German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion - Angela Kuttner Botelho - Bog

The volume explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the medium of one family grappling with its fateful Jewish origins in a post-Holocaust, post-exilic milieu. Engaging contemporary scholarship to examine archival family texts and interviews traversing three generations, the book traces the impact of a contested Jewish identity on the deconstruction and reconstruction of the Jewish self.