{"pk":45188,"title":"Migration and its Discontents","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The essay discusses some ethnic and racial presumptions which subtend discussions of the recent Israeli migration to Germany, specifically the description of the Israeli presence in Berlin as signifying a “return” of Jews to Europe after the Holocaust. The essay argues that this description perpetuates the grounding of Zionism in the experience of a subject of European origins. Considering a few references to the Israeli presence in Berlin in literary texts by Israeli authors of Middle Eastern origins, the essay follows the ways in which non-European writing may play on, rewrite and dispel the narrative of post-Holocaust reconciliation of Germans and Jews by unearthing Israelis’ status in Germany as “oriental” and their corresponding liminal identification as both “Europeans” and “Arabs.”","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Diaspora"},{"word":"Berlin"},{"word":"Germany"},{"word":"Israel"},{"word":"Israeli"},{"word":"Literature"},{"word":"migration"},{"word":"homeland politics"},{"word":"Cultural Studies"},{"word":"editorial"},{"word":"cultural memory"},{"word":"Holocaust"},{"word":"Zionism"},{"word":"German-Israeli relations"},{"word":"migrant literature"},{"word":"Race"},{"word":"Israeli literature"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4mv8d0cv","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Yael","middle_name":"","last_name":"Almog","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2015-12-17T21:25:25Z","date_accepted":"2015-12-17T21:25:25Z","date_published":"2015-01-01T00:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/transit/article/45188/galley/33978/download/"}]}