Description
Book SynopsisExplores how multi-generational families and groups have interacted and shaped each other's integration and adaptation in Canadian society, focusing on the experiences, histories, and memories of German immigrants and their descendants.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Heavy Baggage: Memory and Generation in Ethnic History
- Chapter 2 A Flying Piano and Then—Silence: German-Canadian Memories of the Great War
- Chapter 3 One Fuhrer, Two Kings: A Canadian Prime Minister in Nazi Germany and the Dilemma of Responsibility
- Chapter 4 Canada’s Anti-Nazi Sudeten German Refugees and Their Descendants: Difficult Adjustment, Intense Assimilation, and Loss of Political Identity
- Chapter 5 A Transnational Yekkish Identity? Comparing German Jews in Canada and Is
- Chapter 6 The Beginnings of German-Canadian Historiography After the Second World War: The Case of Gottlieb Leibbrandt
- Chapter 7 Gatekeeping in the Lutheran Church: Ethnicity, Generation, and Religion in 1960s Toronto
- Chapter 8 Migration Trajectories and the Construction of Generational Discourses Among Contemporary German Immigrants in Ottawa in the 2000s
- Chapter 9 'We Never Really Talked About It': Second- And Third-Generation German-Canadians' Family Memories of the Holocaust
- Chapter10 Creating Family Legacies: Descendants Memorialize Their German Female Ancestors
- Epilogue What Does it Mean to be 'German-Canadian'? The Challenge of History and the Obligation of Memory
