TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kałczewiak, Mariusz
T1  - When the "Ostjuden" returned
BT  - linguistic continuities in German-language writing about Eastern European jews
JF  - Naharaim : Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte
N2  - This article examines the dynamics that allowed the derogatory term "Ostjuden" to reappear in academic writing in post-Holocaust Germany. This article focuses on the period between 1980's and 2000's, complementing earlier studies that focused on the emergence of the term "Ostjuden" and on the complex representations of Eastern European Jews in Imperial and later Weimar Germany. It shows that, despite its well-evidenced discriminatory history, the term "Ostjuden" re-appeared in the scholarly writing in German and has also found its way into German-speaking public history and journalism. This article calls for applying the adjectival term "osteuropaische Juden" (Eastern European Jews), using a term that neither essentializes Eastern European Jews nor presents them in an oversimplified and uniform manner.
KW  - East European Jews
KW  - Germany
KW  - terminology
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/naha-2020-0015
SN  - 1862-9148
SN  - 1862-9156
VL  - 15
IS  - 2
SP  - 287
EP  - 309
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  -