Passport as Home

Comfort in Rootlessness

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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A Scholar's Quest for Home and IdentityExperience the remarkable story of a Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking Jewish professor. From Vienna to Columbia and Harvard, he navigates a life marked by rootlessness, seeking comfort and purpose. His journey unfolds against the backdrop of five decades, two continents, and significant political and cultural changes. As we follow his pursuit of a home, we gain insight into the critical developments of post-1945 Europe and America. Markovits's emigration experiences, first from Romania to Vienna and later from Vienna to New York, shed light on the challenges he faced. His journey offers a panoramic view of the forces shaping the latter half of the 20th century. Despite America's flaws, he finds it a beacon of academic excellence, intellectual openness, cultural diversity, and religious tolerance—qualities that Europe lacked. Explore the complexities of identity, culture, and the universal search for belonging in this captivating narrative.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-08-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:478 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:Central European University Press
ISBN:9789633864210

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Andrei S. Markovits is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies; Professor of Political Science; Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Professor of Sociology at the The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Michael Ignatieff served as President and Rector of CEU between 2016 and 2021. He now is a professor in CEU's history department. Ignatieff comes to CEU after serving as Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice of the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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"Markovits says his passport is his home. Yet there is an unmistakable warmth with which he describes the various academic institutions that have welcomed and supported him. He also describes the pleasures of discovering a new form of Jewish identity and learning to express that identity in ways that were unavailable in the Timişoara of his childhood. The 'un-belonging' he values does not seem to be the right description for his adult condition. Nor perhaps is 'rootlessness,' which suggests the lack of something life-giving and generative. Maybe we should see his story as one of gaining a new grounding in institutions and social bonds that could afford him the very independence and agency—in short, the freedom—he had long prized."

Innehållsförteckning

ForewordMichael IgnatieffPreface and AcknowledgementsChapter 1. Origins: The Virtues of RootlessnessChapter 2. A Paean to Tante Trude (Who Might or Might Not Have Been a Nazi)Chapter 3. Four Friendships: Discovering America in ViennaChapter 4. Daphne Scheer, Real Madrid and Internazionale Milano (Inter Milan): The Personal Meets the PoliticalChapter 5. The Rolling Stones Play Vienna (Resulting in Bodily Harm to the City’s Jews)Chapter 6. Arrival in New York: The Dream Meets the RealityChapter 7. Columbia 1968: How the World – and Andy – Changed in a Single YearChapter 8. Kiki: Big Politics and Little AndyChapter 9. The Grateful Dead: My American FamilyChapter 10. Harvard’s Center for European Studies: The Interloper Finds a HomeChapter 11. Dogs: The Rescuer Rescues HimselfChapter 12. Germany: Admiration for the Bundesrepublik, Discomfort with DeutschlandEpilogue