Being Jewish (and) in Love von Ina Schaum | Two and a Half Stories about Jews, Germans and Love | ISBN 9783955653804

Being Jewish (and) in Love

Two and a Half Stories about Jews, Germans and Love

von Ina Schaum, Vorwort von Eva Lezzi
Buchcover Being Jewish (and) in Love | Ina Schaum | EAN 9783955653804 | ISBN 3-95565-380-3 | ISBN 978-3-95565-380-4
»Boldly, she uses casestudies to depict what „doing being Jewish“ means for young Jews in connection to their intimatelove relationships. The outcome is refreshing; it does full justice to Jewish life-worlds in Germany.« Forum Qualitative Research 22 (2021)

Being Jewish (and) in Love

Two and a Half Stories about Jews, Germans and Love

von Ina Schaum, Vorwort von Eva Lezzi
What does it mean to be in search of love as a young Jewish adult in Germany? How are closeness and distance experienced, negotiated and shaped in romantic encounters? In which contexts could it matter if the other person is Jewish? In the book, the author discusses these questions with the help of two stories of young Jewish adults. Based on biographical interviews, the author gives an insight into the complexity of the social, emotional and biographical dimensions that are negotiated with the desire for a love relationship. Interwoven with this, the author uses autoethnographic fragments to reflect her own history and positioning as non-Jewish majority German and the ethical questions that arise for her research and writing.