
AngloGerman Manchester
Refuge and Reparation
Janet Wolff(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 26. May 2026
Book
Hardback
176 pages
978-1-5261-8547-1 (ISBN)
Description
The essays in this book discuss the lives of Germans living in Manchester, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, combining historical study with personal and autobiographical material. Chapters are devoted to Frederick Engels, Fanny Lewald, Rabbi Felix Carlebach and W. G. Sebald, with additional discussion of Elizabeth Gaskell and the Manchester writer Geraldine Jewsbury. One chapter focuses on Jewish refugees from Nazism who set up new industries in Manchester, including the author's father. The final chapter takes up the theme of reparation, which runs through the book, relating the work of non-Jewish Germans engaged in the project of 'making amends' in their own country for the crimes of an earlier generation. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
20 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
349 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-8547-1 (9781526185471)
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Person
Janet Wolff is Professor Emerita of Cultural Sociology at the University of Manchester -- .
Content
Introduction: A German in Manchester
1 Manchester, 1848
2 Manchester, capital of the nineteenth century
3 Fanny Lewald comes to Manchester
4 Scarlett O'Hara's dress
5 The cross purposes of neighbours
6 Lanctan and Lankro
7 Max Ferber, W. G. Sebald, and the persistence of pre-memory in Mancunian exile
8 A Mancunian in Germany -- .
1 Manchester, 1848
2 Manchester, capital of the nineteenth century
3 Fanny Lewald comes to Manchester
4 Scarlett O'Hara's dress
5 The cross purposes of neighbours
6 Lanctan and Lankro
7 Max Ferber, W. G. Sebald, and the persistence of pre-memory in Mancunian exile
8 A Mancunian in Germany -- .