Come celebrate the publication of German poet and political scientist Max Czollek’s fierce and funny polemic, De-Integrate! A Jewish Survival Guide for the 21st Century. Czollek argues that Germany's Jews and other minorities should resist the downward pressure to integrate themselves into the (white, Christian) mainstream. The book speaks eloquently to the situation of minorities and refugees in America and the world over who've been assimilated with reluctance, neglect, or outright hatred or violence—and only with the expectation that they and their descendants will modify their "ethnic" culture and behavior to fit in. Instead, it is through embracing our radical differences that we can realize our pluralistic potential and counter the dangerous rise of nationalism.
event dates
Jan 8, 3 PM EST: Goethe Institut NYC with Leo Baeck Institute (New York, NY)
Jan 10, 7 PM EST: UNC Asheville, Dept. of German Studies (Asheville, NC)
Jan 12, 2:30 PM EST: University of Michigan, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Dept. of German (Ann Arbor, MI)
Jan 14, 2 PM PST: 2727 California Street (Berkeley, CA)
Jan 15, 6 PM PST: Manny’s with Goethe Institut San Francisco (San Francisco, CA)
Jan 17: UCLA Dept. of European Languages and Transcultural Studies (Los Angeles, CA)
Jan 17: Thomas Mann House (Pacific Palisades, CA)
Jan 19, 11 AM PST: University of British Columbia, Dept. of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Jan 19, 7 PM PST: JCC Jewish Book Festival, Canada (Vancouver, BC)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Max Czollek is a poet, publicist, and political scientist. He received his doctorate from the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technische Universität Berlin and is particularly well known for his theatrical and essayistic work surrounding memory culture, integration, and Jewish identity in post-war Germany.
ABOUT THE Translator
Dr. Jon Cho-Polizzi is an educator, activist, and freelance literary translator, and a Collegiate Fellow and Assistant Professor of German at the University of Michigan. Cho-Polizzi received his PhD in German and Medieval Studies from UC Berkeley after studying Translation, History, and Literature in Heidelberg and Santa Cruz. He lives and works between Ann Arbor, Northern California, and Berlin.
By Max Czollek
Translated from the German by Jon Cho-Polizzi
A controversial, best-selling polemic in Germany, De-Integrate! is a battle cry against Jewish assimilation into a dominant culture that seeks to paint over the past—and a handbook for minorities on how to embrace their difference and resist rising nationalism, antisemitism, xenophobia, and racism.
Hardcover ISBN: 9781632063182
Publication date: Jan 10, 2023