Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational

Joachim schlör's paper is one of the very few contributions that offer some conceptual ideas on shaping features of the "transnational experience" (220) of German Jews who emigrated after 1933, like the role of (imaginative and factual) maps, of modes of transportation, and of international networks. then again, kerry Wallach's paper turns the perspective around by looking at the dark and pessimistic images of Jewish life in america that three popular works of fiction-by Joseph roth, sholem asch, and Michael Gold-presented to Weimar Jewry in the late 1920s, consequently leading to an documented decline of immigration attempts. finally, atina Grossmann concludes this part with a very personal account of her own family history and its encounters with German restitution claims after the war. this leads her to insights both in the transnational aspects of these restitution processes and in the often overlooked emotional dimension of Jewish migration stories in the twentieth century. [...]a stronger overall focus on conceptual and theoretical aspects would have been a useful addition to the overall impressive spectrum that Three-Way Street opens up. as is, some of the papers, like those by Hertz and remmler, but also by Wallach and Berkowitz, only superficially relate to the...