Germans and Jews after the fall of the wall: the promises and problems of hybridity

Discusses the cultural element of the contemporary German diaspora, examining the ways in which third generation writers articulate an identity that is both German and Jewish in an attempt to create a place in Germany for the German Jew. By historicizing theories of hybridity, tests whether they effect the cultural transformations that proponents claim for them. Discusses the model of 'mischling' which constructed the hybrid as a pathological character, and held the floor in German racial science from the late 1800s until 1945