Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction: Trauma and Displacement -- 1. The Inability to Return: German Jewish Intellectuals after the Holocaust -- ESSAY, EXILE, EFFICACY -- READING HEINE, READING HISTORY -- GÜNTHER ANDERS'S UNCANNY RETURN -- JEAN AMÉRY'S RESENTMENTS -- 2. Peter Weiss's Skeptical Cosmopolitanism -- ENTERING THE WEST GERMAN PUBLIC SPHERE -- REMNANTS OF COSMOPOLITANISM: WEISS'S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL NOVELS -- THE SEARCH FOR A DIASPORIC COMMUNITY: DAS GESPRÄCH DER DREI GEHENDEN -- CRITIQUE AND DISTANCE -- 3. Nelly Sachs and the Myth of the "German-Jewish Symbiosis" -- THE CONSTRUCTION OF JEWISH WOMEN AS CONCILIATORY FIGURES IN POSTWAR WEST GERMANY -- MEMORY, MYTH, MEDIATION -- THE EICHMANN TRIAL AND THE RETURN OF HISTORY -- 4. Paul Celan's Revisiting of Eastern Europe -- THE PLAGIARISM CHARGE -- REMAPPING THE BUKOVINA -- UNSETTLING TRADITION: CELAN AND JEWISH MYSTICISM -- NO SENSE OF AN ENDING -- READING PLACE NAMES IN CELAN -- Conclusion: Toward the Possibility of a Diasporic Community -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.