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In the 1930s, after the Nazis came to power in Germany, tens of thousands of Jews immigrated to Eretz-Israel. Many of them kept on missing their former homeland and culture, while simultaneously despising Germany. This chapter analyzes the complex identity of these Jews, who had to leave Germany, but could not really detach themselves from the homeland that betrayed them, as reflected in the film The Flat (2011). In the film, Director Arnon Goldfinger reveals a family secret: his grandparents, Kurt and Gerda Tuchler, maintained close contacts with a Nazi couple, the Von Mildensteins, before and after the Holocaust. In a world of post-Holocaust, the analysis of the film tells the story of a transgenerational transfer of the trauma, and its different effect on three generations.

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Gay-Tex-Mex: Autoethnographic Vignettes

Culture Studies &#x2194 Critical Methodologies ◽

10.1177/1532708620970660 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 153270862097066

Author(s):

Johnny Saldaña

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Adolescent Development ◽

Mexican American ◽

Ethnic Discrimination ◽

Growing Up ◽

Late Adulthood ◽

Family Secret ◽

Emergent Identity ◽

The 1960S

A series of autoethnographic narrative vignettes recount the author’s personal memories from his upbringing in Texas as a Mexican American and his emergent identity as a gay man. The vignettes begin with episodes that profile Texas culture during the 1960s–1970s with an emphasis on cowboy and Hispanic cultures. The vignettes then recount specific boyhood moments with the author’s parents and their influence on his adolescent development as a closeted gay Hispanic. Following are brief narratives about ethnic discrimination experienced during secondary school. The stories then profile his training as a theatre artist and educator, and how gay Hispanic cultures blossomed during his university years, despite his closeted relationship with his parents. The piece concludes with a moment from late adulthood when he learns an undisclosed family secret, and the author reflects on how growing up in “Gay-Tex-Mex” cultures influenced his identity.

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Orphan Cytokine Reveals IL-17 Family Secret

Immunity ◽

10.1016/j.immuni.2011.10.008 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 35 (4) ◽

pp. 498-500 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Christopher J. Haines ◽

Daniel J. Cua

Keyword(s):

Family Secret

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Transgenerational transfer of family secret - case presentation

European Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/s0924-9338(11)72025-9 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 26 (S2) ◽

pp. 316-316

Author(s):

N. Kravic

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Second Generation ◽

First Grade ◽

Protective Function ◽

Case Presentation ◽

Complete Family ◽

Developmental Age ◽

The Family ◽

Family Secret

ObjectiveWe wanted to show how the family secret of adoption can influence even second generation of members.Case studyGirl 15 years of age, high school first grade lived in complete family with older brother and younger sister. Father was a rigid structure, difficult in communication with other family members except youngest daughter. For a first check up she had come with her mother (previously psychiatry treated of depression). Girl was very depressed (CDI 24), her appearance expressed hopelessness, repeatedly thought about suicide, did not accomplish anything she wanted, to study for nurse, or an actress. Two years ago looking through some papers, she had find out that her mother was adopted as a baby, that changed her all life, relationship toward grandparents, could not study, focus on anything else. Just a few days ago she admitted to her mother that she knows a secret about her origins. Her mother also find out that she was adopted when she was 14 (the same age when her daughter find it out), some girls in the school told that to her. Finding out the truth was very devastating for her too.ConclusionTrans - generational transfer of family secret came to resonance of unconscious and girl find out the truth almost in the same age as mother. It has had stressful effect, but also influence trust, and cause anger and feeling of exclusion. Silence has aggressive except protective function. Adolescence as vulnerable developmental age made this girl more sensitive for this.

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Unicum: A Drink with a Past

Gastronomica The Journal of Food and Culture ◽

10.1525/gfc.2006.6.4.78 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 78-82 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

carolyn báánfalvi

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

18Th Century ◽

The Other ◽

Imperial Court ◽

Family Secret ◽

History Of ◽

Herbs And Spices

Unicum is a national institution in Hungary, and has a long history that in some ways mirrors the history of modern Hungary itself. The story of Unicum is the story of the Zwack family, who has owned the company since the end of the 18th century (except for the 40 year period when it was nationalized by the Communists). Dr. Zwack, a physician for the Imperial Court of the Austro-Hungarian Dual Monarchy, is credited with creating the drink to alleviate the royal family's digestion problems. But it didn't take long for the drink to take hold on the rest of the country. The Zwack family--headed by Peter Zwack--runs the company today--which also produces high-end palinka, wine, and other types of liquor. So, what is Unicum? It's a thick, black, goopy concoction, made from more than 40 herbs and spices. The exact composition is a carefully guarded family secret which was stored in a safe deposit box in New York during the Communist era. Part of the mixture is macerated for thirty days in water, while the other part is distilled. Then, in a process that has remained almost unchanged for more than 200 years, both are blended and aged in oak casks for six months.

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Six Found Poems

Language and Literacy ◽

10.20360/g2dg69 ◽

1944 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Alison Pryer

Keyword(s):

Jewish Heritage ◽

Irish Identity ◽

Family Secret ◽

Accidental Discovery

This group of six found poems explores the interrelated themes of identity, hybridity and liminality. They grew from a period of reading that the author undertook in order to more fully understand her family’s Anglo-Irish identity, and the significance of her “accidental” discovery of a Jewish heritage – a long-buried family secret.

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