The Passport as Home

The Passport as Home by Andrei S Markovits

This narrative follows the journey of a Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking Jewish professor who emigrates from Vienna to Columbia and Harvard, navigating a life of rootlessness across five decades, two continents, and significant political and cultural changes while seeking comfort and purpose against the backdrop of post-1945 Europe and America.

"The great Jew­ish his­to­ri­an Salo Baron defined the ​“lachry­mose school of Jew­ish his­to­ri­og­ra­phy,” that long litany of suf­fer­ing and per­se­cu­tion that for many defines Jew­ish life and his­to­ryAndy Markovits’s mem­oir is the anec­dote to that school: a sun­ny, opti­mistic, and uplift­ing read. It doesn’t gloss over the sad­ness of post-War Europe, but it shows how that lost world could pro­duce a vital future and how a state­less, root­less per­son could nonethe­less turn that con­di­tion into a ful­filled life." https://www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/the-passport-as-home-comfort-in-rootlessness

-- Martin Green * Jewish Book Council *

"Perhaps the best that one may hope for sometimes is the richness of a life lived without such a destructive set of emotions, the worth of work that is grounded on logic and evidence, the support of people (as the author generously attests to in this memoir) from whom one can learn and with whom one can share insight and understanding. It is this record and these experiences, perhaps above all, which shine brightest out of this evocative memoir."

-- Philip Spencer * Fathom *

Andrei S. Markovits is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies; Professor of Political Science; Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures; Professor of Sociology at the The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Michael Ignatieff served as President and Rector of CEU between 2016 and 2021. He now is a professor in CEU's history department. Ignatieff comes to CEU after serving as Edward R. Murrow Professor of Practice of the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

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ISBN 13	9789633864210
ISBN 10	9633864216
Title	The Passport as Home
Author	Andrei S Markovits
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Central European University Press
Year published	2021-08-19
Number of pages	328
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