Abstract

Building on the example of the city of Cernowitz (which in the course of a few decades was ruled by a variety of states: Habsburg Austria, Rumania, the Soviet Union, Ukraine), the author presents a history of European anti-Semitism and nationalism as well as their links to the Jewish national renewal movement (Zionism). This history is seen as a background for the genesis of the Middle-East conflict and the emergence of two nations, the Israelis and the Palestinians, whose respective narratives reveal a shared theme: the wish to overcome traumatic experience by means of politico-religious pledges. This wish for redemption through a new beginning is compared with Freud's notions of reason and the irreversibility of time.

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