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Central European University Press
A Scholar's Quest for Home and Identity
Experience the remarkable story of a Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking Jewish professor. From Vienna to Columbia and Harvard, he navigates a life marked by rootlessness, seeking comfort and purpose. His journey unfolds against the backdrop of five decades, two continents, and significant political and cultural changes.
As we follow his pursuit of a... Read more
Foreword Michael Ignatieff Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Origins: The Virtues of Rootlessness Chapter 2. A Paean to Tante Trude (Who Might or Might Not Have Been a Nazi) Chapter 3. Four Friendships: Discovering America in Vienna Chapter 4. Daphne Scheer, Real Madrid and Internazionale Milano (Inter Milan): The Personal Meets the Political Chapter 5. The Rolling Stones Play Vienna (Resulting in Bodily Harm to the City's Jews) Chapter 6. Arrival in New York: The Dream Meets the Reality Chapter 7. Columbia 1968: How the World - and Andy - Changed in a Single Year Chapter 8. Kiki: Big Politics and Little Andy Chapter 9. The Grateful Dead: My American Family Chapter 10. Harvard's Center for European Studies: The Interloper Finds a Home Chapter 11. Dogs: The Rescuer Rescues Himself Chapter 12. Germany: Admiration for the Bundesrepublik, Discomfort with Deutschland-Epilogue.
Biography
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.
