Darja Klingenberg
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Darja Klingenberg's work is shaped by her Ashkenazi Jewish, Soviet Central Asian, and GDR German family histories, as well as her studies of sociology, feminist theory, migration, and critical race theory in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Glasgow, and New York. In her research and teaching at Europa University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), she explores the entanglemts of class, gender and different forms of racism and antisemitism in Europe. Klingenberg's study, 'Materialism and Melancholy: On the Dwelling of Russian-Speaking Middle-Class Migrants, recounts and analyses the efforts and strategies of people who migrated to Germany as Eastern European labour or education migrants, so-called Jewish quota refugees or ethnic German repatriates, to make themselves at home and appropriate social space in Germany. Her recent scholarly and public work examines the role of Eastern European and Soviet Jewish memories in transnational and local Jewish and non-Jewish German memory culture: She looks at the faded histories of Eastern European Jewish migrants to Germany or the soviet- Jewish evacuation to Central Asia.
