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OverviewSeventy-five years after the Holocaust, 100,000 Jews live in Germany. Their community is diverse and vibrant, and their mere presence in Germany is symbolically important. In Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany, scholars of German-Jewish history, literature, film, television, and sociology illuminate important aspects of Jewish life in Germany from 1949 to the present day. In West Germany, the development of representative bodies and research institutions reflected a desire to set down roots, despite criticism from Jewish leaders in Israel and the Diaspora. In communist East Germany, some leftist Jewish intellectuals played a prominent role in society, and their experience reflected the regime’s fraught relationship with Jewry. Since 1990, the growth of the Jewish community through immigration from the former Soviet Union and Israel have both brought heightened visibility in society and challenged preexisting notions of Jewish identity in the former “land of the perpetrators.” Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jay Howard Geller , Jay Howard Geller , Michael Meng , Michael MengPublisher: Rutgers University Press Imprint: Rutgers University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.004kg ISBN: 9781978800717ISBN 10: 1978800711 Pages: 276 Publication Date: 14 February 2020 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAn original and important book. --Guy Miron If Jews are the canaries in the coalmine of German democracy, then this book chronicles the strength of their song. Seventy-five years after the Holocaust, these essays lay bare the trauma, conflicts, and remarkable resilience of Germany's Jews. They are a must-read for anyone interested in the health of German democracy and its Jewish community. --Jonathan R. Zatlin author of The Currency of Socialism: Money and Political Culture in East Germany A most welcome addition to the field, Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany expands on the existing literature in crucial ways, allowing us to understand better the communal affairs, ideological proclivities, and identity politics of Jews in both Germanies after 1945. --Anthony D. Kauders author of Democratization and the Jews: Munich 1945-1965 An original and important book. --Guy Miron A most welcome addition to the field, Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany expands on the existing literature in crucial ways, allowing us to understand better the communal affairs, ideological proclivities, and identity politics of Jews in both Germanies after 1945. --Anthony D. Kauders author of Democratization and the Jews: Munich 1945-1965 Author InformationJay Howard Geller is Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction (Cornell University Press, 2019) and Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953 (Cambridge University Press, 2005), as well as co-editor Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational (University of Michigan Press, 2016). Michael Meng is Associate Professor of History at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. He is the author of Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland (Harvard University Press, 2011) and co-editor of Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland (Indiana University Press 2015) and co-editor of Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective (Berghahn Books, 2017), among other publications on modern European intellectual and cultural history. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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