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Becoming a Jew by Becoming a German: The Newest Jewish Writing from the "East"
- Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
- Purdue University Press
- Volume 25, Number 1, Fall 2006
- pp. 16-32
- 10.1353/sho.2006.0125
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The development of a new Jewish culture in Germany since 1990 is parallel to the new Jewish culture beginning to appear from the Russian Jewish community in the United States and Israel. The context, however, makes this writing and these writers unique in their often contradictory dealing with what it means to be a Jew and what it means to be a German.