In this Book
- A History of Jews in Germany since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: Indiana University Press
Originally published in German in 2012, this comprehensive history of Jewish life in postwar Germany provides a systematic account of Jews and Judaism from the Holocaust to the early 21st century by leading experts of modern German-Jewish history. Beginning in the immediate postwar period with a large concentration of Eastern European Holocaust survivors stranded in Germany, the book follows Jews during the relative quiet period of the fifties and early sixties during which the foundations of new Jewish life were laid.
Brenner's volume goes on to address the rise of anti-Israel sentiments after the Six-Day War as well as the beginnings of a critical confrontation with Germany's Nazi past in the late sixties and early seventies, noting the relatively small numbers of Jews living in Germany up to the 1990s. The contributors argue that these Jews were a powerful symbolic presence in German society and sent a meaningful signal to the rest of the world that Jewish life was possible again in Germany after the Holocaust.
This landmark history presents a comprehensive account of reconstruction of a multifaceted Jewish life in a country that carries the legacy of being at the epicenter of the Holocaust.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- Part One: 1945–1949 Way Station
- 1. Displaced Persons
- pp. 57-84
- 2. An Autonomous Society
- pp. 85-111
- 3. German Jews
- pp. 112-129
- 4. Dissolution and Establishment
- pp. 130-144
- Part Two: 1950–1967 Consolidation
- 5. Institutional New Beginning
- pp. 147-175
- 6. Religion and Culture
- pp. 176-206
- 7. German Jews or Jews in Germany?
- pp. 207-227
- 8. After the Deed
- pp. 228-256
- Part Three: 1968–1989 Alignments
- 10. The Jewish Community
- pp. 289-324
- 11. The Jews in German Society
- pp. 325-376
- Part Four: 1990–2012 New Directions
- 12. The Russian-Jewish Immigration
- pp. 379-416
- 13. A New German Jewry?
- pp. 417-432
- References
- pp. 445-482