Being Jewish in the New Germany

Index

Abraham, Itty, 160 Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, 151 Adass Yisroel, 7, 8 Adelson, Leslie, 88, 107 Adenauer, Konrad, 22, 134, 135, 147 Africa/Africans, 71, 96, 156 African Americans, 170, 173 Afro-Germans, 61, 101 Agency for Jewish Education, 115 Agudat Israel, 114 Aish ha-Torah, 166 Albanians, 93 aliyah (immigration to Israel), 143, 159 Alles auf Zucker! (film), 173 America. See United States American Academy, Berlin, 148 Americanization, 31 American-Jewish community, 136; groups, 133; influence, 84; interests, 14; leaders/ officials, 147; organizations, 14, 114, 128, 135, 145, 147, 151; public, 25 American Jewish Committee (AJC), 5, 106, 114, 123, 127, 128, 135, 136, 144–147, 149, 150, 158; Berlin office of, 106, 144, 145, 146; fifth anniversary, 146; lay leaders of, 55; Transatlantic Institute, Brussels, 145 American Jewish Yearbook, 43 American Joint Distribution Committee, 114 Anatolia, 87 Anderson, Benedict, 156 Angola/Angolans, 90, 99, 103 anti-Americanism, 21, 112 Anti-Defamation League, New York, 126 antifascism, 23, 24, 94, 97, 98, 157 anti-Israel opinion, 111, 117, 118 anti-Jewish opinion, 82, 89, 116, 117, 128 anti-Semitism, 14, 34, 75, 83, 105, 111, 125, 127, 130, 146, 173; accusations of, 27, 36; blatant, 13, 42; combating, 84, 96, 108, 111, 115, 127, 129, 130, 166; discourse of, 36; discussion of, 28; eliminationist , 33, 34, 92; European, 12, 113; feelings of, 124; forms of, 91; German, 12, 19, 33; incidents of, 15, 19, 57; Internet sites, 166; as an issue, 10, 18, 20, 21, 32, 35, 52, 62, 89, 91, 93, 98, 110, 114, 117, 122, 128, 136, 140, 144, 145, 147, 164, 165, 172, 174; issues linked to, 126, 142; language of, 97; “lite,” 75; new, 83, 84, 105, 116, 124, 127, 128, 129, 171, 172; policies, 53; renewal/outbreak of, 29, 90, 112; rise of, 12, 57, 64, 127, 146, 168; Soviet, 53; specter of, 14; statements/ slurs, 5, 83, 84, 91, 113, 125, 126, 131, 134, 165; U.S. media focus on, 15 anti-Zionism, 10, 12, 18, 21, 125, 130 Appadurai, Arjun, 155, 156 Arabs, 24, 32, 89, 107, 110, 112, 113, 124, 151 Aryan race, 16, 19, 88 Ascheron, Neil, 161 Ashkenazi/Ashkenazim, 1, 82, 141, 152 Asylanten. See asylum seekers asylum law, 43, 86, 103 asylum seekers, 17, 86, 90, 93, 94, 96, 104 attacks: on asylum seekers, 93; on foreigners , 92, 94; on Jews, 12, 14, 93, 129, 130, 131; racist/right-wing, 12, 94, 103, 118; on synagogues, 15, 42, 125; terrorist, 112, 138, 144; on Turks, 86, 90, 92, 100, 105, 113 Aufbau, Der (newspaper), 165 Auerbach, Jerold S., 159 Auschwitz(-Birkenau), 28, 32, 35, 37, 86, 120, 124, 129, 139 Auschwitz trials (1963–1968), 23 199 I n d e x Ausländer (foreigner), 67, 87, 95, 96, 100; Ausländerfeindlichkeit (see xenophobia); Ausländerliteratur, 67 Aussiedler (“ethnic” Germans from Eastern Europe), 94, 99. See also Heimatvertriebene Austria, 55, 66, 126 authenticity, 2, 3, 52, 53, 65, 120, 171 Babylon (journal), 76 Bade, Klaus, 87 bagels, 1, 3, 5, 57, 79, 123, 162 Baker, Rabbi Andrew, 128, 145 Baltic states, 41, 123 Barak, Prime Minister Ehud, 135, 158 Bar Kokhba, 154 bar/bat mitzvahs, 50, 52, 151 Bauer, Yehuda, 128 Becker, Franziska, 52, 53 Beckermann, Ruth, 66 Begin, Menachem, 134 Beilin, Yossi, 158 Belgium, 100, 126 Benatoff, Cobi, 113 Ben-Gurion, David, 134, 135, 158 Benz, Wolfgang, 38 Berenbaum, Michael, 31 Berger, Deidre, 144, 145, 147, 150 Berlin: as capital of Germany, 13, 130, 138, 161; demonstrations in, 96; as diverse city, 3, 71, 132; Jewish Community (see Jewish Community, Berlin); Jews in, 6–9, 29, 40, 59, 63, 129, 144–146, 148, 150–152, 169, 170; monuments/ museums in, 5, 10, 22, 36, 77, 78, 123, 174; OSCE Conference in, 112, 128, 130, 142, 147; Turks in, 86, 87, 89, 105, 108 Berlin Blockade, 139 Berlin-Brandenburg Turkish Federation (TBB), 105, 107 Berlin Declaration, OSCE (2004), 108, 128 Berlin Wall, 9, 11, 36, 40, 64, 87, 99, 137, 145, 154; fall of, 12, 22, 28, 29, 64, 137, 154 Berlusconi, Silvio, 118 Bet Deborah, 8, 115 Bewältigung der Vergangenheit (coming to grips with the past), 34 Biehl, Jody K., 173 Bildungsroman, Jewish, 76 Bildungstradition (tradition of [moral] education), 49 Biller, Maxim, 66 Bitburg, 26, 27 Blaustein, Jacob, 158 Blumenthal, Michael, 78, 80, 148 Blut und Boden (blood and soil), 101 B’nai Brith Anti-Defamation League, 136; in Europe, 115; International, 114 Bodemann, Y. Michal, 15, 63, 105, 141, 161, 162, 163...