ISBN:
1978800738
,
9781978800731
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Rebuilding Jewish life in Germany
DDC:
305.892/4043
Keywords:
Jews History 1945-1990
;
Jews History 1990-
;
Jews Intellectual life
;
Jews
;
History
;
Jews ; Intellectual life
;
Ethnic relations
;
Germany Ethnic relations
;
Germany
Abstract:
"Featuring essays by scholars of history, literature, television, and sociology, Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany illuminates important aspects of Jewish life in Germany since 1949, including institution building, the internal dynamics and changing demographics of the Jewish community, and the central role of Jewish writers and public intellectuals."--
Abstract:
Introduction / Jay Howard Geller and Michael Meng -- Chapter 1: The Politics of Jewish Representation in Early West Germany / Jay Howard Geller -- Chapter 2: We have the right to exist here: Jewish Politics and the Challenges of Wiedergutmachung in Post-Holocaust Germany / Andrea A. Sinn -- Chapter 3: Bernhard Brilling and the Reconstruction of Jewish Archives in Postwar Germany / Jason Lustig -- Chapter 4: Whose Heritage?: Early Postwar German-Jewish History as Remigrants' History -- The Case of Hamburg / Miriam Rurup -- Chapter 5: Migration, Memory and New Beginnings: The Postwar Jewish Community in Frankfurt am Main / Tobias Freimuller -- Chapter 6: Helmut Eschwege and Jewish Life in the German Democratic Republic / Alexander Walther -- Chapter 7: Learning Years on the Path to Dissidence: Stefan Heym's Friendship with Robert Havemann and Wolf Biermann / Cathy S. Gelbin -- Chapter 8: Ernst Bloch's Eschatological Marxism / Michael Meng -- Chapter 9: Diasporic Place-Making in Barbara Honigmann / Katja Garloff -- Chapter 10: Tur Tur's Lantern on a Tiny Island: New Historiographical Perspectives on East German Jewish History / Constantin Goschler -- Chapter 11: Community Responses to the Immigration of Russian-Speaking Jews to Germany, 1990-2006 / Joseph Cronin -- Chapter 12: Policing the East: The New Jewish Hero in Dominik Graf's Crime Drama Im Angesicht des Verbrechens / Jill Suzanne Smith -- Chapter 13: "You are my liberty:" On the Negotiation of Holocaust and Other Memories for Israelis in Berlin / Irit Dekel -- Epilogue / Jay Howard Geller and Michael Meng
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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