Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany /

Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany / / ed. by Michael Meng, Jay Howard Geller.

Seventy-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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
MitwirkendeR:
Cronin, Joseph,
Dekel, Irit,
Freimüller, Tobias,
Garloff, Katja,
Gelbin, Cathy S.,
Geller, Jay Howard,
Goschler, Constantin,
Lustig, Jason,
Meng, Michael,
Rürup, Miriam,
Sinn, Andrea A.,
Smith, Jill Suzanne,
Walther, Alexander,
HerausgeberIn:
Geller, Jay Howard,
Meng, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (278 p.) :; 6 b&w photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • The Politics of Jewish Representation in Early West Germany
  • 2 We Have the Right to Exist Here: Jewish Politics and the Challenges of Wiedergutmachung in Post-Holocaust Germany
  • 3 Bernhard Brilling and the Reconstruction of Jewish Archives in Postwar Germany
  • 4 Whose Heritage? Early Postwar German-Jewish History as Remigrants’ History—the Case of Hamburg
  • 5 Migration, Memory, and New Beginnings: The Postwar Jewish Community in Frankfurt am Main
  • 6 Helmut Eschwege and Jewish Life in the German Democratic Republic
  • 7 Learning Years on the Path to Dissidence: Stefan Heym’s Friendship with Robert Havemann and Wolf Biermann
  • 8 Ernst Bloch’s Eschatological Marxism
  • 9 Diasporic Place-Making in Barbara Honigmann
  • 10 Tur Tur’s Lantern on a Tiny Island: New Historiographical Perspectives on East German Jewish History
  • 11 Community Responses to the Immigration of Russian-Speaking Jews to Germany, 1990–2006
  • 12 Policing the East: The New Jewish Hero in Dominik Graf ’s Crime Drama Im Angesicht des Verbrechens
  • 13 “You Are My Liberty”: On the Negotiation of Holocaust and Other Memories for Israelis in Berlin
  • EPILOGUE
  • NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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