Jews In Contemporary East Germany
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Jews in Contemporary East Germany
Author | : Robin Ostow |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 1989-06-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781349101542 |
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This book is the result of a series of interviews of Robin Ostow with Jews in the German Democratic Republic. For the first time since the founding of the East German state in 1949 Jews have been allowed to speak openly. Jewish men and women of different ages were interviewed.
Sojourners
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803212550 |
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This absorbing book of interviews takes one to the heart of modern German Jewish history. Of the eleven German Jews interviewed, four are from West Berlin, and seven are from East Berlin. The interviews provide an exceptionally varied and intimate portrait of Jewish experience in twentieth-century Germany. There are first-hand accounts of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi era, the Holocaust, and the divided Germany of the Cold War era. There are also vivid descriptions of the new united Germany, with its alarming resurgence of xenophobia and anti-Semitism. Some of the men and women interviewed affirm their dual German and Jewish identities with vigor. There is the West Berliner, for instance, who proclaims, "I am a German Jew. I want to live here". Others describe the impossibility of being both German and Jewish: "I don't have anything in common with the whole German people". Many confess to profound ambivalence, such as the East Berliner who feels that he is neither a native nor a foreigner in Germany: "If someone asks me, 'Who are you?' then I can only say, 'I am a fish out of water.'"
Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany
Author | : Jay Howard Geller,Michael Meng |
Publsiher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2020-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781978800731 |
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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 important aspects of Jewish life in Germany from 1949 to the present day. In West Germany, the development of representative bodies and research institutions reflected a desire to set down roots, despite criticism from Jewish leaders in Israel and the Diaspora. In communist East Germany, some leftist Jewish intellectuals played a prominent role in society, and their experience reflected the regime’s fraught relationship with Jewry. Since 1990, the growth of the Jewish community through immigration from the former Soviet Union and Israel have both brought heightened visibility in society and challenged preexisting notions of Jewish identity in the former “land of the perpetrators.”
East German Film and the Holocaust
Author | : Elizabeth Ward |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2021-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781789207484 |
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East Germany’s ruling party never officially acknowledged responsibility for the crimes committed in Germany’s name during the Third Reich. Instead, it cast communists as both victims of and victors over National Socialist oppression while marginalizing discussions of Jewish suffering. Yet for the 1977 Academy Awards, the Ministry of Culture submitted Jakob der Lügner – a film focused exclusively on Jewish victimhood that would become the only East German film to ever be officially nominated. By combining close analyses of key films with extensive archival research, this book explores how GDR filmmakers depicted Jews and the Holocaust in a country where memories of Nazi persecution were highly prescribed, tightly controlled and invariably political.
Being Jewish in 21st Century Germany
Author | : Olaf Glöckner,Haim Fireberg |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2015-09-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110350159 |
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An unexpected immigration wave of Jews from the former Soviet Union mostly in the 1990s has stabilized and enlarged Jewish life in Germany. Jewish kindergartens and schools were opened, and Jewish museums, theaters, and festivals are attracting a wide audience. No doubt: Jews will continue to live in Germany. At the same time, Jewish life has undergone an impressing transformation in the second half of the 20th century– from rejection to acceptance, but not without disillusionments and heated debates. And while the ‘new Jews of Germany,’ 90 percent of them of Eastern European background, are already considered an important factor of the contemporary Jewish diaspora, they still grapple with the shadow of the Holocaust, with internal cultural clashes and with difficulties in shaping a new collective identity. What does it mean to live a Jewish life in present-day Germany? How are Jewish thoughts, feelings, and practices reflected in contemporary arts, literature, and movies? What will remain of the former German Jewish cultural heritage? Who are the new Jewish elites, and how successful is the fight against anti-Semitism? This volume offers some answers.
Jewish Claims Against East Germany
Author | : Angelika Timm |
Publsiher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789633865712 |
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This is the first comprehensive history of Jewish negotiations with East Germany regarding restitution and reparations for Nazi war crimes. Angelika Timm analyzes the politics of old and new anti-Semitism and the context in which they grew under the officially propagated ideology of antifascism. Investigating the mass of unpublished, newly available archival data from the United States, Israel, and the former German Democratic Republic, and more than forty personal interviews, Timm fills a critical gap in the scholarship on postwar Germany. She analyzes the role of the Holocaust and the image of Jews in the historical consciousness and political culture of East Germany and chronicles the efforts of Jewish organizations, especially the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, to negotiate reparations with the East German state. The unique relationship between ideology and Realpolitik defined the manner in which East Germany confronted the crimes of its past and allowed anti-Semitism to reemerge.
German Attitudes Toward Jews in the Immediate Aftermath of the Second World War
Author | : Kathryn K. Moehringer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : WISC:89070233556 |
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Three Way Street
Author | : Jay Howard Geller,Leslie Morris |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2016-09-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472130122 |
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Tracing Germany's significance as an essential crossroads and incubator for modern Jewish culture