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1.

The Jews in Germany, 1945-1993: The Building of a Minority » Read Now
by Michael Cohn. 132 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Most Jews who now live in Germany have lived elsewhere. They are neither the remnant of those who survived the Holocaust nor those who are in transit to Israel or the United States. They are a disparate but vibrant and growing community of over 80,000 people. Forty thousand of them are members of...
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Most Jews who now live in Germany have lived elsewhere. They are neither the remnant of those who survived the Holocaust nor those who are in transit to Israel or the United States. They are a disparate but vibrant and growing community of over 80,000 people. Forty thousand of them are members of official Jewish communities in today's Germany. Because of the Nazi past, this proportionately small number of individuals plays an out-of-scale role in German politics and world consciousness. As a study in the formation of minority communities within European national matrices, Cohn's work has interest for sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists as well. It is the only published work on the Jewish community in Germany today.
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Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification » Read Now
by Hermann Kurthen, Werner Bergmann, Rainer Erb. 318 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Since unification, Germany has experienced profound changes, including the reawakening of xenophobic hate crime, antisemitic incidents, and racist violence. This book presents the most recent research conducted by a team of American and German experts in political science, sociology, mass...
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Since unification, Germany has experienced profound changes, including the reawakening of xenophobic hate crime, antisemitic incidents, and racist violence. This book presents the most recent research conducted by a team of American and German experts in political science, sociology, mass communication, and history. They analyze the degrees of antisemitism, xenophobia, remembrance, and Holocaust knowledge in German public opinion; the groups and organizations that propagate such prejudice and hate; and the German, American, and Jewish perceptions of, and reactions to, these phenomena.
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Germans and Jews since the Holocaust: The Changing Situation in West Germany » Read Now
by Anson Rabinbach, Jack Zipes. 365 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...of the world Jewish population. Jews in Germany after 1945 largely fell into...population. This depletion of Jews in Germany has led to the transformation...basic...
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Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945 » Read Now
by Marion A. Kaplan. 529 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
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Evolving Jewish Identities in German Culture: Borders and Crossings » Read Now
by Linda E. Feldman, Diana Orendi. 210 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Jewish identity in German culture remains in a critical state of flux. Analyzing its construction and perception in public discourse, the contributors of this volume discuss the works of a number of authors--from Kafka to new writers such as Irene Dische and Maxim Biller. In addition, topics covered...
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Jewish identity in German culture remains in a critical state of flux. Analyzing its construction and perception in public discourse, the contributors of this volume discuss the works of a number of authors--from Kafka to new writers such as Irene Dische and Maxim Biller. In addition, topics covered include: American-Jewish writers in Germany, minority culture, homosexuality, and Jewish magazines.
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Forgetting the Fuhrer: The Recent History of the Holocaust Denial Movement in Germany, in The Australian Journal of Politics and History » Read Now
by Anthony Long. 13 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...which he established in 1997, about the need for revolution in Germany. Rudolf takes care to highlight his alleged opposition to violence, especially against Jews and...
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Jews and Christians in Germany: A New but Still Troubled Relationship, in Journal of Ecumenical Studies » Read Now
by Fredrick C. Holmgren. 18 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...contact with the Central Council of Jews in Germany. Further, within the Central Committee...meets with the Central Council of Jews in Germany in an effort to promote...
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Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany » Read Now
by Marion A. Kaplan. 294 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the...
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Between Dignity and Despair draws on the extraordinary memoirs, diaries, interviews, and letters of Jewish women and men to give us the first intimate portrait of Jewish life in Nazi Germany. Kaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their daily lives in a world that was becoming more and more insane. Answering the charge that Jews should have left earlier, Kaplan shows that far from seeming inevitable, the Holocaust was impossible to foresee precisely because Nazi repression occurred in irregular and unpredictable steps until the massive violence of Novemer 1938. Then the flow of emigration turned into a torrent, only to be stopped by the war. By that time Jews had been evicted from their homes, robbed of their possessions and their livelihoods, shunned by their former friends, persecuted by their neighbors, and driven into forced labor. For those trapped in Germany, mere survival became a nightmare of increasingly desperate options. Many took their own lives to retain at least some dignity in death; others went underground and endured the fears of nightly bombings and the even greater terror of being discovered by the Nazis. Most were murdered. All were pressed to the limit of human endurance and human loneliness. Focusing on the fate of families and particularly women's experience, Between Dignity and Despair takes us into the neighborhoods, into the kitchens, shops, and schools, to give us the shape and texture, the very feel of what it was like to be a Jew in Nazi Germany.
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Jewish Women in Nazi Germany: Daily Life, Daily Struggles, 1933-1939, in Feminist Studies » Read Now
by Marion A. Kaplan. 28 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...000 people were registered as Jews in Germany (excluding those who had offically...In addition, almost one in five Jews in Germany was a refugee from Eastern...
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Bound upon a Wheel of Fire: Why So Many German Jews Made the Tragic Decision to Remain in Nazi Germany » Read Now
by John V. H. Dippel. 356 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Based on contemporary sources, this is a deeply moving account of why hundreds of thousands of German Jews elected to remain in their homeland in the teeth of Nazi terror.
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Academic Antisemitism: The Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen and the Jews, in History Today » Read Now
by Tim Grady. 6 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...the perceived root of Germanys defeat--the Jews. In the early 1920s, increased...ever-worsening situation for Jews in Germany that persuaded Kropelin...Nazi Germany and the...
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Republican and Fascist Germany: Themes and Variations in the History of Weimar and the Third Reich, 1918-45 (Chap. 11 "The 'Racial War' and Its Legacy") » Read Now
by John Hiden. 272 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

This important addition to twentieth-century German historiography treats the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich as a continuum, exploring its themes through the 1920s and 1930s without artificial breaks, Although the basic information is provided for an understanding of the text, John Hiden's...
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This important addition to twentieth-century German historiography treats the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich as a continuum, exploring its themes through the 1920s and 1930s without artificial breaks, Although the basic information is provided for an understanding of the text, John Hiden's purpose is not to provide yet another chronological narrative of German history between her successive defeats in the two World Wars; rather, he sets out to re-examine a number of key aspects of the period in a set of parallel thematic chapters deliberately designed to provoke reflection and debate.
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German Politics and the Jews: Dusseldorf and Nuremberg, 1910-1933 » Read Now
by Anthony Kauders. 214 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

This revisionist account challenges the view that anti-Semitism was imposed on a majority of moderate Germans following Hitler's rise to power. Anthony Kauders argues that the Weimar Republic was instrumental in changing people's attitudes towards the Jews. The author studies the common man's...
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This revisionist account challenges the view that anti-Semitism was imposed on a majority of moderate Germans following Hitler's rise to power. Anthony Kauders argues that the Weimar Republic was instrumental in changing people's attitudes towards the Jews. The author studies the common man's reaction to the "Jewish Question" in two towns, Dusseldorf and Nuremberg, between 1910 and 1933.
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The Making of the Jewish Middle Class: Women, Family, and Identity in Imperial Germany » Read Now
by Marion A. Kaplan. 351 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

A social history of Jewish women in Imperial Germany, this study synthesizes German, women's, and Jewish history. The book explores the private--familial and religious--lives of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie and the public roles of Jewish women in the university, paid employment and social service...
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A social history of Jewish women in Imperial Germany, this study synthesizes German, women's, and Jewish history. The book explores the private--familial and religious--lives of the German-Jewish bourgeoisie and the public roles of Jewish women in the university, paid employment and social service. It analyzes the changing roles of Jewish women as members of an economically mobile, but socially spurned minority. The author emphasizes the crucial role women played in creating the Jewish middle class, as well as their dual role within the Jewish family and community as powerful agents of class formation and acculturation and determined upholders of tradition.
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The 'Jewish Question' in German Literature, 1749-1939: Emancipation and Its Discontents » Read Now
by Ritchie Robertson. 534 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

The Jewish Question in German Literature, 1749-1939 is an erudite and searching literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria from the first pleas for Jewish emancipation during the Enlightenment to the eve of the Holocaust. Trying to avoid hindsight, and drawing on a wide...
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The Jewish Question in German Literature, 1749-1939 is an erudite and searching literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria from the first pleas for Jewish emancipation during the Enlightenment to the eve of the Holocaust. Trying to avoid hindsight, and drawing on a wide range of literary texts, Ritchie Robertson offers a close examination of attempts to construct a Jewish identity suitable for an increasingly secular world. He examines both literary portrayals of Jews by Gentile writers - whether antisemitic, friendly, or ambivalent - and efforts to reinvent Jewish identities by the Jews themselves, in response to antisemitism culminating in Zionism. No other study by a single author deals with German-Jewish relations so comprehensively and over such a long period of literary history. Robertson's new work will prove stimulating for anyone interested in the modern Jewish experience, as well as for scholars and students of German fiction, prose, and political culture.
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Abraham's Heirs: Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe » Read Now
by Leonard B. Glick. 324 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Leonard B. Glick recounts the history of the Ashkenazic Jewish experience in medieval western Europe from the fifth to fifteenth centuries, focusing on interaction between Jews and Christians during this vital formative period.
He demonstrates that Ashkenazic Jewish culture was profoundly shaped and...
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Leonard B. Glick recounts the history of the Ashkenazic Jewish experience in medieval western Europe from the fifth to fifteenth centuries, focusing on interaction between Jews and Christians during this vital formative period.
He demonstrates that Ashkenazic Jewish culture was profoundly shaped and conditioned by life in an overwhelmingly Christian society. Drawing on diverse Christian documents, he portrays Christian beliefs about medieval Jews and Judaism with a degree of detail seldom found in Jewish histories.
Emphasizing social, political, and economic history, but also discussing religious topics, Glick describes the evolution of a complex, inherently unequal relationship.
Because the Ashkenazic Jews of medieval Europe were ancestral to almost the entire Jewish population of eastern Europe, their historical experience played a major role in the heritage of most Jewish Americans.
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