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Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany
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.”
An Emotional State
Reveals the extent of Germany's emotional responses in the postwar period, challenging persistent paradigms
The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism
This book explores the ways in which the Jewish backgrounds of leading Frankfurt School Critical Theorists shaped their lives, work, and ideas.
The War in Their Minds
A pathbreaking study of the psychic afflictions of German soldiers returning from the Second World War
Frankfurt und die Juden
Deutsch-jüdische Nachkriegsgeschichte: Migration, Konflikte und intellektueller Neubeginn. War die Geschichte jüdischen Lebens in der Bundesrepublik in erster Linie ein langfristig erfolgreicher Prozess von Aussöhnung und Neubeginn nach dem Holocaust? Oder verharrten die wenigen jüdischen Überlebenden, die sich im »Land der Täter« ansiedelten, lediglich auf »gepackten Koffern« und traten öffentlich kaum in Erscheinung? Am Beispiel der Stadt Frankfurt am Main und der Juden, die dort nach 1945 lebten, zeigt sich die Widersprüchlichkeit und Komplexität der jüdischen Nachkriegsgeschichte Westdeutschlands wie unter einem Brennglas. In Frankfurt entstand unter dem Schutz der amerikan...
Are Racists Crazy?
The connection and science behind race, racism, and mental illness In 2012, an interdisciplinary team of scientists at the University of Oxford reported that - based on their clinical experiment - the beta-blocker drug, Propranolol, could reduce implicit racial bias among its users. Shortly after the experiment, an article in Time Magazine cited the study, posing the question: Is racism becoming a mental illness? In Are Racists Crazy? Sander Gilman and James Thomas trace the idea of race and racism as psychopathological categories., from mid-19th century Europe, to contemporary America, up to the aforementioned clinical experiment at the University of Oxford, and ask a slightly different que...
The European Left and the Jewish Question, 1848-1992
This book examines how left-wing political and cultural movements in Western Europe have considered Jews in the last two hundred years. The chapters seek to answer the following question: has there been a specific way in which the Left has considered Jewish minorities? The subject has taken various shapes in the different geographical contexts, influenced by national specificities. In tandem, this volume demonstrates the extent to which left-wing movements share common trends drawn from a collective repertoire of representations and meanings. Highlighting the different aspects of the subject matter, the chapters in this book are divided in three parts, each dedicated to a major theme: the contribution of the theorists of Socialism to the Jewish Question; Antisemitism and its representations in left-wing culture; and the perception of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Taken together, these three themes allow for a multidisciplinary analysis of the relationship between the Left and Jews from the second half of the nineteenth century to recent times.
Individuality and Modernity in Berlin
Moritz Föllmer traces the history of individuality in Berlin from the late 1920s to the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. The demand to be recognised as an individual was central to metropolitan society, as were the spectres of risk, isolation and loss of agency. This was true under all five regimes of the period, through economic depression, war, occupation and reconstruction. The quest for individuality could put democracy under pressure, as in the Weimar years, and could be satisfied by a dictatorship, as was the case in the Third Reich. It was only in the course of the 1950s, when liberal democracy was able to offer superior opportunities for consumerism, that individuality finally claimed the mantle. Individuality and Modernity in Berlin proposes a fresh perspective on twentieth-century Berlin that will engage readers with an interest in the German metropolis as well as European urban history more broadly.
Reparations for Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe
A history of reparations from a comparative and transnational perspective, tracing back to their origins in the final years of the Second World War.
