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.
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.
Jay Howard Geller is Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction (Cornell University Press, 2019) and Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953 (Cambridge University Press, 2005), as well as co-editor Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational (University of Michigan Press, 2016). Michael Meng is Associate Professor of History at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. He is the author of Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland (Harvard University Press, 2011) and co-editor of Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland (Indiana University Press 2015) and co-editor of Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective (Berghahn Books, 2017), among other publications on modern European intellectual and cultural history.
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Contents
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 Rürup
Chapter 5: Migration, Memory and New Beginnings: The Postwar Jewish Community in Frankfurt am Main
Tobias Freimüller
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
