Name: Jews and Germans: Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy
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Author: Lewy, Guenter
ISBN: 9780827615038

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Jews and Germans: Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy

Type

Physical Book

Author

Guenter Lewy

Publisher

Jewish Publication Society

Language

English

Pages

280

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.3 x 16.3 x 3.0 cm

Weight

0.54 kg.

ISBN13

9780827615038

Synopsis "Jews and Germans: Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy"

Jews and Germans is the only book in English to delve fully into the history and challenges of the German-Jewish relationship, from before the Holocaust to the present day. The Weimar Republic era--the fifteen years between Germany's defeat in World War I (1918) and Hitler's accession (1933)--has been characterized as a time of unparalleled German-Jewish concord and collaboration. Even though Jews constituted less than 1 percent of the German population, they occupied a significant place in German literature, music, theater, journalism, science, and many other fields. Was that German-Jewish relationship truly reciprocal? How has it evolved since the Holocaust, and what can it become? Beginning with the German Jews' struggle for emancipation, Guenter Lewy describes Jewish life during the heyday of the Weimar Republic, particularly the Jewish writers, left-wing intellectuals, combat veterans, and adult and youth organizations. With this history as a backdrop he examines the deeply disparate responses among Jews when the Nazis assumed power. Lewy then elucidates Jewish life in postwar West Germany; in East Germany, where Jewish communists searched for a second German-Jewish symbiosis based on Marxist principles; and finally in the united Germany--illuminating the complexities of fraught relationships over time.

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