After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany

Author:   Michael Brenner ,  Barbara Harshav
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Edition:   New edition
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9780691006796


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   12 April 1999
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Michael Brenner ,  Barbara Harshav
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 19.70cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.312kg
ISBN:  

9780691006796


ISBN 10:   0691006792
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   12 April 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

"Preface to the English EditionIntroduction3IHistorical Overview7IIWitness Accounts791Ernest Landau: The First Days of Freedom792Julius Spokojny: Zionist Activist in the DP Camp873Arno Lustiger: Keeping the Memory Alive904Norbert Wollheim: Jewish Autonomy in the British Zone955Heinz Galinski: New Beginning of Jewish Life in Berlin1006Estrongo Nachama: The Singer of Auschwitz1027Nathan Peter Levinson: The Functions of a Rabbi in Postwar Germany1078Josef Warscher: From Buchenwald to Stuttgart1119Wolf Weil: A ""Schindler Jew"" in the Bavarian Province11410Arno Hamburger: Coming Home in the Uniform of the Jewish Brigade11711David Schuster: Restoration of a Small Jewish Community12012Simon Snopkowski: The Jewish Student Association12213Lilli Marx: Renewal of the German-Jewish Press12514E. G. Lowenthal: On Behalf of the Jewish Aid Organization130IIIFive Decades of Jewish Life in Postwar Germany135IVInterview with Ignatz Bubis, President of the Central Council of the Jews in Germany, on the Situation of German Jewry (July 1994)159Appendix: Bibliographical Essay163Notes173Index187"

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A very readable and useful study, written with the engaged sympathy of an insider and the balanced judgments of a fine historian. -- Kirkus Reviews If the middle section of interviews seems redundant, it is only because Brenner has covered the material so well and so succinctly elsewhere [in the book]. -- Publishers Weekly The history that Brenner deftly recounts confounds any urge to extract simple lessons from the Holocaust or its aftermath... Brenner has instead provided something more fragile and more valuable, a reminder that the way people reassemble their lives after tragedy is miraculously complicated. -- Noah J. Efron, The Boston Book Review


A very readable and useful study, written with the engaged sympathy of an insider and the balanced judgments of a fine historian. Kirkus Reviews If the middle section of interviews seems redundant, it is only because Brenner has covered the material so well and so succinctly elsewhere [in the book]. Publishers Weekly The history that Brenner deftly recounts confounds any urge to extract simple lessons from the Holocaust or its aftermath... Brenner has instead provided something more fragile and more valuable, a reminder that the way people reassemble their lives after tragedy is miraculously complicated. -- Noah J. Efron The Boston Book Review


"""A very readable and useful study, written with the engaged sympathy of an insider and the balanced judgments of a fine historian.""--Kirkus Reviews ""If the middle section of interviews seems redundant, it is only because Brenner has covered the material so well and so succinctly elsewhere [in the book].""--Publishers Weekly ""The history that Brenner deftly recounts confounds any urge to extract simple lessons from the Holocaust or its aftermath... Brenner has instead provided something more fragile and more valuable, a reminder that the way people reassemble their lives after tragedy is miraculously complicated.""--Noah J. Efron, The Boston Book Review"


An all-too-brief but informative introduction to German Jewry since 1945, consisting of two essays by Brenner and 15 short autobiographical statements by Jewish communal, religious, and cultural leaders. Brenner (Jewish History and Culture/Univ. of Munich), himself a child of Holocaust survivors, notes that the Jewish community in Germany, which today numbers close to 50,000, has consisted of three streams: Holocaust survivors, overwhelmingly from Eastern Europe, who decided to settle in Germany for a wide variety of personal reasons; German Jews who had fled Nazi Germany and returned following the liberation; and immigrants from Israel and, starting in the mid-1980s, from the USSR. In the immediate post-Holocaust period, the community was so traumatized that a US chaplain described the survivors as demoralized beyond the hope of rehabilitation. The community also suffered both external neglect - help from American Jewish and other Diaspora organizations was late in coming - and internal divisions. While the returnees tended to be less religiously observant and more assimilated, the Eastern European survivors were largely Orthodox Jews and Yiddish speakers. In time, the two communities learned to work together and reconstituted old or established new Jewish structures in Germany. Brenner's thematic approach to this reconstruction leaves some important areas undercovered, but he does deal succinctly with a great deal of interesting material, including the recurrence of German anti-Semitism and neo-Nazism, the tensions between Yekkes (German Jews) and Ostjuden (Eastern European Jews), and two major intracommunal financial scandals. Brenner reveals a community that demographically has grown surprisingly strong and durable, but that religiously and culturally remains weak, with communal leaders who have only a cursory awareness of their heritage. A very readable and useful study, written with the engaged sympathy of an insider and the balanced judgments of a fine historian. (Kirkus Reviews)


A very readable and useful study, written with the engaged sympathy of an insider and the balanced judgments of a fine historian. -- Kirkus Reviews If the middle section of interviews seems redundant, it is only because Brenner has covered the material so well and so succinctly elsewhere [in the book]. -- Publishers Weekly The history that Brenner deftly recounts confounds any urge to extract simple lessons from the Holocaust or its aftermath... Brenner has instead provided something more fragile and more valuable, a reminder that the way people reassemble their lives after tragedy is miraculously complicated. -- Noah J. Efron, The Boston Book Review


A very readable and useful study, written with the engaged sympathy of an insider and the balanced judgments of a fine historian. -- Kirkus Reviews If the middle section of interviews seems redundant, it is only because Brenner has covered the material so well and so succinctly elsewhere [in the book]. -- Publishers Weekly The history that Brenner deftly recounts confounds any urge to extract simple lessons from the Holocaust or its aftermath... Brenner has instead provided something more fragile and more valuable, a reminder that the way people reassemble their lives after tragedy is miraculously complicated. -- Noah J. Efron, The Boston Book Review


Author Information

Michael Brenner is Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich and previously taught at Brandeis University. He is the author of The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany and coauthor of German-Jewish History in Modern Times.

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