Unlikely history : the changing German-Jewish symbiosis, 1945-2000 / edited by Leslie Morris and Jack Zipes.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Morris, Leslie, 1958-

Zipes, Jack, 1937-

Conference Name:

Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis, 1945-2000 (2000 : University of Minnesota)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany--History--1945-1990--Congresses.

Jews.

Holocaust survivors--Germany--History--Congresses.

Holocaust survivors.

Jews--Germany--Intellectual life--Congresses.

Public opinion.

History.

Germany.

Intellectual life.

Jews--Germany--Public opinion--Congresses.

Public opinion--Germany--Congresses.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Influence--Congresses.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Germany--Ethnic relations--Congresses.

Ethnic relations.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Houndmills, England : Palgrave, 2002.

Summary:

Since 1945, the Jewish population in Germany has grown steadily and "Jewish" culture has flourished, especially in the past decade. Does this development mean that Jews are playing a significant role in German social life or that the German-Jewish relationship, often referred to as a kind of symbiosis, has re-emerged? The essays in this book cover the changes in German society since 1945 in Jewish communities, literature, theater, film, architecture, and other areas, including an examination of the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Austria.

Contents:

Preface: German and Jewish Obsession / Leslie Morris, Jack Zipes xi

The Debate

1 Encounters Across the Void: Rethinking Approaches to German-Jewish Symbioses / Karen Remmler 3

2 The Rift and Not the Symbiosis / Katja Behrens 31

Social and Historical Background

3 The Transformation of the German-Jewish Community / Michael Brenner 49

4 Home and Displacement in a City of Bordercrossers: Jews in Berlin 1945-1948 / Atina Grossmann 63

5 Jewish Existence in Germany from the Perspective of the Non-Jewish Majority: Daily Life between Anti-Semitism and Philo-Semitism / Wolfgang Benz 101

6 Austrian Exceptionalism: Haider, the European Union, the Austrian Past and Present: An Inimical World for the Jews / Andrei S. Markovits 119

7 Anti-Semitism in East Germany, 1952-1953: Denial to the End / Mario Kessler 141

8 Reading "Between the Lines": Daniel Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum and the Shattered Symbiosis / Noah Isenberg 155

Cultural Relations

9 The Critical Embracement of Germany: Hans Mayer and Marcel Reich-Ranicki / Jack Zipes 183

10 Return to Germany: German-Jewish Authors Seeking Address / Pascale R. Bos 203

11 The Janus-Faced Jew: Nathan and Shylock on the Postwar German Stage / Anat Feinberg 233

12 Fritz Kortner's Last Illusion / Robert Shandley 251

13 Comic Vision and "Negative Symbiosis" in Maxim Biller's Harlem Holocaust and Rafael Seligmann's Der Musterjude / Rita Bashaw 263

14 German and Austrian Jewish Women's Writing at the Millennium / Dagmar Lorenz 277

15 Postmemory, Postmemoir / Leslie Morris 291.

Notes:

"Originated at a conference held at the University of Minnesota in May 2000"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-325) and index.

ISBN:

0312293895

0312293909

OCLC:

47443977