A Jew in the new Germany / Henryk Broder ; translated from the German by the Broder Translators' Collective ; edited by Sander L. Gilman and Lilian M. Friedberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Broder, Henryk M., 1946-

Contributor:

Gilman, Sander L.

Friedberg, Lilian M.

Series:

Humanities laboratory

The humanities laboratory

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Jews--Germany--Identity.

Jews.

Social conditions.

Germany.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

Jews--Cultural assimilation--Germany.

Jews--Cultural assimilation.

Jews--Germany--Social conditions--20th century.

Germany--Social conditions--20th century.

Germany--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xvi, 151 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2004]

Summary:

Henryk Broder, one of the most controversial and engaging writers in Germany today, has been a thorn in the side of the Establishment for thirty years. The son of two Polish Holocaust survivors, Broder is not only a trenchant political critic and observant social essayist but an invaluable chronicler of the Jewish experience in late twentieth-century Germany. This volume collects eighteen of Broder's essays, translated for the first time into English. The first was written in 1979 and the most recent deals with the post-9/11 realities of the war on terrorism and its effects on the countries of Europe. Other essays address the debate over the construction of a Holocaust memorial in Berlin, the German response to the 1991 Gulf War, the polities of German reunification, and the rise of the new German nationalism. A Jew in the New Germany showeases Broder's biting wit, his sense of history, and his ability to draw broader connections between what appear at first glance to be minor or isolated incidents. In these essays he charts the recent evolution of German Jewish relations, using his own outsider status to hold up a mirror to the German people and point out that things have not changed for German Jews as much as non-Jews might think. Again and again he shows himself to be chillingly prophetic, especially regarding Isracl and the crisis in the Middle East.

Contents:

1. Why I Would Rather Not Be a Jew

and If I must, Then Rather Not in Germany (1979) 1

2. You Are Still Your Parents' Children

The New German Left and Everyday Anti-Semitism 21

Why I Am Leaving (1981) 36

3. Heimat?

No Thanks! (1987) 37

4. Don't Forget to Differentiate! (1987) 43

5. I Love Karstadt (1987) 46

6. Our Kampf (1991) 58

7. Just between Germans (1994) 70

8. A Beautiful Revolution (1994) 76

9. A Hopeless Enlightenment (1994) 80

10. The Republic of Simulators (1994) 84

11. Ostalgia: The GDR Is Back (1996) 91

12. The Germanization of the Holocaust (1996) 102

13. Problem, Shock, and Trauma (1998) 113

14. You're Not Dead till You Give Up the Fight (1998) 118

15. Tagar and the Teepee Family (1998) 122

16. To Each His Own (1999) 130

17. To Each Her Market Value (1999) 133

18. Just in Time: A Catholic Casuist on the Front in the War on Terror (2002) 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0252028562

OCLC:

51087952