Unlikely History

The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis,1945-2000

By: Leslie Morris (Editor), Jack Zipes (Editor)

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Hardcover | 6 March 2002 | Edition Number 1

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In the English-speaking world, it is generally believed that there are very few Jews living and thriving in Germany. Yet, there has been an unlikely postwar history 1945-2001 that has been somewhat repressed in North America and the United Kingdom. While most people are well-informed about the Holocaust and the consequences that this tragic event has had for the world, very few people know that there has been a steady increase in the population of Jews in Germany since 1945 and that there is a flourishing 'Jewish' culture, certainly a relatively strong Jewish presence, in Germany today. Does this development mean that Jews are playing a significant role in German social life? Does this mean that the great German-Jewish relationship, often referred to as a kind of symbiosis, has re-emerged despite the odds against it? The sixteen essays in this book written by the leading critics in the field cover the fascinating changes that have been made in German society since 1945 in the Jewish communities, literature, theater, film, architecture, and other areas of interest including an examination of the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Austria. For anyone interested in reading about the unpredictable transformations in German-Jewish relations since 1945, Unlikely History will provide information and insights into a history that needs to be told to bring about greater understanding of Jews and Germans in contemporary Germany.

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'...this superlative book focuses on German-Jewish relations since 1945 by considering the idea and expression of symbiosis between German Culture and identity and that of the Jews who write from Germany and in German since the death camps were liberated. And yet, as the editors conclude 'this emphasis on the Holocaust oftern conceals the astonishing transformation of the realtions between Germans and Jews since 1945'. This riveting volume argues that such transformation is more accurately stated as plural, for it is constituted not only as a social and historical phenomenon but also as complex cultural realtions and debates.' - Modernism/Modernity

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Contributors	p. vii
Preface: German and Jewish Obsession	p. xi
The Debate
Encounters Across the Void: Rethinking Approaches to German-Jewish Symbioses	p. 3
The Rift and Not the Symbiosis	p. 31
Social and Historical Background
The Transformation of the German-Jewish Community	p. 49
Home and Displacement in a City of Bordercrossers: Jews in Berlin 1945-1948	p. 63
Jewish Existence in Germany from the Perspective of the Non-Jewish Majority: Daily Life between Anti-Semitism and Philo-Semitism	p. 101
Austrian Exceptionalism: Haider, the European Union, the Austrian Past and Present: An Inimical World for the Jews	p. 119
Anti-Semitism in East Germany, 1952-1953: Denial to the End	p. 141
Reading "Between the Lines": Daniel Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum and the Shattered Symbiosis	p. 155
Cultural Relations
The Critical Embracement of Germany: Hans Mayer and Marcel Reich-Ranicki	p. 183
Return to Germany: German-Jewish Authors Seeking Address	p. 203
The Janus-Faced Jew: Nathan and Shylock on the Postwar German Stage	p. 233
Fritz Kortner's Last Illusion	p. 251
Comic Vision and "Negative Symbiosis" in Maxim Biller's Harlem Holocaust and Rafael Seligmann's Der Musterjude	p. 263
German and Austrian Jewish Women's Writing at the Millennium	p. 277
Postmemory, Postmemoir	p. 291
Bibliography	p. 307
Index	p. 327
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