A History of Jews in Germany since 1945, livre ebook

Originally published in German in 2012, this comprehensive history of Jewish life in postwar Germany provides a systematic account of Jews and Judaism from the Holocaust to the early 21st century by leading experts of modern German-Jewish history. Beginning in the immediate postwar period with a large concentration of Eastern European Holocaust survivors stranded in Germany, the book follows Jews during the relative quiet period of the fifties and early sixties during which the foundations of new Jewish life were laid.

Brenner's volume goes on to address the rise of anti-Israel sentiments after the Six-Day War as well as the beginnings of a critical confrontation with Germany's Nazi past in the late sixties and early seventies, noting the relatively small numbers of Jews living in Germany up to the 1990s. The contributors argue that these Jews were a powerful symbolic presence in German society and sent a meaningful signal to the rest of the world that Jewish life was possible again in Germany after the Holocaust.

This landmark history presents a comprehensive account of reconstruction of a multifaceted Jewish life in a country that carries the legacy of being at the epicenter of the Holocaust.

Introduction
Michael Brenner

Banished: Jews in Germany after the Holocaust
Dan Diner

Part One: Way Station 1945–1949
Atina Grossmann and Tamar Lewinsky
1. Displaced Persons
2. An Autonomous Society
3. German Jews
4. Dissolution and Establishment

Part Two: 1950–1967
Michael Brenner and Norbert Frei
5. Institutional New Beginning
6. Religion and Culture
7. German Jews or Jews in Germany?
8. After the Deed
9. Germans and Jews during the Decade of the "Enlightenment"

Part Three: 1968–1989 Alignments
Constantin Goschler and Anthony Kauders
10. The Jewish Community
11. The Jews in German Society

Part Four: 1990–2012
New Directions
12. The Russian-Jewish Immigration
Yfaat Weiss and Lena Gorelik
13. A New German Jewry?
Michael Brenner

Appendix
Acknowledgments
Timeline
Chairpersons and Presidents of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
Statistics
Abbreviations
Archives

References