Jews and Germans: Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy by Lewy, Guenter

Jews and Germans: Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780827615038)

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Jews and Germans: Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy by Lewy, Guenter

Jews and Germans: Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy

$35.00
Jews and Germans: Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy by Lewy, Guenter

Jews and Germans: Promise, Tragedy, and the Search for Normalcy

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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Jews and Germans is the only book in English to delve fully into the history and challenges of the German-Jewish relationship, from before the Holocaust to the present day.

The Weimar Republic era--the fifteen years between Germany's defeat in World War I (1918) and Hitler's accession (1933)--has been characterized as a time of unparalleled German-Jewish concord and collaboration. Even though Jews constituted less than 1 percent of the German population, they occupied a significant place in German literature, music, theater, journalism, science, and many other fields. Was that German-Jewish relationship truly reciprocal? How has it evolved since the Holocaust, and what can it become?

Beginning with the German Jews' struggle for emancipation, Guenter Lewy describes Jewish life during the heyday of the Weimar Republic, particularly the Jewish writers, left-wing intellectuals, combat veterans, and adult and youth organizations. With this history as a backdrop he examines the deeply disparate responses among Jews when the Nazis assumed power. Lewy then elucidates Jewish life in postwar West Germany; in East Germany, where Jewish communists searched for a second German-Jewish symbiosis based on Marxist principles; and finally in the united Germany--illuminating the complexities of fraught relationships over time.


Author: Guenter Lewy
ISBN-10: 0827615035
ISBN-13: 9780827615038
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Language: English
Published: 10/01/2020
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.41w x 1.17d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2021
By Guenter Lewy
By Guenter Lewy
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Guenter Lewy is professor emeritus of political science at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is the author of seventeen books, most recently Perpetrators: The World of the Holocaust Killers. Born in 1923 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), he lived for six years under Nazi rule and was on the receiving end of storm trooper violence during Kristallnacht. He emigrated to Palestine in early 1939. With Erwin Rommel at the gates of Alexandria, Lewy volunteered for the British Army and served in the Jewish Brigade, which fought in Italy as part of Montgomery's Eighth Army. For about a year after the war he was an interpreter for the British military police in occupied Germany. In 1946 he came to the United States.

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