TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brenner,Michael
AU  - Harshav,Barbara
TI  - After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany 
SN  - 9780691232201
AV  - DS135.G33 B7513 1997
U1  - 943/.004924 21
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Holocaust survivors
KW  - Germany
KW  - Jews
KW  - History
KW  - 1945-1990
KW  - HISTORY / Holocaust
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Agudat Israel
KW  - American Liberation Army
KW  - Anti-Zionism
KW  - Auerbach, Philipp
KW  - Augsburg
KW  - Babenhausen DP camp
KW  - Bamberg
KW  - Bavaria
KW  - Bayreuth
KW  - Berihah (Flight)
KW  - Biller, Maxim
KW  - Bonn
KW  - Burial Society
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - Christian churches
KW  - Circumcisions
KW  - Coblenz
KW  - Cologne
KW  - Conservative Judaism
KW  - Conversion
KW  - Cultural activities
KW  - Danziger, Samuel
KW  - Dischereit, Esther
KW  - Dora camp
KW  - Dramkrays Hazomir
KW  - Düsseldorf
KW  - Ehrenburg, Ilya
KW  - Einheitsgemeinden
KW  - Emigration
KW  - Exodus affair (1947)
KW  - Feder, Samy
KW  - Flick Company
KW  - Flossenbürg
KW  - Fun letstn Khurbn (journal)
KW  - Geringshof
KW  - German News Service
KW  - Grossman, Vassily
KW  - Haganah
KW  - Haggadah
KW  - Hamburg
KW  - Honigmann, Barbara
KW  - Israeli emigrants
KW  - Itzehoe
KW  - Jewish aid organizations
KW  - Jewish sports clubs
KW  - Kaltherberge DP camp
KW  - Kirchner, Peter
KW  - Korn, Salomon
KW  - Kuschner, Doris
KW  - Mainz
KW  - Marx, Karl
KW  - Memmingen case
KW  - Neo-Orthodox Judaism
KW  - Neumünster
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface to the English Edition --; Introduction --; I. Historical Overview --; II. Witness Accounts --; III. Five Decades of Jewish Life in Postwar Germany --; IV Interview with Ignatz Bubis, President of the Central Council of the Jews in Germany, on the Situation of German Jewry (July 1994) --; Appendix: Bibliographical Essay --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This landmark book is the first comprehensive account of the lives of the Jews who remained in Germany immediately following the war. Gathering never-before-published eyewitness accounts from Holocaust survivors, Michael Brenner presents a remarkable history of this period. While much has been written on the Holocaust itself, until now little has been known about the fate of those survivors who remained in Germany. Jews emerging from concentration camps would learn that most of their families had been murdered and their communities destroyed. Furthermore, all Jews in the country would face the stigma of living, as a 1948 resolution of the World Jewish Congress termed it, on "bloodsoaked German soil." Brenner brings to life the psychological, spiritual, and material obstacles they surmounted as they rebuilt their lives in Germany. At the heart of his narrative is a series of fifteen interviews Brenner conducted with some of the most important witnesses who played an active role in the reconstruction--including presidents of Jewish communities, rabbis, and journalists. Based on the Yiddish and German press and unpublished archival material, the first part of this book provides a historical introduction to this fascinating topic. Here the author analyzes such diverse aspects as liberation from concentration camps, cultural and religious life among the Jewish Displaced Persons, antisemitism and philosemitism in post-war Germany, and the complex relationship between East European and German Jews. A second part consists of the fifteen interviews, conducted by Brenner, with witnesses representing the diverse background of the postwar Jewish community. While most of them were camp survivors, others returned from exile or came to Germany as soldiers of the Jewish Brigade or with international Jewish aid organizations. A third part, which covers the development of the Jewish community in Germany from the 1950s until today, concludes the book
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691232201?locatt=mode:legacy
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