Unlikely History The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis, 1945-2000

by Morris, Leslie; Zipes, Jack

• ISBN13: 9780312293901
• ISBN10: 0312293909
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-06
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Since 1945, the Jewish population in Germany has grown steadily and there is a flourishing of "Jewish" culture. Does this development mean that Jews are playing a significant role in German social life or that the German-Jewish relationship, often referred to as a kind of symbiosis, has re-emerged? The essays in this book cover the changes in German society since 1945 in Jewish communities, literature, theater, film, architecture, and other areas including an examination of the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Austria.

Author Biography

Leslie Morris is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. He is co-author of Germans and Jews Since the Holocaust with Anson Rabinbach.

Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. She is co-editor of Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany and the author of numerous articles about German-Jewish Literature.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii
Preface German and Jewish Obsession	xi
Leslie Morris
Jack Zipes
The Debate
Encounters Across the Void: Rethinking Approaches to German-Jewish Symbioses	3	(28)
Karen Remmler
The Rift and Not the Symbiosis	31	(18)
Katja Behrens
Social and Historical Background
The Transformation of the German-Jewish Community	49	(14)
Michael Brenner
Home and Displacement in a City of Bordercrossers: Jews in Berlin 1945-1948	63	(38)
Atina Grossmann
Jewish Existence in Germany from the Perspective of the Non-Jewish Majority: Daily Life between Anti-Semitism and Philo-Semitism	101	(18)
Wolfgang Benz
Austrian Exceptionalism: Haider, the European Union, the Austrian Past and Present: An Inimical World for the Jews	119	(22)
Andrei S. Markovits
Anti-Semitism in East Germany, 1952-1953: Denial to the End	141	(14)
Mario Kessler
Reading ``Between the Lines'': Daniel Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum and the Shattered Symbiosis	155	(28)
Noah Isenberg
Cultural Relations
The Critical Embracement of Germany: Hans Mayer and Marcel Reich-Ranicki	183	(20)
Jack Zipes
Return to Germany: German-Jewish Authors Seeking Address	203	(30)
Pascale R. Bos
The Janus-Faced Jew: Nathan and Shylock on the Postwar German Stage	233	(18)
Anat Feinberg
Fritz Kortner's Last Illusion	251	(12)
Robert Shandley
Comic Vision and ``Negative Symbiosis'' in Maxim Biller's Harlem Holocaust and Rafael Seligmann's Der Musterjude	263	(14)
Rita Bashaw
German and Austrian Jewish Women's Writing at the Millennium	277	(14)
Dagmar Lorenz
Postmemory, Postmemoir	291	(16)
Leslie Morris
Bibliography	307	(20)
Index	327