After the Holocaust Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany

Name: After the Holocaust Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany
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ISBN: 9780691006796

ISBN-10: 0691006792

ISBN-13: 9780691006796

Edition: 1997

Authors: Michael Brenner, B. Harshav

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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…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 4/12/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.26" wide x 8.98" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Preface to the English Edition


Introduction



Historical Overview



Witness Accounts



Ernest Landau: The First Days of Freedom



Julius Spokojny: Zionist Activist in the DP Camp



Arno Lustiger: Keeping the Memory Alive



Norbert Wollheim: Jewish Autonomy in the British Zone



Heinz Galinski: New Beginning of Jewish Life in Berlin



Estrongo Nachama: The Singer of Auschwitz



Nathan Peter Levinson: The Functions of a Rabbi in Postwar Germany



Josef Warscher: From Buchenwald to Stuttgart



Wolf Weil: A "Schindler Jew" in the Bavarian Province



Arno Hamburger: Coming Home in the Uniform of the Jewish Brigade



David Schuster: Restoration of a Small Jewish Community



Simon Snopkowski: The Jewish Student Association



Lilli Marx: Renewal of the German-Jewish Press



E. G. Lowenthal: On Behalf of the Jewish Aid Organization



Five Decades of Jewish Life in Postwar Germany



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