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Given what we know about Nazi crimes of violence, it is hard for us to imagine encounters between Jews and non-Jews after 1945. Yet many connections developed between Holocaust survivors, refugees, hangers-on, observers, and profiteers. The volume examines relationships in civil society between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans from a historical and cultural historical perspective. In Anbetracht des Wissens um die nationalsozialistischen Gewaltverbrechen sind Begegnungen zwischen Juden und Nicht-Juden nach 1945 heute nur schwer vorstellbar. Dennoch gab es in der Bundesrepublik zahlreiche Verbindungen zwischen Holocaust-Überlebenden, Flüchtlingen, Mitläufern, Zuschauern und Profiteuren. Der Band behandelt zivilgesellschaftliche Beziehungen zwischen Juden und nichtjüdischen Deutschen aus einer historischen und kulturgeschichtlichen Perspektive. Die Beiträge des Sammelbandes beschäftigen sich mit der Frage, wie diese Akteure in ihrem sozialen Umfeld, im Privaten, in Religionsgemeinschaften, in der Wissenschaft, aber auch im Bereich des Wirtschaftens miteinander in eine Beziehung treten und welche Themen dabei verhandelt werden. Unter welchen Voraussetzungen fanden diese Begegnungen statt, welche handlungsleitenden Momente und Erfahrungen, aber auch welche Interpretationen der Begegnungserfahrungen lassen sich nachzeichnen?

Jews --- History --- German-Jewish relations. --- post-war Germany.

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In the wake of World War II and the Holocaust, it seemed there was no place for German in Israel and no trace of Hebrew in Germany - the two languages and their cultures appeared as divergent as the directions of their scripts. Yet when placed side by side on opposing pages, German and Hebrew converge in the middle. Comprised of essays on literature, history, philosophy, and the visual and performing arts, this volume explores the mutual influence of two linguistic cultures long held as separate or even as diametrically opposed. From Moses Mendelssohn's arrival in Berlin in 1748 to the recent wave of Israeli migration to Berlin, the essays gathered here shed new light on the painful yet productive relationship between modern German and Hebrew cultures. 　

German literature --- Jews --- Hebrew literature --- Jewish authors --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- German Culture. --- German-Jewish Relations. --- Intercultural Dialogue. --- Jewish Culture.

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The German novelist Martin Walser's 1998 speech upon accepting the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade remains a milestone in recent German efforts to come to terms with the Nazi past. The day after the speech, Ignatz Bubis, leader of Germany's Jewish community, attacked Walser for inciting dangerous right-wing sentiment with controversial passages including the notorious statement 'Auschwitz is not suited to be a moral bludgeon,' thus igniting the protracted public battle of opinions known as the 'Walser-Bubis Debate.' The speech continues to loom large in Germany's struggle to acknowledge responsibility for Nazi crimes yet escape a suffocating burden of remembrance. But in spite of its notoriety, little attention has been paid to what the speech actually says, as opposed to the public outcry and debate that followed it. This book presents the text of the speech, along with several of Walser's other essays and speeches about the Holocaust and its impact on German identity, in English translation. It examines them as texts, a process that involves a discussion of literary complexities and an attempt to distinguish valid criticism of German intellectual life from what is justifiably problematic. And it places this textual examination in the context of Walser's and other postwar German intellectuals' attempts to deal with the Nazi past, of German-Jewish relations in the postwar era, and of the once hidden and now - due in part to Walser's speech - increasingly open discourse about Germans as victims during and immediately after the Nazi era. Thomas A. Kovach is professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona.

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