Being Jewish in the New Germany
- ISBN-10
- 0813539358
- ISBN-13
- 9780813539355
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005-12-22
- Publisher
- Rutgers University Press
- Author
- Jeffrey M. Peck
Description
Germany today boasts the fastest growing population of Jews in Europe. The streets of Berlin abound with signs of a revival of Jewish culture, ranging from bagel shops to the sight of worshipers leaving synagogue on Saturday. With the new energy infused by Jewish immigration from Russia and changes in immigration and naturalization laws in general, Jeffrey M. Peck argues that we must now begin considering how Jews live in Germany rather than merely asking why they would choose to do so. In Being Jewish in the New Germany, Peck explores the diversity of contemporary Jewish life and the complex struggles within the community-and among Germans in general-over history, responsibility, culture, and identity. He provides a glimpse of an emerging, if conflicted, multicultural country and examines how the development of the European Community, globalization, and the post-9/11 political climate play out in this context. With sensitive, yet critical, insight into the nation's political and social life, chapters explore issues such as the shifting ethnic/national makeup of the population, changes in political leadership, and the renaissance of Jewish art and literature. Peck also explores new forms of anti-Semitism and relations between Jews and Turks-the country's other prominent minority population. In this surprising description of the rebirth of a community, Peck argues that there is, indeed, a vibrant and significant future for Jews in Germany. Written in clear and compelling language, this book will be of interest to the general public and scholars alike.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Being Jewish in 21st-Century Germany
By Olaf Glöckner, Haim FirebergIn den BEITRÄGEN werden exzellente Monographien und Sammelbände zum gesamten Themenspektrum Jüdischer Studien veröffentlicht. Die Reihe ist peer-reviewed.
-
Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany
By Marion A. KaplanKaplan tells the story of Jews in Germany not from the hindsight of the Holocaust, nor by focusing on the persecutors, but from the bewildered and ambiguous perspective of Jews trying to navigate their daily lives in a world that was ...
-
Father/Land: A Personal Search for the New Germany
By Frederick KempeLenz says they should all learn from the Algerian student . It was curious , he thought , that a foreign student would be prouder of being German than native Germans . " I'm happy to be German . I wouldn't want to be French .
-
The Future of the German-Jewish Past: Memory and the Question of Antisemitism
By Gideon Reuveni, Diana FranklinWhile the central focus of this volume is Germany, the implications go beyond the German-Jewish experience and relate to some of the broader challenges facing modern societies today.
-
Being Jewish in 21st Century Central Europe
By Olaf Glöckner, Haim Fireberg, Marcela Menachem ZoufaláThe volume includes contributions on Jewish life in central European countries like Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, and Germany.
-
A Jewish Family in Germany Today: An Intimate Portrait
By Y. Michal BodemannY. Michal Bodemann's astute questions and obvious intimate acquaintance with the family bring out the problematic aspects of being Jewish in Germany today.
-
Jewish Daily Life in Germany, 1618-1945
By Marion A. KaplanA study of Jewish life in Germany from 1618 until 1945, this work investigates the details of daily living, the homes and neighbourhoods in which Jews lived, their families and friendships, religious practices and feelings, as well as their ...
-
Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany
By Yascha Mounk" Examining history, the story of his family, and his own childhood, he shows that anti-Semitism and far-right extremism have long coexisted with self-conscious philo-Semitism in postwar Germany.
-
The New German Jewry and the European Context: The Return of the European Jewish Diaspora
By Y. Michal BodemannAmong Jews in the Diaspora, recent years and especially recent months have seen a growing disenchantment with Israeli politics and with Israel's claim as the only legitimate basis for Jewish...
-
Jews in Today's German Culture
By Sander L. GilmanThis is the first book to examine an emerging new German Jewish culture that has become visible since the fall of the Berlin Wall.The Shoah seemed to have erased the...