A firsthand confrontation with the inner fears and the outer realities of German Jews] as they themselves reflect post-Shoah history and experience. This is not merely lived history, it is history with a living face. Sander L. GilmanThis absorbing book of interviews takes one to the heart of modern German Jewish history. Of the eleven German Jews interviewed, four are from West Berlin, and seven are from East Berlin. The interviews provide an exceptionally varied and intimate portrait of Jewish experience in twentieth-century Germany. There are first-hand accounts of the Weimar Republic, the...
A firsthand confrontation with the inner fears and the outer realities of German Jews] as they themselves reflect post-Shoah history and experience. ...
"Peck's book takes a frank look at the diversity of Jewish experience in Germany sixty years after the end of the Holocaust and paints a lively picture of contrasts, conflicts, and cultures that shape a contemporary Germany seeking cosmopolitan status."-Karen Remmler, coeditor of Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany: An Anthology "The definitive study of the state of Jewish life and culture in reunified Germany."-Sander Gilman, Weidenfeld Professor of European Comparative Literature, St. Anne's College Germany today boasts the fastest growing population of Jews in Europe. The streets of...
"Peck's book takes a frank look at the diversity of Jewish experience in Germany sixty years after the end of the Holocaust and paints a lively pictur...
