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Informationen zum Autor Jay Howard Geller is Samuel Rosenthal Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He is the author of The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction (Cornell University Press, 2019) and Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953 (Cambridge University Press, 2005), as well as co-editor Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational (University of Michigan Press, 2016). Michael Meng is Associate Professor of History at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina. He is the author of Shattered Spaces: Encountering Jewish Ruins in Postwar Germany and Poland (Harvard University Press, 2011) and co-editor of Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland (Indiana University Press 2015) and co-editor of Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective (Berghahn Books, 2017), among other publications on modern European intellectual and cultural history. Klappentext Featuring essays by scholars of history, literature, television, and sociology, Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany illuminates important aspects of Jewish life in Germany since 1949, including institution building, the internal dynamics and changing demographics of the Jewish community, and the central role of Jewish writers and public intellectuals. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction Jay Howard Geller and Michael Meng Chapter 1: The Politics of Jewish Representation in Early West Germany Jay Howard Geller Chapter 2: We have the right to exist here: Jewish Politics and the Challenges of Wiedergutmachung in Post-Holocaust Germany Andrea A. Sinn Chapter 3: Bernhard Brilling and the Reconstruction of Jewish Archives in Postwar Germany Jason Lustig Chapter 4: Whose Heritage?: Early Postwar German-Jewish History as Remigrants’ History—The Case of Hamburg Miriam Rürup Chapter 5: Migration, Memory and New Beginnings: The Postwar Jewish Community in Frankfurt am Main Tobias Freimüller Chapter 6: Helmut Eschwege and Jewish Life in the German Democratic Republic Alexander Walther Chapter 7: Learning Years on the Path to Dissidence: Stefan Heym’s Friendship with Robert Havemann and Wolf Biermann Cathy S. Gelbin Chapter 8: Ernst Bloch’s Eschatological Marxism Michael Meng Chapter 9: Diasporic Place-Making in Barbara Honigmann Katja Garloff Chapter 10: Tur Tur’s Lantern on a Tiny Island: New Historiographical Perspectives on East German Jewish History Constantin Goschler Chapter 11: Community Responses to the Immigration of Russian-Speaking Jews to Germany, 1990–2006 Joseph Cronin Chapter 12: Policing the East: The New Jewish Hero in Dominik Graf’s Crime Drama Im Angesicht des Verbrechens Jill Suzanne Smith Chapter 13: “You are my liberty:” On the Negotiation of Holocaust and Other Memories for Israelis in Berlin Irit Dekel Epilogue Jay Howard Geller and Michael Meng ...
