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Book SynopsisOffers an account of the lives of the Jews who remained in Germany immediately following the war. This book analyzes such diverse aspects as liberation from concentration camps, cultural and religious life among the Jewish Displaced Persons, and the complex relationship between East European and German Jews.
Trade Review"A very readable and useful study, written with the engaged sympathy of an insider and the balanced judgments of a fine historian."--Kirkus Reviews "If the middle section of interviews seems redundant, it is only because Brenner has covered the material so well and so succinctly elsewhere [in the book]."--Publishers Weekly "The history that Brenner deftly recounts confounds any urge to extract simple lessons from the Holocaust or its aftermath... Brenner has instead provided something more fragile and more valuable, a reminder that the way people reassemble their lives after tragedy is miraculously complicated."--Noah J. Efron, The Boston Book Review
Table of ContentsPreface to the English EditionIntroduction3IHistorical Overview7IIWitness Accounts791Ernest Landau: The First Days of Freedom792Julius Spokojny: Zionist Activist in the DP Camp873Arno Lustiger: Keeping the Memory Alive904Norbert Wollheim: Jewish Autonomy in the British Zone955Heinz Galinski: New Beginning of Jewish Life in Berlin1006Estrongo Nachama: The Singer of Auschwitz1027Nathan Peter Levinson: The Functions of a Rabbi in Postwar Germany1078Josef Warscher: From Buchenwald to Stuttgart1119Wolf Weil: A "Schindler Jew" in the Bavarian Province11410Arno Hamburger: Coming Home in the Uniform of the Jewish Brigade11711David Schuster: Restoration of a Small Jewish Community12012Simon Snopkowski: The Jewish Student Association12213Lilli Marx: Renewal of the German-Jewish Press12514E. G. Lowenthal: On Behalf of the Jewish Aid Organization130IIIFive Decades of Jewish Life in Postwar Germany135IVInterview with Ignatz Bubis, President of the Central Council of the Jews in Germany, on the Situation of German Jewry (July 1994)159Appendix: Bibliographical Essay163Notes173Index187
