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A Dictionary Of German-Jewish Surnames
Lars Menk

Avotaynu, 2005

This dictionary identifies more than 13,000 German-Jewish surnames from the area that was pre-World War I Germany. From Baden-Wuerttemburg in the south to Schleswig-Holstein in the north. From Westfalen in the west to East Prussia in the east. In addition to providing the etymology and variants of each name, it identifies where in the region the name appeared, identifying the town and time period. More than 300 sources were used to compile the ...

The German Bride: A Novel

11 reviews
Joanna Hershon

Ballantine Books, 2008

The German Bride is an incredible read...
I fell in love with this remarkable novel and look forward to a second read. I found it to be totally engaging with an intensely absorbing narrative. The writing is gorgeous--at once lyrical and laid bare. These characters are real in the best sense--nuanced, surprising and complex but amazingly full humor and grace. The struggles of these remarkable pioneers are rendered with much insight. The ...

German Idealism and the Jew: The Inner Anti-Semitism of Philosophy and German Jewish Responses

1 review
Michael Mack

University Of Chicago Press, 2003

Attack on Kant
Mack's book struck me as a kind of sequel. A few years ago, I read Jonathan Israel's Radical Enlightenment, with its thrilling enthronement of Spinoza at the heart of the Enlightenment. I was disappointed when the book ended with Christian Wolff, that is, just before Kant, who I had hoped to see exposed as the ultimate anti-Spinoza. Well, Mack picks up where Israel left off, criticizing not only ...

Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers

4 reviews
Christopher R. Browning

Cambridge University Press, 2000

Startling Look At The Men Who Accomplished The Holocaust!
In a six-essay series originally devised as lectures, the author takes the reader deep into the hearts and minds of the men who engineered the Holocaust. As in his earlier work, he argues persuasively and with an army of facts and figures that the decision to eradicate all of Europe's Jews from the face of the planet was an incrementally derived decision. This argument is very much like that ...

Hitler, Germans, and the Jewish Question

1 review
Sarah Ann Gordon

Princeton University Press, 1984

Reads like DR dissertation
Professor Gordon's thesis provides possible explanations as to the lack of revolt or uprising by the German people during the atrocities perpetrated by Hitler and the Nazis against the Jews and other `inferior races'. Gordon provides a well researched piece but the style of writing indicates this is Gordon's doctoral dissertation which may make it more complicated that necessary. A vital ...

A German Life - Against all odds, change is possible ( A german Life - Biography) German Jewish history, ...

6 reviews
Bernd Wollschlaeger M.D.

Emor Publishing, 2007

Wonderful and riveting
Thanks Berndt for a taking me on this journey with you. I really enjoyed your book and the way that you presented your story - I found it extremely educational and very easy to read. Having read your story it makes my mother's story and who and what she and my grandparents were so much more understandable. Your story kept me captivated and I never wanted to put the book down. It answered so ...

Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story Of Nazi Racial Laws And Men Of Jewish Descent In The German ...

44 reviews
Bryan Mark Rigg

University Press of Kansas, 2004

Refutes the "All Jews Were Victims" Holocaust Myth
"Not every one who had Jewish ancestry was a victim of the death camps" (Rigg, p. 268). According to both the Halaka and Israel's "Law of Return", a Jew is defined as a person having a Jewish mother while remaining unconverted to another religion, or one who converted to Judaism. Based on this definition, a large fraction of the Mischlinge (German-Jewish "mongrels") consisted of true Jews. In ...

Jewish Voices, German Words: Growing Up Jewish in Postwar Germany and Austria

1 review

Catbird Pr, 1994

a snapshot in time
A set of moderately readable short stories, all involving Jews living in postwar Germany. Most of these stories are about awkwardness: the awkwardness of Jews trying to figure out how to interact with people who in some cases had spent their youth murdering Jews or (more often) cheering on the killers, the awkwardness of German non-Jews who could not quite figure out how to interact with their ...

Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996

1 review

Yale University Press, 1997

Much better than I expected
For those who want to understand the process that led eventually to the Holocaust.

The Jewish Response to German Culture: From the Enlightenment to the Second World War (Tauber Institute)
Jehuda Reinharz

Brandeis, 1985

Seventeen scholars explore the interaction between a Jewish culture with its ancient heritage and an expansive German culture in the process of modernization.

Germans No More: Accounts of Jewish Everyday Life, 1933-1938

Berghahn Books, 2006

German-Jewish History in Modern Times

1 review

Columbia University Press, 1998

Informative
An informative collection of articles about the place of Jews in German society during a period of rapid social and economic change. Excellent chapters by Monika Richarz on demographics, occupational distribution and social structure illuminate distinctively Jewish patterns and contributions within the economy while her chapter on Jewish women detail the extraordinary involvement of Jewish ...

German Jewish intellectuals' diaspora in Turkey: 1933-55 (1).: An article from: The Historian
Arnold Reisman

Thomson Gale, 2007

This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2007. The length of the article is 12667 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation Details Title: German Jewish intellectuals' diaspora in Turkey: ...

Brothers And Strangers: East-European Jew In German And German Jewish
Steven E. Aschheim

University of Wisconsin Press, 1983

"Steven Aschheim has written an enormously rich and stimulating study. . . Perhaps the most definitive current work on German Jewish culture since the Enlightenment."-David Biale, Studies in Contemporary Jewry "A major contribution to the understanding of modern European Jewry [that] will establish itself as a . . . standard work on its subject."-Peter Pulzer, Slavonic Review "It is rare when one can read a work of scholarship as well ...

In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of Jewish-Christian Germans (Modern War Studies)

3 reviews
James F. Tent

University Press of Kansas, 2003

A unique, compelling and important book
When I picked up this book, I was uncertain I would find the topic all that interesting -- once started, I found I couldn't put the book down. An unheard of experience with an academic history. Professor Tent is a distinguished historian whose earlier work has been characterized by meticulous research and flawless analysis. This book is no exception, and yet it is so well-written and engrossing ...

They Laid the Foundation: Lives and Works of German-Speaking Jewish Architects in Palestine 1918-1948
Myra Warhaftig

Wasmuth, 2007

Beginning in the 1920s, and especially after the Nazis introduced the Nuremberg Race Laws in the 1930s, more than 130 Jewish architects chose to leave their native Germany and begin afresh in Palestine. Many of them, including Alex Baerwald and Harry Rosenthal, left behind significant buildings that were already central to the urban image of Berlin. Nevertheless, upon arriving in their new desert home, completely unaccustomed to the climate, the ...

Jews in the German Economy: The German-Jewish Economic Elite 1820-1935
W. E. Mosse

Oxford University Press, USA, 1987

Although it is generally accepted that the Jewish entrepreneurship played a key role in the development of the German economy from the age of early industrialization to the rise of Hitler, little is known about this small and elite group. This study of German-Jewish families and their activities reveals the full nature of their contribution to German economic development at the level of the economic elite as well as within the context of the ...

Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad
Steven E. Aschheim

Princeton University Press, 2007

The modern German-Jewish experience through the rise of Nazism in 1933 was characterized by an explosion of cultural and intellectual creativity. Yet well after that history has ended, the influence of Weimar German-Jewish intellectuals has become ever greater. Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Leo Strauss have become household names and possess a continuing resonance. Beyond the Border ...

Jews in Germany after the Holocaust: Memory, Identity, and Jewish-German Relations (Cambridge Cultural Social ...

1 review
Lynn Rapaport

Cambridge University Press, 1997

Well researched and well written.
Rapaport's first book outlines the results of her research into how Jews in postwar Germany responded to the challenges of living in the shadow of the Holocaust, the difficult questions of their sense of personal identity, and their willingness to continue to identify with German culture. This work has also been chosen by the American Sociological Association in 1998 as the best book in the ...

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