Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
European Judaism
Angaben zur Quelle:
33,2 (2000) 4-19
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Jewish literature History and criticism
Abstract:
Discusses Jews in postwar (mainly post-1991) Germany, particularly in Berlin, as foreigners in a society that eliminated its Jews in the Holocaust, including by driving many of them into exile. Deals with the challenges posed by such exiles or "foreigners" who have returned to Germany, which has continued, as under the Nazis, to exclude them by categorizing them as the "Other". Stresses that Berliners need to include the city's Jews in their historiography in order to understand themselves, but they appear more interested in their own "loss" than in the fate of the Jews. Foreignness is perceived as exotic or instrumental; returning exiles are welcomed when they can be perceived as coming "home" and forgetting the past. Antisemitism is perceptible today amidst calls for limiting Jewish immigration to "not too many" and "not too foreign."
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