Language:
German
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Evangelische Theologie
Angaben zur Quelle:
83,2 (2023) 88-98
Keywords:
Jews History 1945-
;
Jews Population
;
Jews Identity
;
Holocaust survivors
;
Jews, Russian
Abstract:
The article outlines the history of the Jews in Germany since 1945 and attempts to acknowl-edge the continuing presence of the consequences of the Shoah, while at the same time trying to avoid describing Jewish life after 1945 as completely trapped in such a dependence. In addition, the role of anti-Semitism for Jewish life in Germany after 1945 is to be addressed, without understanding it as a natural constant. To this end, three aspects will be addressed: First, the development of Jewish demography, social structure and migration, secondly, the affiliation of Jews between self-descriptions and descriptions from outside, and thirdly, the political and cultural participation of Jews in German society, which also includes dealing with the permanent presence of anti-Semitism. By doing so, the article will describe several waves of reinvention of Jewish life in Germany after 1945, a process, which has not ended until today.
DOI:
10.14315/evth-2023-830204
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