Description
The unexpected immigration wave from the former Soviet Union has stabilized and enlarged Jewish life in Germany up from the 1990ies. No doubt: Jews will continue to live in Germany. But what does it mean to live a Jewish life in present Germany? How is it reflected in culture? Who are the new Jewish elites, and how successful is the fight against old and new forms of anti-Semitism? 20 authors look for answers on these and on related questions.
Chapter
The Making of Holocaust Trauma in German Memory. Some Reflection about Robert Thalheim’s Film And Along Come Tourists
Saving the German-Jewish Legacy? On Jewish and Non-Jewish Attempts of Reconstructing a Lost World
Migration as the Driving Factor of Jewish Revival in Re-Unified Germany
Germany’s Russian-speaking Jews. Between Original, Present and Affective Homelands
Russian Food Stores and their Meaning for Jewish Migrants in Germany and Israel. Honor and ‘Nostalgia’
Moving from the Present via the Past to Look toward the Future. Jewish Life in Germany Today
Israelis and Germany. A Personal Perspective
Culture and Arts – Reflecting a New Jewish Presence
Reconceptualization of Jewish Identity as Reflected in Contemporary German-Jewish Humorist Literature
Hava Nagila. A Personal Reflection on the Reception of Jewish Music in Germany
Aliyah Le Berlin. A Documentary about the Next Chapter of Jewish Life in Berlin
Ghosts of the Past, Challenges of the Present: Germany Facing Old-New Anti-Semitism
Educated Anti-Semitism in the Middle of German Society. Empirical Findings
Anti-Semitism within the Extreme Right and Islamists’ Circles
Thrice Tied Tales. Germany, Israel, and German Muslim Youth
Towards New Shores: Jewish Education and the Religious Revival
New Structures of Jewish Education in Germany
A Vision Come True. Abraham Geiger and the Training of Rabbis and Cantors for Europe