Publisher's Synopsis
The 1992 volume of this symposium on the history of modern German Jewry includes essays on religious toleration, Jewish burial rites, historians of Jewry, orthodoxy and liberalism, the evolution of Jewish integration, Jewish historiography revised, antisemitism in the European Labour Movement, Jewish national revival, psychiatry, Nietzsche and Judaism, countering racism in Imperial Germany, the Republican defence and Weimar Jewry, travelogues, diaries and novels by German Jews, survival in hiding, upholding the Third Reich in the British and US Armies, American and Austrian antisemitism, Christians and Jews in East Germany, emigres in British film production.;The contributors include Albert H. Friedlander, Werner E. Mosse, Jehuda Reinharz, Ismar Schorsch, David Sorkin, Guy Stern, Herbert A. Strauss, Jacob Toury and Robert S. Wistrich.
