Between national socialism and Soviet communism: displaced persons in postwar Germany

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (07) ◽  
pp. 49-4039-49-4039
Keyword(s):  
National Socialism ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
Soviet Communism

In the Midst of Rubble

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-38
Author(s):  
Tina Frühauf
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
Religious Service ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
Musical Practices

The reestablishment of the Jewish community of Berlin, the largest in prewar and postwar Germany, is examined across the city’s four sectors, focusing on the role music played in religious service, social life, and concert. Between 1945 and 1949, musical practices adhered to prewar models that largely relied on cantors, organists, and singers who had been active in the community before 1945, among them Leo Gollanin and Arthur Zepke. At times, the cultural interests and outlets of the community intersected with that of the Displaced Persons and the occupying forces, such as in charity concerts.

Restoring and Reconstructing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea A. Sinn
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Federal Republic ◽  
Jewish Community ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
World War ◽  
Postwar Germany ◽  
German Jews ◽  
The City

This chapter examines the path toward recovery of the Jewish community in the city of Munich after World War II. In the immediate aftermath of World War II, a small group of German Jews settled in larger cities outside the displaced persons camps. Against all odds, these Jews began to engage in the process of restoring Jewish communal structures in Germany. The chapter considers the process of restoring and rebuilding Jewish life in postwar Germany as well as the tensions between Jewish displaced persons, German Jews, and international Jewish organizations over the question of whether to remain or to leave. It suggests that the path toward recovery of the Jewish community in the Federal Republic of Germany was made possible by the emergence of a group identity among the so-called stayers and a change in mindset regarding Jewish life in Germany within the global Jewish community.

Escaping from Sodom: A Christian Jew Encounters German Antisemitism

2013 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 787-826
Author(s):  
NICHOLAS RAILTON
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Jewish Christians

The article discusses the impact of antisemitism on Jewish Christians in twentieth-century Germany. The fate of one Jewish Christian from an Orthodox Jewish background, Maly Kagan, is used to highlight overarching themes. The article focuses on the impact of National Socialism on her work in a Protestant psychiatric hospital and for the London-based Hebrew Christian Testimony to Israel. Light is shed on how she survived the Holocaust, her work with displaced persons in Frankfurt after the war and her decision in 1952 to leave Germany to spend the rest of her life in Israel.

Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 100-113
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Social Change ◽  
National Socialism ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Postwar Germany

William Collins Donahue, Holocaust as Fiction: Bernhard Schlink's “Nazi“ Novels and Their Films(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)Reviewed by Margaret McCarthyTheodor W. Adorno, Guilt and Defense: On the Legacies of National Socialism in Postwar Germany, edited, translated, and introduced by Jeffrey K. Olick and Andrew J. Perrin (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010)Reviewed by Gregory R. Smulewicz-ZuckerFriedrich Pollock, Theodor W. Adorno, and Colleagues, Group Experiment and other Writings: The Frankfurt School on Public Opinion in Postwar Germany, edited and translated by Andrew J. Perrin and Jeffrey K. Olick (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011).Reviewed by Jan BoestenGabriele Mueller and James M. Skidmore, eds. Cinema and Social Change in Germany and Austria(Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012).Reviewed by Sabine von MeringChristopher J. Fischer, Alsace to the Alsatians? Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939(New York: Berghahn Books, 2010)Reviewed by Jennifer A. Yoder

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