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The People Speak! Anti-Semitism and Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Bavaria by Rainer Liedtke is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is The People Speak! Anti-Semitism and Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Bavaria about?
memory of the Holocaust replacing religion in an increasingly secularized world as the cornerstone of Jewish identity, and, on the German side, the occurrence of ever more frequent attempts to normalize a special and complex relationship, interaction between Germans and Jews is bound to remain difficult. A particularly intriguing aspect of the study is the comparison between 'official' German-Jewish-Israeli relations and the grassroots response. Making ample use of opinion polls and trends in tourism, Wolffsohn demonstrates when and to what extent German and Israeli government policy was at odds with public opinion. Due to the unexpected release of East German files, he has been able to scrutinize the policies adopted by the German Democratic Republic as regards both the legacy of the Holocaust and the Middle East conflict. The wish of thousands of Jews to immigrate to Germany after the breakup of the Soviet Union has shown that German-Jewish relations are further complicated by the competing claims of the State of Israel's collective interests and the right of the individual Jew to self-determination. The response of German politicians has been nuanced: the administrative tolerati
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- Author
- Rainer Liedtke
- Publisher
- Journal of Jewish Studies
- Published
- 1995
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)