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- Title
Returning to Stay? Jews in East and West Germany after the Holocaust.
- Authors
Sinn, Andrea A.; Hagemann, Karen; Jarausch, Konrad H.; Hof, Tobias
- Abstract
To better understand the position of Jews within Germany after the end of World War II, this article analyzes the rebuilding of Jewish communities in East and West Germany from a Jewish perspective. This approach highlights the peculiarities and sometimes sharply contrasting developments within the Jewish communities in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic, from the immediate postwar months to the official East-West separation of these increasingly politically divided communities in the early 1960s. Central to the study are the policies of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, which exemplify the process of gradual divergence in the relations between East and West German Jewish communities, that, as this article demonstrates, paralleled and mirrored the relations between non-Jewish Germans in the two countries.
- Subjects
GERMANY; HISTORY of German Jews -- 1945-; HOLOCAUST, 1939-1945; ZENTRALRAT der Juden in Deutschland; INTER-German relations, 1945-1990; WEST German history; EAST German history; GERMAN history, 1945-
- Publication
Central European History (Cambridge University Press / UK), 2020, Vol 53, Issue 2, p393
- ISSN
0008-9389
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0008938920000163