Being Jewish in 21st-Century Germany

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Label

Being Jewish in 21st-Century Germany

Creator

• Glöckner, Olaf

Subject

• Jews -- Cultural assimilation -- Germany -- Congresses
• Jews -- Germany -- History -- 21st century -- Congresses
• Jews -- Germany -- Social conditions -- 21st century -- Congresses
• Germany -- Ethnic relations -- Congresses

Genre

• Congresses

Language

eng

Summary

An unexpected immigration wave of Jews from the former Soviet Union mostly in the 1990s has stabilized and enlarged Jewish life in Germany. Jewish kindergartens and schools were opened, and Jewish museums, theaters, and festivals are attracting a wide audience. No doubt: Jews will continue to live in Germany. At the same time, Jewish life has undergone an impressing transformation in the second half of the 20th centurynew Jews of Germany, ̀90 percent of them of Eastern European background, are already considered an important factor of the contemporary Jewish diaspora, they still grapple with the shadow of the Holocaust, with internal cultural clashes and with difficulties in shaping a new collective identity. What does it mean to live a Jewish life in present-day Germany? How are Jewish thoughts, feelings, and practices reflected in contemporary arts, literature, and movies? What wi

Member of

• Free online access: Knowledge Unlatched
• Europäisch-jüdische Studien, Beiträge
• Free online access: JSTOR

Cataloging source

IDEBK

Dewey number

943.084089924

Index

no index present

LC call number

DS134.27

LC item number

.B45 2015

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Europäisch-jüdische Studien - Beiträge

Series volume

v. 16