The Jews of Germany have always fascinated historians, Jewish and non-Jewish. For those with a Zionist inclination the trajectory of German Jews proved the folly of assimilation and the illusion of integration. For German and German-born Jewish scholars who emerged from the wreckage of exile the question that begged for an answer was, How did this happen? Their tortured, often self-tormenting enquiries have caught the imagination of successive generations obsessed by questions of identity and belonging, especially since the 1960s.

Literary Review

Apr 2003

Categories

David Cesarani

Defies Any Parallel

Reading with Primo

Tales of Degradation and Despair

Tormented At The End

Violence and Vegetarianism

The Eagle & the Prophet

Scions of the Survivors

The Germs of Genocide

Knowing When To Run

The Argentine Connection

‘Poster Boy of the Third Reich’

‘Living Crematorium’

Out Of The Mud

Before the Storm

‘Berlin In Arabic’

Never Again?

The Fuhrer’s Mouthpiece

Man of Many Faces

Passive Resistance

Testimony

Oskar’s Story

Striped Pyjamas

The Root of Conflict

Lethal Indifference