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Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953 »

Book cover image of Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945-1953 by Jay Howard Geller

Authors: Jay Howard Geller
ISBN-13: 9780521541268, ISBN-10: 0521541263
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: December 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Jay Howard Geller

Jay Howard Geller is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tulsa. His articles have appeared in the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book and The Journal of Military History. He has contributed chapters in Konrad Adenauer Israel und das Judentum, edited by Hanns Jürgen Küsters, and entries in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Antisemitism, H-Net Humanities & Social Sciences Online, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Europe since 1945: An Encyclopedia.

Book Synopsis

This is the story of how Jewish survivors of the Holocaust re-established their organized communities in Germany.

Table of Contents

1Liberation, disunity, and divided organization in Western Germany17
2Two communities unite in West Germany53
3The challenge of Jewish life under Soviet occupation90
4Politicians and political parties before 1950123
5Jewish organization between state and party in East Germany160
6The Jewish community and the West German government before reparations185
7West Germany and reparations to Israel and World Jewry219
8The central council's external relations and internal reforms after the Luxembourg agreement257

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