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The Aryan Jesus
Was Jesus a Nazi? During the Third Reich, German Protestant theologians, motivated by racism and tapping into traditional Christian anti-Semitism, redefined Jesus as an Aryan and Christianity as a religion at war with Judaism. In 1939, these theologians established the Institute for the Study and Eradication of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life. In The Aryan Jesus, Susannah Heschel shows that during the Third Reich, the Institute became the most important propaganda organ of German Protestantism, exerting a widespread influence and producing a nazified Christianity that placed anti-Semitism at its theological center. Based on years of archival research, The Aryan Jesus examines the m...
Transcending Dystopia
Transcending Dystopia tells the story of the remarkable revival of Jewish music in postwar and Cold War Germany. Covering a wide spectrum of musical activities and geographies across the country, this book provides a panoramic view on how music contributed to transformations within and beyond Jewish communities after the Holocaust.
Shattered Spaces
After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was left in many German and Polish cities with prewar histories rich in the sights and sounds of Jewish life. What happened to this scarred landscape after the war, and how have Germans, Poles, and Jews encountered these ruins over the past sixty years? In the postwar period, city officials swept away many sites, despite protests from Jewish leaders. But in the late 1970s church groups, local residents, political dissidents, and tourists demanded the preservation of the few ruins still standing. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989, this desire to preserve and rest...
Becoming East German
For roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural approaches have increasingly shown that a single-minded emphasis on repression and coercion fails to address a number of important historical issues, including those related to the subjective experiences of those who lived under communist regimes. With that in mind, the essays in this volume explore significant physical and psychological aspects of life in the GDR, such as health and diet, leisure and dining, memories of the Nazi past, as well as identity, sports, and experiences of everyday humiliation. Situating the GDR within a broader historical context, they open up new ways of interpreting life behind the Iron Curtain – while providing a devastating critique of misleading mainstream scholarship, which continues to portray the GDR in the restrictive terms of totalitarian theory.
Zwischen Schuld und Sühne
Traces changes of attitude toward Judaism and the Holocaust in the East German Protestant Church. In the immediate postwar years, the Church of both Germanies, still united, at best expressed contrition for the passivity of its individual members in the face of Nazi persecutions, and continued to assert the need to bring Jews to Christ. Only gradually, beginning in the 1960s, did the East German Church come to acknowledge the guilt of the Church as a body, and of its theology, and to view the Jewish people as older brother and partner. Declarations of Church organs did not, however, always translate into teaching and preaching, which often clung to old anti-Jewish doctrines. When the teaching was enlightened, it was a source of knowledge for young Germans about Jews, Judaism, and the Holocaust, subjects ignored in the state schools. Interest was aroused also by commemoration of the annniversary of the "Kristallnacht" pogrom in 1978 and especially in 1988. Individuals began to form groups for contact with Jews, to promote the erection of Holocaust memorials outside churches, and to tend Jewish cemeteries.
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