A Jew in the New GermanyHenryk Broder, one of the most controversial and engaging writers in Germany today, has been a thorn in the side of the Establishment for thirty years. The son of two Polish Holocaust survivors, Broder is not only a trenchant political critic and observant social essayist but an invaluable chronicler of the Jewish experience in late twentieth-century Germany. This volume collects eighteen of Broder's essays, translated for the first time into English. The first was written in 1979 and the most recent deals with the post-9/11 realities of the war on terrorism, and its effects on the countries of Europe. Other essays address the debate over the construction of a Holocaust memorial in Berlin, the German response to the 1991 Gulf War, the politics of German reunification, and the rise of the new German nationalism. Broder charts the recent evolution of German Jewish relations, using his own outsider status to hold up a mirror to the German people and point out that things have not changed for German Jews as much as non-Jews might think. |
Contents
Why I Would Rather Not Be a Jewand If I Must Then Rather Not in Germany 1979 | 1 |
You Are Still Your Parents Children The New German Left and Everyday AntiSemitism | 21 |
Am Leaving 1981 | 36 |
Heimat?No Thanks 1987 | 37 |
Dont Forget to Differentiate 1987 | 43 |
Love Karstadt 1987 | 46 |
Die Republik der Simulanten in Erbarmen mit den Deutschen 4754 | 47 |
Our Kampf 1991 | 58 |
The Republic of Simulators 1994 | 84 |
The GDR Is Back 1996 | 91 |
Ratlose Aufklärer in Schöne Bescherung Unterwegs im neuen Deutschland | 95 |
The Germanization of the Holocaust 1996 | 102 |
Problem Shock and Trauma 1998 | 113 |
Youre Not Dead till You Give Up the Fight 1998 | 118 |
To Each His Own 1999 | 130 |
A Catholic Casuist on the Front | 139 |
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References to this book
Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955-2005 Deniz Göktürk,David Gramling,Anton Kaes Limited preview - 2007 |