Germans and Jews: Since the Holocaust, the Changing Situation in West Germany

by Anson Rabinbach (Editor), Jack D. Zipes

Examines the perplexing issues and polemics surrounding the recent reconsideration of the Jewish-German synthesis. In wide-ranging essays, the contributors explore the ways in which contemporary German culture and society reflect the intellectual achievements of jewish-German critical thought during the Wilhelminian and Weimar epoch, while perpetuating anti-Semitic currents in social institutions, daily life. and politics—from the pro-Arab views of the New Left to nationalistic aspirations of the Right.

365 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

Anson Gilbert Rabinbach was an American historian of modern Europe and the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, Emeritus at Princeton University. He is best known for his writings on labor, Nazi Germany, Austria, and European thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In 1973 he co-founded the journal New German Critique, which he continued to co-edit.