Jews In Contemporary East Germany: The Children Of Moses In The Land Of Marx (english And German Edition)

Annotation This book is the result of a series of interviews of Robin Ostow with Jews in the German Democratic Republic. For the first time since the founding of the East German state in 1949 Jews have been allowed to speak openly. Jewish men and women of different ages were interviewed Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-9 Front Matter....Pages 11-12 The Jewish Community in East Berlin....Pages 13-24 Social Work and the Jewish Community in East Berlin....Pages 25-34 The Jewish Community and the Preservation of Jewish Culture in East Berlin....Pages 35-42 A Newcomer to the Jewish Community....Pages 43-54 Jewish Education and the Jewish Youth in East Berlin....Pages 55-57 Front Matter....Pages 59-60 A Yiddish Folksinger in the Bosom of the Party....Pages 61-72 A Jewish Existentialist at the Academy of Sciences....Pages 73-82 Returning to Berlin from the Soviet Union....Pages 83-90 Jews, Germans and Psychotherapy in the German Democratic Republic....Pages 91-102 From Germany to the German Democratic Republic via Palestine, France and the USA....Pages 103-109 Front Matter....Pages 111-112 The View from West Berlin....Pages 113-126 The Unorthodox View of Jewish History in the German Democratic Republic....Pages 127-140 Afterword....Pages 141-148 Back Matter....Pages 149-169 Twelve transcribed interviews with Jews in the German Democratic Republic, among them two historians, a philosopher, a sociologist, a social worker, a psychotherapist, a singer. Subjects the history and structure of the Jewish community, the experience of living as a Jew, and the role of Jews in public life in East Germany. Acidic paper. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.