In the first in-depth study of the Jewish population of Germany between the two world wars, Michael Brenner describes a people in the midst of redefining themselves. He shows how the Weimar Jews, participating but not assimilating in German society, created new forms of German-Jewish literature, music, fine art, education, and scholarship by dressing Jewish traditions in the garb of modern forms of cultural expression.
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Rewbirth in the most unlikely cirmcumstances:
I've read this book twice. Michael Brenner is a good writer who knows well the history of the Jews of Germany. In this book he describes how Jews- feeling threatened by Nazism- regrouped to rediscover their own culture and identity. Their efforts are extraordinary, but were they too late? This is the question that Michael Brenner argues for the reader. It is well research and has plenty of interesting not easy known details. Peter Pulzer analyzed in his own book the so called "German- Symbiosis",... more info
