Research Catalog

Title

Jewish life in Austria and Germany since 1945: identity and communal reconstruction / Susanne Cohen-Weisz.

Author

Cohen-Weisz, Susanne.

Publication

New York : Central European University Press, 2016.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

423 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"Based on published primary and secondary materials and oral interviews with some eighty communal and organizational leaders, experts and scholars, this book both provides a comparative systematic account of the reconstruction of Jewish communal life in Germany and Vienna (representing 98% of Austrian Jewry) after 1945 as it developed over the next six decades, and explains the process of communal reconstruction, and its outcomes in the two countries. In particular, it focuses on the similarities and differences between the communities in regard to their political, social, institutional and identity developments, and their members' changing attitudes toward and relationship with the surrounding societies, and seeks to show how these developed in diverse national political circumstances and varying governmental policies. It will eventually prove that more influential than national politics were domestic Jewish development processes - especially changes in Jewish group identity, which shapes not only the Jewish community itself but also its view of the gentile world and its interaction with it at the national level. The comparative perspective is then broadened to reveal the key variables and their pattern of influence responsible for the developments of and within the European Jewry and European-Jewish organizations"--

Subject

• BMBF-Statusseminar
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Rüstungsautonomie und Äussere Sicherheit
• Since 1900
• Jews > Germany > History > 1945-1990
• Jews > Germany > History > 1990-
• Jews > Germany > Social conditions > 20th century
• Jews > Germany > Identity > History > 20th century
• Jews > Austria > Vienna > History > 20th century
• Jews > Austria > Vienna > Social conditions > 20th century
• Jews > Austria > Identity > History > 20th century
• Ethnic relations
• Jews
• Jews > Identity
• Jews > Social conditions
• Ethnische Identität
• Juden
• Soziale Identität
• Literature (General)
• Germany > Ethnic relations
• Austria > Ethnic relations
• Austria
• Austria > Vienna
• Germany

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "Based on published primary and secondary materials and oral interviews with some eighty communal and organizational leaders, experts and scholars, this book both provides a comparative systematic account of the reconstruction of Jewish communal life in Germany and Vienna (representing 98% of Austrian Jewry) after 1945 as it developed over the next six decades, and explains the process of communal reconstruction, and its outcomes in the two countries. In particular, it focuses on the similarities and differences between the communities in regard to their political, social, institutional and identity developments, and their members' changing attitudes toward and relationship with the surrounding societies, and seeks to show how these developed in diverse national political circumstances and varying governmental policies. It will eventually prove that more influential than national politics were domestic Jewish development processes - especially changes in Jewish group identity, which shapes not only the Jewish community itself but also its view of the gentile world and its interaction with it at the national level. The comparative perspective is then broadened to reveal the key variables and their pattern of influence responsible for the developments of and within the European Jewry and European-Jewish organizations"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-420) and index.

Contents

1945-1953: two parallel "communities" and the short-lived revitalization of Jewish life -- 1953-1980: "sitting on packed suitcases" -- 1980-2015: settled and flourishing Jewish communities -- European-Jewish identity and cooperation: the future direction of Austrial and German Jewries?.

Call Number

JFE 17-5056

ISBN

• 9789633860793 (hardbound)
• 9633860792 (hardbound)
• 9789633861035 (pbk.)
• 9633861039 (pbk.)

LCCN

2015005512

OCLC

903473918

Author

Cohen-Weisz, Susanne.

Title

Jewish life in Austria and Germany since 1945: identity and communal reconstruction / Susanne Cohen-Weisz.

Publisher

New York : Central European University Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-420) and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1900

Research Call Number

JFE 17-5056