Democratization and the Jews: Munich, 1945-1965 - Couverture rigide

Kauders, Anthony D.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0803227639 ISBN 13 : 9780803227637

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2004

Synopsis

Published for the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

Democratization and the Jews explores the ways in which West Germans in Munich responded after 1945 to the Holocaust. Examining the political and religious discourse on the "Jewish Question," Anthony D. Kauders shows how men and women in the immediate postwar era employed antisemitic images from the Weimar Republic in order to distance themselves from the murderous policies of the Nazi regime. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, many people--and particularly Social Democrats and members of the churches, both Catholic and Protestant--began to repudiate antisemitism altogether, appreciating the connection between liberal democracy, on the one hand, and the rejection of hatred of Jews, on the other. This change was a revolutionary moment in the democratization of the Federal Republic, as the language of liberalism merged with the spirit of democracy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Anthony D. Kauders teaches in the Department of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. He is the author of German Politics and the Jews: Dusseldorf and Nuremberg, 1910-1933.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803227639
• ISBN 13: 9780803227637
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 330
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible