Democratization and the Jews: Munich, 1945-1965Published 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. |
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... Juden ) . His intention may in turn be gleaned from the context of his speech : a party meeting , an interview with American journalists , a longer piece in the local newspaper . Both locutionary and illocutionary acts thus help to show ...
... Juden in der Weimarer Republik ( Tübingen 1996 ) . 28. The importance of " liberal " democracy was of course acknowledged by politicians and legal experts in numerous debates concerning the constitutions of the federal state and Länder ...
... Juden , Christen , Judenchristen ( Bern and Munich 1965 ) , 7-8 . See also idem , Philosemitismus im Barock : Religions- und geistesgeschichtliche Untersu- chungen ( Tübingen 1952 ) . Schoeps is most concerned with British Calvinism and ...
... Juden in der Bundesrepublik ( Berlin 1991 ) , although the only article in the volume that deals specifically with " philosemitism ” is the one by Frank Stern . 81. Frank Stern , " From Overt Philosemitism to Discreet Antisemitism , and ...
... Juden : Die deutschland - politische Instrumentalisierung von Juden und Judentum durch die Partei- und Staatsführung der SBZ / DDR von 1945 bis 1990 ( Frankfurt 1997 ) ; and Ulrike Offenberg , " Seid vorsichtig gegen die Machthaber ...
Contents
History as Pedagogy Munichs Jewish Community after the War | 38 |
History as Memory Democracy and Antisemitism 19451949 | 65 |
History and Memory in the Economic Miracle Dormancy and Difference 19491957 | 137 |
History as Change Jews as Fellow Beings 19581965 | 201 |