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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... " History as Censure : ' Repression ' and ' Philosemitism ' in Postwar Germany , " History and Memory 15 , no . 1 ( 2003 ) : 97-122 . Contents List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction : Democratization and the.
... philosemitism.29 This discussion starts from the premise that " understanding any proposition ( of an antisemitic nature , for example ) requires us to identify the question to which the proposition may be regarded as an answer , " so ...
... philosemitism , has been influential in recent studies of " German - Jewish " relations after 1945 , and continues to inform the understanding of many scholars working in the field . Both interpretations ostensibly refer to developments ...
... philosemitism , not the least in order to demonstrate the difficulties inherent in any exposition of philosemitism in modern German history . Surprisingly enough , most of these studies take over the definitions of surveys that mainly ...
... philosemitism " with philosophical consequentialism ( or utilitarianism ) , the latter is all the more intent on showing that " one cannot automatically dismiss as non - philo - Semitic actions that , although beneficial to Jews ...
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 |