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The Resource Jewish life in Austria and Germany since 1945 : identity and communal reconstruction, Susanne Cohen-Weisz

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

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  • "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"--
  • "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"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
423 pages
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?
Isbn
9789633861035
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Jewish life in Austria and Germany since 1945 : identity and communal reconstruction
Title
Jewish life in Austria and Germany since 1945
Title remainder
identity and communal reconstruction
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Susanne Cohen-Weisz
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Subject
Language
eng
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"--
  • "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"--
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Cohen-Weisz, Susanne
Dewey number
  • 943.605304924
  • 305.8924043
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Literary form
non fiction
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  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Jews
  • Germany
  • Austria
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Jewish life in Austria and Germany since 1945 : identity and communal reconstruction, Susanne Cohen-Weisz
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-420) and index
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
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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?
Control code
ocn903473918
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
423 pages
Isbn
9789633861035
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)903473918
Label
Jewish life in Austria and Germany since 1945 : identity and communal reconstruction, Susanne Cohen-Weisz
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-420) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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?
Control code
ocn903473918
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
423 pages
Isbn
9789633861035
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)903473918

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