A Jew in the New Germany

by Henryk Broder, Sander L. Gilman, Lilian Friedberg

Overview

Henryk Broder, one of the most controversial and engaging writers in Germany today, has been a thorn in the side of the Establishment for thirty years. The son of two Polish Holocaust survivors, Broder is not only a trenchant political critic and observant social essayist but an invaluable chronicler of the Jewish experience in late twentieth-century Germany. 
 
This volume collects eighteen of Broder's essays, translated for the first time into English. The first was written in 1979 and the most recent deals with the post-9/11 realities of the war on terrorism, and its effects on the countries of Europe. Other essays address the debate over the construction of a Holocaust memorial in Berlin, the German response to the 1991 Gulf War, the politics of German reunification, and the rise of the new German nationalism.
 
Broder charts the recent evolution of German Jewish relations, using his own outsider status to hold up a mirror to the German people and point out that things have not changed for German Jews as much as non-Jews might think.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252028564
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	11/19/2003
Series:	Humanities Labortory
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Eighteen of Broder’s essays from 1979 - 2001, exposing the contradictory attitudes of Germans toward the Jews and the hypocritical stances often assumed by the Jewish establishment in Germany. Broder is one of the most widely read essayist in Germany. His writing is described as sharp, colorful, funny and controversial.
 

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Introduction	ix
1.	Why I Would Rather Not Be a Jew--and If I must, Then Rather Not in Germany (1979)	1
2.	You Are Still Your Parents' Children
	The New German Left and Everyday Anti-Semitism	21
	Why I Am Leaving (1981)	36
3.	Heimat?--No Thanks! (1987)	37
4.	Don't Forget to Differentiate! (1987)	43
5.	I Love Karstadt (1987)	46
6.	Our Kampf (1991)	58
7.	Just between Germans (1994)	70
8.	A Beautiful Revolution (1994)	76
9.	A Hopeless Enlightenment (1994)	80
10.	The Republic of Simulators (1994)	84
11.	Ostalgia: The GDR Is Back (1996)	91
12.	The Germanization of the Holocaust (1996)	102
13.	Problem, Shock, and Trauma (1998)	113
14.	You're Not Dead till You Give Up the Fight (1998)	118
15.	Tagar and the Teepee Family (1998)	122
16.	To Each His Own (1999)	130
17.	To Each Her Market Value (1999)	133
18.	Just in Time: A Catholic Casuist on the Front in the War on Terror (2002)	139
	Index	147