Michael Brenner is Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich and Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies at American University in Washington, DC. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and International President of the Leo Baeck Institute. Brenner's publications include A Short History of the Jews, Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History, Zionism: A Short History, and he is a contributing author to the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times.

This very readable book edited by Michael Brenner deals with the continuities and changes in the history of Jews in Germany after 1945 and for the first time constitutes a systematic history of the Jewish community in postwar Germany until the present time. Together with eight modern historians, Brenner presents a thoroughly researched chronicle and always differentiated interpretations of the events.(Neue Zürcher Zeitung) This volume, which illuminates a multi-faceted panorama of Jewish life after 1945, will remain the authoritative reading on the subject for the time to come.(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) A lot of archival work was necessary (for the first chapter). Thus, there is a huge amount of information already on the first 140 pages of this excellent work. This first part clarifies the difficult situation of Liberal, Orthodox, and Zionist Jews, who were looking for a new home.(Süddeutsche Zeitung)

• Introduction Michael BrennerBanished: Jews in Germany after the Holocaust Dan DinerPart One: Way Station 1945–1949Atina Grossmann and Tamar Lewinsky1. Displaced Persons2. An Autonomous Society3. German Jews4. Dissolution and EstablishmentPart Two: 1950–1967 Michael Brenner and Norbert Frei5. Institutional New Beginning6. Religion and Culture7. German Jews or Jews in Germany?8. After the Deed9. Germans and Jews during the Decade of the "Enlightenment"Part Three: 1968–1989 AlignmentsConstantin Goschler and Anthony Kauders10. The Jewish Community11. The Jews in German SocietyPart Four: 1990–2012New Directions12. The Russian-Jewish ImmigrationYfaat Weiss and Lena Gorelik13. A New German Jewry?Michael BrennerAppendixAcknowledgmentsTimelineChairpersons and Presidents of the Central Council of Jews in GermanyStatisticsAbbreviationsArchivesReferences

Michael Brenner is Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich and Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies at American University in Washington, DC. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and International President of the Leo Baeck Institute. Brenner's publications include A Short History of the Jews, Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History, Zionism: A Short History, and he is a contributing author to the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times.

This very readable book edited by Michael Brenner deals with the continuities and changes in the history of Jews in Germany after 1945 and for the first time constitutes a systematic history of the Jewish community in postwar Germany until the present time. Together with eight modern historians, Brenner presents a thoroughly researched chronicle and always differentiated interpretations of the events.(Neue Zürcher Zeitung) This volume, which illuminates a multi-faceted panorama of Jewish life after 1945, will remain the authoritative reading on the subject for the time to come.(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) A lot of archival work was necessary (for the first chapter). Thus, there is a huge amount of information already on the first 140 pages of this excellent work. This first part clarifies the difficult situation of Liberal, Orthodox, and Zionist Jews, who were looking for a new home.(Süddeutsche Zeitung)

• Introduction Michael BrennerBanished: Jews in Germany after the Holocaust Dan DinerPart One: Way Station 1945–1949Atina Grossmann and Tamar Lewinsky1. Displaced Persons2. An Autonomous Society3. German Jews4. Dissolution and EstablishmentPart Two: 1950–1967 Michael Brenner and Norbert Frei5. Institutional New Beginning6. Religion and Culture7. German Jews or Jews in Germany?8. After the Deed9. Germans and Jews during the Decade of the "Enlightenment"Part Three: 1968–1989 AlignmentsConstantin Goschler and Anthony Kauders10. The Jewish Community11. The Jews in German SocietyPart Four: 1990–2012New Directions12. The Russian-Jewish ImmigrationYfaat Weiss and Lena Gorelik13. A New German Jewry?Michael BrennerAppendixAcknowledgmentsTimelineChairpersons and Presidents of the Central Council of Jews in GermanyStatisticsAbbreviationsArchivesReferences

Michael Brenner is Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich and Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies at American University in Washington, DC. He is a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and International President of the Leo Baeck Institute. Brenner's publications include A Short History of the Jews, Prophets of the Past: Interpreters of Jewish History, Zionism: A Short History, and he is a contributing author to the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern Times.

This very readable book edited by Michael Brenner deals with the continuities and changes in the history of Jews in Germany after 1945 and for the first time constitutes a systematic history of the Jewish community in postwar Germany until the present time. Together with eight modern historians, Brenner presents a thoroughly researched chronicle and always differentiated interpretations of the events.(Neue Zürcher Zeitung) This volume, which illuminates a multi-faceted panorama of Jewish life after 1945, will remain the authoritative reading on the subject for the time to come.(Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) A lot of archival work was necessary (for the first chapter). Thus, there is a huge amount of information already on the first 140 pages of this excellent work. This first part clarifies the difficult situation of Liberal, Orthodox, and Zionist Jews, who were looking for a new home.(Süddeutsche Zeitung)

• Introduction Michael BrennerBanished: Jews in Germany after the Holocaust Dan DinerPart One: Way Station 1945–1949Atina Grossmann and Tamar Lewinsky1. Displaced Persons2. An Autonomous Society3. German Jews4. Dissolution and EstablishmentPart Two: 1950–1967 Michael Brenner and Norbert Frei5. Institutional New Beginning6. Religion and Culture7. German Jews or Jews in Germany?8. After the Deed9. Germans and Jews during the Decade of the "Enlightenment"Part Three: 1968–1989 AlignmentsConstantin Goschler and Anthony Kauders10. The Jewish Community11. The Jews in German SocietyPart Four: 1990–2012New Directions12. The Russian-Jewish ImmigrationYfaat Weiss and Lena Gorelik13. A New German Jewry?Michael BrennerAppendixAcknowledgmentsTimelineChairpersons and Presidents of the Central Council of Jews in GermanyStatisticsAbbreviationsArchivesReferences