Life After Genocide in Germany: How Jewish Life Continued to Progress

Book Essay on: Jay Howard Geller, Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany: 1945-1953:
(New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 296 pages. UCSB: DS135.G332 G39 2005

by Raquel Abrahamian
December 5, 2008

for Prof. Marcuse's lecture course
Germany, 1945-present
UC Santa Barbara, Fall 2008

About Raquel Abrahamian

I am a senior history major who has always been interested in post WWII history in Europe. I have been to Europe and discovered the fascinating histories of these countries and its people. The reason I have chosen this topic is because I am interested in the dynamics of certain groups of peoples and struggles they have overcome

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Jewish life in Germany realized that in order to grow as a group, they needed to band together to make a stronger unit against fighting opposition. Jay Howard Geller concentrates his topic on the political and economic structures of Jews in Germany after the Holocaust. Eastern European Jews and German Jews needed to overcome their differences in opinion and create an organization that was capable of handling any future complications. Although, many Jews felt that Germany could no longer be a good home to them, they moved to the new state of Israel. Those who opted to stay in their familiar homes, found that getting back to normalcy needed more effort than excepted. While reparations and fighting for equal rights came at different times, life continued to progress regardless of any racial suppression. The European Jews and the German Jews gathered organizations to help lead their cause, but the process took longer than they had anticipated and realized the road to justice would be a harder fight.

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