1st Edition
Jewish Life in Austria and Germany Since 1945 Identity and Communal Reconstruction
By Susanne Cohen-Weisz
Copyright 2016
424 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Based on published primary and secondary materials and oral interviews with some eighty communal and organizational leaders, experts and scholars, this book provides a comparative account of the reconstruction of Jewish communal life in both Germany and in Austria (where 98% live in the capital, Vienna) after 1945. The author explains the process of reconstruction over the next six decades, and... Read more
List of Tables and Figures, Preface, Glossary, chapter 1 Introduction, chapter 2 1945–1953 ? Two Parallel “Communities” and the Short-Lived Revitalization of Jewish Life, chapter 3 1953–1980 ? “Sitting on Packed Suitcases”, chapter 4 1980–2015 ? Settled and Flourishing Jewish Communities, chapter 5 European-Jewish Identity and Cooperation: The Future Direction of Austrian and German Jewries?, chapter 6 Conclusion, Index
Biography
Susanne Cohen-Weisz holds a BA from Bar Ilan University, an MA in International Relations and a PhD in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she also did post-doctoral research and served as lecturer.
