Unlikely History The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis, 1945-2000

Since 1945, the Jewish population in Germany has grown steadily and there is a flourishing of "Jewish" culture. Does this development mean that Jews are playing a significant role in German social life or that the German-Jewish relationship, often referred to as a kind of symbiosis, has re-emerged? The essays in this book cover the changes in German society since 1945 in Jewish communities, literature, theater, film, architecture, and other areas including an examination of the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Austria.

Leslie Morris is Assistant Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. He is co-author of Germans and Jews Since the Holocaust with Anson Rabinbach.

Jack Zipes is Professor of German at the University of Minnesota. She is co-editor of Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany and the author of numerous articles about German-Jewish Literature.