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The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany

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I've read this book twice. Michael Brenner is a good writer who knows well the history of the Jews of Germany. In this book he describes how Jews- feeling threatened by Nazism- regrouped to rediscover their own culture and identity. Their efforts are extraordinary, but were they too late? This is the question that Michael Brenner argues for the reader. It is well research and has plenty of interesting not easy known details.

Peter Pulzer analyzed in his own book the so called "German- Symbiosis", Brenner proves him to be correct: it was, indeed a sham. There was never such a thing! It was the German-Jews who loved Germany more, than the Germans loved the Jews.

This book is important for all readers interested in Germany, the Jews and the Nazi period. The Jewish Renaissance, thus, happened at the most incredible of times.



I recommend it highly.