%0 Journal Article
%T West German Jewry: Guilt, Power and Pluralism
%A Anthony d. Kauders
%J Quest : Issues in Contemporary Jewish History.
%D 2010
%I Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea  CDEC
%X The essay will address the history of West German Jewry using the concept of guilt as its guiding theme. Jews in West Germany had a bad conscience on account of living in the ¡°land of the murderers.¡± This bad conscience not only distinguished them from other Jewish communities, it also explains much of what characterized West German Jewry from 1945 to 1989: its particular economic structure; its especially close ties to Israel; its preoccupation with democratization; its power arrangements; and its communal life. The essay will address these issues, and trace a development that led from a close-knit, ideologically homogeneous group to one that became ever more pluralistic in the 1970s and 1980s.
%K Jews
%K West Germany
%K Shoah
%K Post-war
%K Israel
%K Zionism
%U http://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/focus.php?issue=1&id=213