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The Jewish Community in Germany: Living with Recognition, Anti-Semitism and Symbolic Roles

October 29, 2009 | Dr. Susanne Urban

This article deals with the diverse images of Jews in Germany: which roles they take upon themselves and which symbolic roles German society sees in the Jewish community. The author tries to unfold the origins and the meaning of these roles including Jews as victims, as sensors toward anti-Semitism and right-wing extremism.

Rivkah Fishman-Duker on The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany

October 16, 2009 | Rivkah Fishman-Duker

Nazis for Jesus/Jesus for Nazis The Aryan Jesus: Christian Theologians and the Bible in Nazi Germany by Susannah Heschel. Princeton University Press, 2008, 339 pp. Reviewed by Rivkah Fishman-Duker