After the Holocaust:
Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany
Michael Brenner
Translated from the German by Barbara Harshav

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Preface to the English Edition
	Introduction	3
I	Historical Overview	7
II	Witness Accounts	79
1	Ernest Landau: The First Days of Freedom	79
2	Julius Spokojny: Zionist Activist in the DP Camp	87
3	Arno Lustiger: Keeping the Memory Alive	90
4	Norbert Wollheim: Jewish Autonomy in the British Zone	95
5	Heinz Galinski: New Beginning of Jewish Life in Berlin	100
6	Estrongo Nachama: The Singer of Auschwitz	102
7	Nathan Peter Levinson: The Functions of a Rabbi in Postwar Germany	107
8	Josef Warscher: From Buchenwald to Stuttgart	111
9	Wolf Weil: A "Schindler Jew" in the Bavarian Province	114
10	Arno Hamburger: Coming Home in the Uniform of the Jewish Brigade	117
11	David Schuster: Restoration of a Small Jewish Community	120
12	Simon Snopkowski: The Jewish Student Association	122
13	Lilli Marx: Renewal of the German-Jewish Press	125
14	E. G. Lowenthal: On Behalf of the Jewish Aid Organization	130
III	Five Decades of Jewish Life in Postwar Germany	135
IV	Interview with Ignatz Bubis, President of the Central Council of the Jews in Germany, on the Situation of German Jewry (July 1994)	159
	Appendix: Bibliographical Essay	163
	Notes	173
	Index	187

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