The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory, Tim Grady (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2011), xi + 260 pp., hardcover 95.00, paperback 34.95
Roughly 100,000 German Jews fought in World War I, and approximately 12,000 lost their lives, yet the meaning of this sacrifice remains contested even today. Did the infamous Jewish census of November 1916 break down the German-Jewish symbiosis? Did the rising antisemitism of the Weimar era exclude...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2013
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 506-508 |
| Review of: | The German-Jewish soldiers of the First World War in history and memory (Liverpool : Liverpool Univ. Press, 2012) (Fritz, Stephen G.)
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| Summary: | Roughly 100,000 German Jews fought in World War I, and approximately 12,000 lost their lives, yet the meaning of this sacrifice remains contested even today. Did the infamous Jewish census of November 1916 break down the German-Jewish symbiosis? Did the rising antisemitism of the Weimar era exclude Jews from German society even before the rise of the Nazis? Was there ever such a thing as a German-Jewish symbiosis? Have historians and others subverted reality by placing the memory of the German-Jewish soldiers of World War I in a false framework of remembrance? These are the central questions posed by Tim Grady, and his answers are often surprising (if, in retrospect, quite reasonable). |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/dct045 |