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A Jew in the New Germany (Hardcover)
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A Jew in the New Germany (Hardcover)
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Henryk Broder, one of the most controversial and engaging writers
in Germany today, has been a thorn in the side of the Establishment
for thirty years. The son of two Polish Holocaust survivors, Broder
is not only a trenchant political critic and observant social
essayist but an invaluable chronicler of the Jewish experience in
late twentieth-century Germany. This volume collects eighteen of
Broder's essays, translated for the first time into English. The
first was written in 1979 and the most recent deals with the
post-9/11 realities of the war on terrorism and its effects on the
countries of Europe. Other essays address the debate over the
construction of a Holocaust memorial in Berlin, the German response
to the 1991 Gulf War, the politics of German reunification, and the
rise of the new German nationalism. A Jew in the New Germany
showcases Broder's biting wit, his sense of history, and his
ability to draw broader connections between what appear at first
glance to be minor or isolated incidents. In these essays he charts
the recent evolution of German Jewish relations, using his own
outsider status to hold up a mirror to the German people and point
out that things have not changed for German Jews as much as
non-Jews might think. Again and again he shows himself to be
chillingly prophetic, especially regarding Israel and the crisis in
the Middle East. A Jew in the New Germany is a bold new addition to
the German Jewish tradition of caustic cultural commentary from a
writer whose perspicacity and candor have turned him from a voice
in the wilderness to one of the most widely read essayists in
Germany today.
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