The Holocaust and the Vicissitudes of Jewish Identity
Jack Zipes
1980
It appears rather strange that Jewish intellectuals, more than three decades after World War II, feel called upon now more than ever before to articulate for West Germans what it has meant and means to be a Jew. Three recent books of interviews and personal statements, Mein Judentum (1978), Die Zerstörung einer Zukunft (1979), and Fremd in eigenem…
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