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Why I Would Rather Not Be a Jew—and If I Must, Then Rather Not in Germany
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When it came time for me to start school, my mother went to the director of the Wilhelm Pieck School in Katowice, Poland, where we were living then, to register me. My sister, nine years my senior…

Contributor:

Henryk M. Broder

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1979

Subjects:

Antisemitism, Holocaust, Jewish identity, Nationalism, Migration

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography
No Exit from This Jewry
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I—a Jewess—am by definition not a member of the species, or: why should a Jewess not have problems with public assistance and with her children? The postwar German Jew, to the extent that such a being…

Contributor:

Esther Dischereit

Places:

Berlin, Germany

Date:

1994

Subjects:

Government, Antisemitism, Holocaust, Jewish identity

Categories:

Political Culture, Firsthand Accounts
Letter to Gershom Scholem
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Berlin-Grunewald Tauberstr. 16 February 26, 1970 Dear Mr. Scholem, Writing this letter does not come easily to me; hence the long delay. And now you know already that I have not been able to decide in…

Contributor:

Peter Szondi

Places:

Berlin, West Germany (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1970

Subjects:

Scholarship, Aliyah, Holocaust, Antisemitism

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters, Pedagogy & Schooling