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Topic: German Jews


In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

  
  Where the German Ghetto Leads
They lack the deep spirituality of the Russian Jews, and that passionate inborn sense of revolt against injustice which under similar circumstances of oppression in Russia sent thousands of Jews into the vanguard of the revolutionary movement and made their fight against Czarism one of the epic events of the Russian Revolution.
But with the German shopkeeper maddened for the moment and wildly shouting "Jude, Verreckel" German Jews naturally turn to that other "nation" which they have hitherto neglected, which pleads for the aid and abilities of Jews in' the hour of its greatest emergency.
If German Jews will serve the German working class with half the zeal they showed in the service of the German shopkeeper and petty official, the Nürnberg laws will not mean a return to a red Ghetto.
newdeal.feri.org /nation/na36154.htm   (2931 words)

  
 The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Germany
Evidence of Jews in the area now known as Germany dates back to the early 4th century; in the 1930s, a Jewish graveyard from that era was found in the city of Cologne.
At the same time, the Jews were accused of killing children for ritual purposes (blood libels), of host desecration, and, during the Black Plague in the fourteenth century, of poisoning wells.
In general, the Jews migrated within Germany in the Middle Ages from the towns on the Rhine in the south to the east and the north.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/germany.html   (4137 words)

  
 Frederick Lubich
Seligmann is representative of a whole new generation of young Jews living in Germany and/or writing in German, whose parents survived the Holocaust and returned to Germany or chose Germany as their adopted homeland.
However, Gilman does not further elaborate upon the fact, that the "negative symbiosis" between Germans and Jews after 1945 seems to be increasingly marked by a masochistic mechanism in reverse.
The Jew watching the German, this reversal of power and surveillance is a Foucaultian case history of paradigmatic proportions.
www.dickinson.edu /departments/germn/glossen/heft3/lubich.html   (3459 words)

  
 Forced Emigration of German Jews
Hitler's preoccupation with lebensraum became patently obvious with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, Yugoslavia and Greece on April 6, 1941 and the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941.
Jews were blamed for all of the political and economic woes of Austria and Germany from the end of World War I. Hitler even blamed World War I on the "international Jewish economic conspiracy.
In the three months prior to the conference at Evian, several specific statutes were passed which were clearly intended to deprive Jews of their economic livelihood and to remove them from a competitive position in the German economy.
www.mtsu.edu /~baustin/emigrate.html   (1557 words)

  
 The History Place - Holocaust Timeline
Jews are banned from many professional occupations including teaching Germans, and from being accountants or dentists.
Jews taken there are placed in mobile gas vans and driven to a burial place while carbon monoxide from the engine exhaust is fed into the sealed rear compartment, killing them.
- The deportation of Jews from Lublin to Belzec.
www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html   (4366 words)

  
 German Jews   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
German Jews were disturbed with the rising populaity of the NAZIs, but did not believe they would ever gain power.
It was really they, who stuck the knife in the back of the German army which broke the resistance of the Germans, and in the year 1918, it was they who wanted to dissolve and decompose all national tradition and also moral and religious beliefs of the German people.
The ability of the NAZIs to act against the Jews was greatly expanded by the Nurrenberg Race Laws in 1935 which deprived Jews of German citizenship.
histclo.hispeed.com /essay/war/ww2/hol/ger/ger-jew.html   (1499 words)

  
 JEWS UNDER GERMAN OCCUPATION
The Germans, ever efficient and practical and having decided on the extermination of the Jews, earmarked Poland as a place to carry out their plan, as this would minimize transportation effort.
At this time, all of the Jews were murdered by the Germans, except for a few who escaped from the ghetto through sewers with the help of the underground Polish Home Army.
German losses in the uprising were three hundred killed and one thousand wounded.
www.apacouncil.org /ww2/7ju.html   (645 words)

  
 German Jews
12,000 Jews died in combat, 78% fought at the front, 30,000 were decorated and 2,000 attained the rank of an officer in the field.
If we examine the achievements of the most outstanding German Jews from their release from the ghetto by Napoleon in 1812 to the end of the German Jewish experience in 1933 we find that Jews made their most important contributions to medicine in that era.
Many of the German Jews who were able to attain any position in nineteenth century Germany were converted to Christianity “pro forma”, although everyone continued to view them as Jews just the same.
www.jbuff.com /c113000.htm   (1411 words)

  
 German Jews beyond Judaism - George L. Mosse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
In searching for a new Jewish identity after their emancipation in the early 19th-century, German Jews adopted the concept of Bildung—a term reaching beyond "education" to include character formation and moral education—as synonymous with their Jewishness.
After the German defeat in World War I, the noble elements of Bildung were coopted by the Political right.
According to Mosse, it was German Jewry's attempt to humanize nationalism that remains one of its most important legacies.
wsupress.wayne.edu /judaica/thought/mossegjbj.htm   (182 words)

  
 List of German Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion that followed the Crusades led to the appearance of Yiddish and an overall move eastwards (though Jews never fully abandoned Germany).
A change of status in the 17th century, combined with the Jewish Enlightenment – the Haskalah – meant that by the 1920s Germany had one of the most integrated Jewish populations in Europe, comprising over 500,000 people, and contributing prominently to German culture and society.
The vast majority either left the country or were killed in the Holocaust, and the current German Jewish population consists primarily of immigrants from the former Soviet Union.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_German_Jews   (421 words)

  
 Nazi Firearms Law and the Disarming of the German Jews [Free Republic]
This measure was recently made known to Jews by police stations, whereupon--apart from a few exceptions, in which the explicit nature of the ban on possession of weapons had to be articulated-- weapons until now found by the police to be in the possession of Jews who have no weapons permit were voluntarily surrendered.
Jews were ordered to repair all damage that had been done to businesses and homes on November 8-10, and the Reich confiscated Jewish insurance claims.
Germans generally longed for, it was asserted, the return of legality, freedom, and human dignity.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a4bc4bc24cb.htm   (16120 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Most Jews in Germany were proud to be Germans, citizens of a country that had produced many great poets, writers, musicians, and artists.
More than 100,000 German Jews had served in the German army during World War I, and many were decorated for bravery.
Although German Jews continued to encounter some discrimination in their social lives and professional careers, most were confident of their future as Germans.
www.ushmm.org /outreach/boycott.htm   (296 words)

  
 United Press International: Analysis: Jews flooding into Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
But in 2002, 19,262 Jews from the former Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States settled in Germany, compared with 18,878 who went to Israel and fewer than 10,000 who were admitted into the United States.
German consulates in CIS cities report that 70,000 more Jews have already applied for resettlement visas.
Feit interpreted the Jews' return to Germany as "a fulfillment of a biblical spiritual theme -- the rebirth and rejuvenation for which there are many examples in history, where Jewish people in one part of the world or another have seemed to have been eclipsed only to reappear against all odds and common expectations."
www.upi.com /view.cfm?StoryID=20030605-051223-2097r   (1034 words)

  
 KRISTALLNACHT
The intent of this meeting was two-fold: to make the Jews responsible for Kristallnacht and to use the events of the preceding days as a rationale for promulgating a series of antisemitic laws which would, in effect, remove Jews from the German economy.
The crucial question is whether the term was a Nazi euphemism for an all-out pogrom against German Jews and whether the Nazis used the term in a derisive manner.
Moreover, what disturbed the German populace was less the sight of synagogues burning (fires take place all the time, after all -- it depends on the scale) than of the savage and wasteful vandalism that confronted bystanders everywhere, disrupting the clean and orderly streets (to say nothing of consumer convenience).
www.mtsu.edu /~baustin/knacht.html   (2243 words)

  
 HAYWARD: Fate of Jews in German Hands 1/9
Jews and other anti-Revisionists have clearly found these claims about the gas chambers to be the most hurtful and distressing of the many Revisionist arguments on the Holocaust.
Around one million German prisoners of war - most forced to sleep in holes in the ground with no shelter - died of starvation, disease and exposure in mid-1945 at the hands of the French and Americans who deliberately withheld food and medical care.
Jews and other anti-Revisionists sincerely believe that the Nazis systematically exterminated many millions of people (mostly Jews) in gas chambers designed and constructed especially for the task.
www.resistance.com /Hayward/hay1.html   (12551 words)

  
 [No title]
With the emancipation of German Jews during the mid to late nineteenth century, came the desire by most Jews to assimilate into the German culture.
His group, that of the assimilationists, formed the majority of German Jews and they were the hardest hit when the reality of what was going on sunk in.
The position of German Jewry today, as it has been shaped by the German People, is wholly intolerable, both as regards their legal position and economic existence, and also as regards their public standing and their freedom of religious action...
www.cs.brandeis.edu /~philip/dej-germanjews.html   (1311 words)

  
 Jewish History 1900   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
In this poem Bialik chastised the Jews for not defending themselves in the massacre of Kishinev.
The Black Hundreds and other bands alleged that the Jews were responsible for their defeats in the Russian Japanese war and other Russian ills.
A Jew hunt was organized (one of many) to find Jews living outside the Pale.
www.davidsconsultants.com /jewishhistory/history.php?startyear=1900&en...   (3989 words)

  
 Jewish Web Index - Make it easier for you to do your personal research
It is about a group of about 1,000 Jews brought to the US from Italy in 1944 and kept in an internment camp in upstate New York for seven months after the war was over until President Truman allowed them to apply for citizenship.
Most of the local Jews were killed in the Holocaust, and only one of the town's synagogues survived.
It is entitled "The Grey Zone" and tells the story of the October 7, 1944 uprising by the Sonderkommandos, Jews who were forced to assist in the extermination of their fellow prisoners in the gas chambers.
www.jewishwebindex.com /holcaust.htm   (5061 words)

  
 German-Jews and Yiddish | Antimoon Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
At the turn of the 9th Century, the Jews of Southern France and Italy migrated to the Rhineland, at the invitation of Charlemagne to encourage economic growth in that region.
I know jews in France whose grandparents and parents spoke Ladino but the third generation is not able to speak it.
Unfortunately, the population of fluent Yiddish speakers is dwindling and there's not a whole lot of interest among younger Jews to learn the language, opting instead to learn Hebrew as the language of their culture.
www.antimoon.com /forum/2003/3286.htm   (585 words)

  
 CNN.com - German Jews target hate sites - February 19, 2001
Council Vice President Michel Friedman said it was looking to take the action because it believed the German Government was acting too slowly in applying strict national laws that ban any material seen to glorify Nazis or the deeds of the Third Reich.
Meanwhile, the Jewish Claims Conference's German office said it had so far sent application forms to 100,000 Jewish victims who are entitled to claim from a $4.8 billion fund set up by the German Government and industry.
The fund was established last year to compensate the estimated one million surviving victims of Nazi Germany's slave and forced labour programmes -- mostly non-Jews from central and eastern Europe.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/germany/02/19/internet.jews   (465 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Arnold Zweig (German Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Arnold Zweig[Ar´nOlt tsvIk] Pronunciation Key, 1887–1968, German novelist and dramatist.
A Zionist, he was denationalized under National Socialism and went to Palestine.
There he wrote about the plight of German Jews in Insulted and Exiled (1933, tr.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/Z/Zweig-Ar.html   (227 words)

  
 German Jews interned in the United States
In addition, during the evening hours many of the German internees from the United States would slip through the fencing and visit with the Panamanian group in their "huts."
In addition, Krammer found thousands of documents concerning civilian internees from the United States, about each exchange voyage, to include the names of every German citizen who was taken from Latin America to Seagoville, Texas, including groups of German-Jews.
"Passing the heavily guarded compound containing German and Japanese prisoners of war (POWs), Rabbi Israel Gerstein of Chattanooga, Tennessee, arrived at the 'room where the Jews were kept.
www.foitimes.com /internment/xchange.htm   (631 words)

  
 German Jews call game show "The Judas Game" anti-Semitic - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
It seems when they are not attacking our culture, and belittingling our religion, jews are busy being offened where no one else sees offense.
Their activities may make us sad, but the Jew delights in our sadness.
Jews are vampiric, as they sap the strength out of non-Jews, they themselves get bloated and stronger.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=114854   (455 words)

  
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