Rootless cosmopolitans: German-Jewish writers confront the Stalinist and National Socialist atrocities

Gelbin, Cathy

doi:10.1080/13507486.2016.1203882

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“…The campaign formed part of a larger wave of party purges that swept the Eastern bloc in the early 1950s and targeted those returning from Western exile, many of them Jews, as 'internationalist' , 'Trotskyists' , and 'cosmopolitans' . 79 The ties they had built to communities and people in their various places of exile, which had played a crucial role in the global struggle against fascism, rendered them now suspicious. In response to party examinations, arrests and antisemitic attacks in the press (officially depicted as anti-Zionism), more than four hundred Jews fled the gdr in early 1952, among them several members of the communist party.…”

Section: Postwar Disillusionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exile Dreams: Antifascist Jews, Antisemitism and the ‘Other Germany’

Koch

2020

Fascism

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This article examines the meanings antifascist German Jews invested in antifascism and highlights its role as an emotional place of belonging. The sense of belonging to a larger collective enabled antifascist Jews to hold onto their Germanness and believe in the possibility of an ‘other Germany’. While most German Jewish antifascists remained deeply invested in their home country in the 1930s, this idea of the ‘other Germany’ became increasingly difficult to uphold in the face of war and genocide. For some this belief received the final blow after the end of the Second World War when they returned and witnessed the construction of German states that fell short of the hopes they had nourished while in exile. Yet even though they became disillusioned with the ‘other Germany’, they remained attached to antifascism.

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Section: Postwar Disillusionsmentioning

confidence: 99%