| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Book Review

Europe: Early Modern and Modern

Jay Howard Geller. Jews in Post-Holocaust Germany, 1945–1953. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2005. Pp. xiii, 330. Cloth $70.00, paper $24.99.

How the remnant of Jews who found themselves in Germany at the end of World War II restored a stable and successful Jewish communal life is a remarkable story, well and clearly told in this monograph by Jay Howard Geller. German-speaking Jews who had somehow survived Adolf Hitler's regime, either underground or not yet destroyed by the machinery of the Final Solution, and those who returned from exile were outnumbered by largely Yiddish-speaking displaced persons (DPs) from the East who were anxious to move on to Palestine or some place more hospitable than Germany. These two groups had often failed to get along in the past; their traumatic recent history made them only somewhat less fractious. Complicating the restoration of Jewish life on German soil were conflicting authorities in the zones of occupation, the rivalries of the reemerging German political parties, and international Jewish organizations that were generally hostile to the idea of a permanent Jewish presence in Germany. The creation of East and West German governments, the start of the Cold War, the birth of the State of Israel, Stalinist purges, and renascent antisemitism in Eastern Europe added yet another layer of difficulties for Jews in Germany.

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