Love after Auschwitz: The Second Generation in Germany

✍ Scribed by Kurt Grünberg

• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 302
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book addresses the personal and collective abysses that may open when, albeit many years after the Holocaust, but in the very country of the murderers, one examines the legacy of the National Socialist extermination of Jews. Jewish Lebenswelt in Germany entails involvement of survivors and their sons and daughters, born after the Shoah, with the non-Jewish German world of Nazi perpetrators, supporters, bystanders and their children. Love relationships probably represent the most intimate contact between former victims and perpetrators, or their supporters.
This exploration of second-generation relationships in post-National-Socialist Germany is aimed at gaining deeper insights into what Theodor W. Adorno called the »culture after Auschwitz«. The true extent and significance of the chasm that did indeed emerge during the course of this endeavour only became apparent in retrospect. Therefore, an article about the »history« of working on »Love after Auschwitz« has been included.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword by Eva Fogelman
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. The State of Research: Selected Studies
2.1 The Survivors of the Shoah: The First Generation
2.2 The Second Generation
Transference of the Trauma to the Next Generation
Aggression and Guilt
A "Syndrome"• of the Second Generation?
Social Relationships
Love Relationships
3. Jews in Germany Today
3.1 Paradigmatic Events, Positions, and Interpretations. An Attempt to Take Stock of the Situation
"Critical" Jews and "Community Jewishness"
Jews in Germany
This is not my Country
Alien in one's own Country
The "Jewish Group"• in Frankfurt/Main
The Prolongation of History: Germans, Jews, the Palestine Conflict
Bitburg and beyond
The Historians' Dispute
The 9th of November
Reunification
The Gulf War
A Supermarket on Concentration Camp Grounds
Society for the Sponsoring of the Local History of the Administrative District of Verden
International Encounter in Stadtallendorf
Complicity and Parallel Perpetrator-Victim Structures
The Nazi Past and the German Psychoanalytical Association
The Pact of Silence
The Goldhagen Debate
Collective Guilt
Withholding the Truth, Confusion
3.2 Summary and the Formulation of Hypotheses. Concerning the Second Generation's Mental Processing of the National Socialist Persecution of Jews
4. Empirical Analyses
4.1 Method
Research Design and Sampling Frame
The Problem of the "Adequate"
Control Group
Access to the Sample and Matching Procedure
The Problem of the Representativeness of the Sample
Characteristics of the Sample
Investigation Methods
Questionnaire Investigation
Evaluation Methods
4.2 Results
Rachel G
Samuel N
Analyses of Contents
5. Discussion, Perspectives
6. Figures
7. Tables
8. Bibliography