...This chapter examines the relation between being German and being Jewish. It analyzes how Jews in German-speaking Europe would become such enthusiastic chauvinists in the cause of German culture, particularly when seen through the prism of the Holocaust. The chapter discusses the case of Jewish...

... for music throughout the rest of the twentieth century. Because Jewish musicians and composers were, by 1933, the principal conveyors of Germany's historic traditions and the ideals of German culture, the isolation, exile, and persecution of Jewish musicians by the Nazis became an act of musical self...

...This chapter discusses Bernhard Diebold, otherwise known as “Bernhardo Dieboldo.” According to the chapter, he was one of the most capricious figures ever to frolic at the forefront of German culture—a journalist who is still permitted his freedom thanks to his nimble manoeuvrings...

... had not, however, required the German government to sign any special protection treaty regarding Jews. Leaders of the central Jewish organizations in Germany had never sought a legal minority status. On the contrary, they claimed to be an integral part of the German cultural community, a religious...

...This chapter discusses the creation of a post-Nazi state whose leaders celebrated cultural pluralism instead of uniformity, focusing particularly on the remarkable public campaign of the late 1950s to reintegrate Jews into German culture. Scholars of German history have often argued...

...This chapter examines how the Nazi authorities used the Deutsche Tauchnitz series—which consisted of “special editions of modern German novels, to be disseminated for propaganda purposes only in countries outside Germany that Hitler occupies”—in an attempt to make German culture accessible...

...This book chronicles the rise and fall of one of Germany's most iconic cities in this history of Weimar. Weimar was a centre of the arts during the Enlightenment and hence the cradle of German culture in modern times. Johann Wolfgang Goethe and Friedrich von Schiller made their reputations here...