Everyday Realities

They also discuss their understanding of Judaism, of predominantly secular lifestyles and of the search for religion, as well as old and new forms of Jewish communalization. While these narratives testify to a change in Jewish life in Germany, Andreas Gotmann shows through a historically comparative examination of the special conditions of Jewish post-war society in Germany that long-time residents and newly immigrated Jews may share more with one another than they had previously thought.

Dr. Karen Körber is on the academic staff of the Institute for the History of the German Jews (Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden, IGdJ), Hamburg. She was a fellow at the Jewish Museum Berlin from 2012 to 2014.

Prof. Dr Andreas Gotzmann teaches Jewish Studies at the University of Erfurt with a special focus on Jewish religious and cultural history.