Between Anti-Fascist Society Socialist Utopia and Lived Jewishness: What did it mean to be
Jewish in the GDR? After the Shoah many Jews made the conscious choice to live in East Germany
to be part of building a new more equitable socialist society hoping for greater justice and
to overcome antisemitic structures. This volume looks at what became of their ideals how
Jewish life was newly constituted in small communities and how the social upheavals affected
the self-image of Jews in the GDR. In cooperation with the Jewish Museum Berlin With texts by
Sandra Anusiewicz-Baer Inka Bertz Michael Brenner Lara Dämmig Sonia Combe Cathy Gelbin
Olaf Glöckner Philipp Graf Steffen Heidrich Wolfgang Herzberg Stefan Heym Barbara
Honigmann Mario Keßler Annette Leo Tamar Lewinsky Martina Lüdicke Jalda Rebling Miriam
Rürup Lisa Schoß Hermann Simon Ofer Waldman Alexander Walther and Theresia Ziehe
