German History from the Margins [Hardcover]

German History from the Margins offers new ways of thinking about ethnic and religious minorities and other outsiders in modern German history. Many established paradigms of German history are challenged by the contributors new and often provocative findings, including evidence of the striking cosmopolitanism of Germanys 19th-century eastern border communities; German Jewrys sophisticated appropriation of the discourse of tribe and race; the unexpected absence of antisemitism in Weimars campaign against smut; the Nazi embrace of purportedly Jewish sexual behavior; and post-war West Germanys struggles with ethnic and racial minorities despite its avowed liberalism. Germanys minorities have always been active partners in defining what it is to be German, and even after 1945, despite the legacy of the Nazis murderous destructiveness, German society continues to be characterized by ethnic and cultural diversity.

Neil Gregor is Reader in Modern German History at the University of Southampton.

Nils Roemer is Lecturer in Jewish History at the James Parkes Centre, University of Southampton.

Mark Roseman holds the Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University.

Acknowledgments
Introduction Neil Gregor, Nils Roemer, and Mark Roseman
1. Germans of the Jewish Stamm: Visions of Community between Nationalism and Particularism, 1850 to 1933 Till van Rahden
2. Identity and Essentialism: Race, Racism, and the Jews at the Fin de Si?cle Yfaat Weiss
3. Prussia at the Margins, or the World That Nationalism Lost Helmut Walser Smith
4. V?lkisch-Nationalism and Universalism on the Margins of the Reich: A Comparison of Majority and Minority Liberalism in Germany, 18981933 Eric Kurlander
5. Volksgemeinschaften unter sich : German Minorities and Regionalism in Poland, 191839 Winson Chu
6. A Margin at the Center: The Conservatives in Lower Saxony between Kaiserreich and Federal Republic Frank B?sch
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