Ambiguous Relations: The American Jewish Community and Germany since 1945

• Published in: Shofar Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 148 - 149
• Main Author: Diefendorf, Jeffry M.
• Format: Book Review Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: West Lafayette University of Nebraska Press 22.12.2002; Purdue University Press
• Subjects: Adenauer, Konrad (1876-1967); Arendt, Hannah; German language; Holocaust; Jewish Americans; Jewish culture; Jewish people; Jewish peoples; Nazism; Politics; Reagan, Ronald Wilson; Israel; East Germany; United States > US; Detroit Michigan; West Germany; Germany

[...] since the United States had no formal relations with East Germany until the 1970s, and since even then relations with West Germany remained of primary importance, Shafir devotes only one chapter to the contacts between organized American Jewry and the East German state.