Das jüdische Frankfurt – von der NS-Zeit bis zur Gegenwart

Stefan Vogt and Christian Wiese (eds.)
Das jüdische Frankfurt – von der NS-Zeit bis zur Gegenwart
Kontexte zur jüdischen Geschichte Hessens
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(Jewish Frankfurt – from the Nazi Era to the Present)
Contexts of Jewish History in Hesse

De Gruyter Oldenbourg publishing houese, Berlin 2024
ISBN: 9783111264653
444 pages
89.95 EUR
(also available as an e-book)

Until 1933, Frankfurt am Main was one of the most important centres of Jewish life and culture in Europe. The city had a large Jewish community, whose members were pillars of the city's society. During the National Socialist regime, however, Frankfurt's Jews were systematically disenfranchised, persecuted and murdered, and the Jewish communities were dissolved. This volume is dedicated to the history of Jewish Frankfurt in the Nazi state and traces its threat and destruction. It asks how Frankfurt's Jews experienced exclusion from urban society and persecution, what was irretrievably lost in the process, and how the intellectual and cultural heritage of Jewish Frankfurt was able to continue to have an impact in exile. Under the protection of the US military administration, a new Jewish community was founded in the post-war period, several Jewish organisations settled in the city and new Jewish life developed. The volume also deals with this history up to the 1980s, when Frankfurt in particular provided important impulses for a new visibility of the Jewish community in the Federal Republic. Under what conditions was the Jewish community re-established and how did Jews return to the centre of Frankfurt's urban society in the post-war decades?

The editors:

• Stefan Vogt, born in 1968, is a historian and teaches at Goethe University in Frankfurt.
• Christian Wiese, born in 1961, is a research assistant at the Chair of Jewish Studies at the University of Erfurt, with a research focus on modern Jewish history and Jewish Philosophy.