Lebenswirklichkeiten

The book deals with Jewish history and the present in Germany since 1989. The focus is on a quantitative and qualitative study in which young Russian-speaking Jews express themselves about their relationship to Germany and Israel, as well as about familiar cultures of remembrance and theirs Experiences as "Russians" and Jews in the German immigration society speak about social advancement and discrimination. Their understanding of Judaism, of largely secular life plans, but also of religious search, as well as old and new forms of Jewish communalization, are discussed. If these descriptions testify to a change in Jewish life in Germany, a historical comparative look at the special conditions of the Jewish post-war community in Germany shows that long-established and newly immigrated Jews may share more with each other than they previously assumed.