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Susanne Simor
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Diagnosis: Hatred of Jews

Helmut Zeller Eva Gruberová

The return of a German disease

After the attack on the synagogue in Halle in 2019 and the massive spread of anti-Semitic conspiracy myths in the Corona crisis, this image of Jewish life in Germany became deeply fissured. What do Jews experience in their everyday life in Germany?

Eva Gruberová and Helmut Zeller travelled through Germany and listened Jewish voices - from Rostock via Berlin to Dortmund and Munich, with a detour to Vienna. Jews in this country cannot lead a normal life unless one consideres police and security fences in front of Jewish kindergartens, attacks on synagogues, swastikas on school benches, destroyed gravestones, Hitler greetings and student selfies at concentration camp memorials as part of German normality. Jews have been the target of right-wing extremist attacks and assassination attempts not only since Halle, but for decades. They experience attacks and hostility also from Muslim milieus suffering themselves from racism. But many do not see: Anti-Semitism came and still comes from the "bourgeois middle class". The reports, interviews and analyses make it clear that hatred of Jews is deeply rooted in society - and concerns us all.


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Main content page count: 256 Pages