Unlikely history : the changing German-Jewish symbiosis, 1945-2000 / edited by Leslie Morris and Jack Zipes.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-325) and index.

German and Jewish obsession / Leslie Morris and Jack Zipes -- Encounters across the void : rethinking approaches to German-Jewish symbioses / Karen Remmler -- The rift and not the symbiosis / Katja Behrens -- The transformation of the German-Jewish community / Michael Brenner -- Home and displacement in a city of bordercrossers : Jews in Berlin 1945-1948 / Atina Grossmann -- Jewish existence in Germany from the perspective of the non-Jewish majority : daily life between anti-semitism and philo-semitism / Wolfgang Benz -- Austrian exceptionalism : Haider, the European Union, the Austrian past and present : an inimical world for the Jews / Andrei S. Markovits -- Anti-semitism in East Germany, 1952-1953 : denial to the end / Mario Kessler -- Reading "between the lines" : Daniel Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum and the shattered symbiosis / Noah Isenberg -- The critical embracement of Germany : Hans Mayer and Marcel Reich-Ranicki / Jack Zipes -- Return to Germany : German-Jewish authors seeking address / Pascale R. Bos -- The Janus-faced Jew : Nathan and Shylock on the postwar German stage / Anat Feinberg -- Fritz Kornter's last illusion / Robert Shandley -- Comic vision and "negative symbiosis" in Maxim Biller's Harlem holocaust and Rafael Seligmann's Der Musterjude / Rita Bashaw -- German and Austrian Jewish women's writing at the millennium / Dagmar Lorenz -- Postmemory, postmemoir / Leslie Morris.