The Jews of Germany after the Holocaust
9:30 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 16, 2008
Webster Hall Auditorium
Admission: free

At the end of the Holocaust, Germany’s once thriving Jewish community consisted of a few thousand devastated survivors of the whirlwind of death. What challenges did they face in rebuilding their lives in the land of their tormentors? How did a once-thriving Jewish community rebuild itself in a Germany that itself faced the devastation of military defeat and Cold War division? Could Jews ever again become part of a society whose government had sought their destruction?

Dr. William Z. Tannenbaum is a professor of history at Missouri Southern State University. He has a Ph.D. from Stanford University, and has conducted post-doctoral studies at the University of Munich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv University. He is the author of From Community to Citizenship: The Jews of Rural Franconia, 1801-1862 and numerous articles on the history of Germany and German Jews.