Exploring how religious and secular forces interact in the modern world.
Ultimately, politicians are not able to initiate peace from the top down. Peace can only come from the bottom up.
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The birth of a morally “improved” German collective necessitates the memory of the Holocaust to remain in vivid proximity, but also requires a sense of perpetual vulnerability of Jews in the present and future.
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The history of post-Holocaust Germany and German-Jewish relations cannot be fully grasped without understanding the wider efforts of the Protestant Church.
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Personal and collective identities always hold tensions, ambivalences, paradoxes, and even contradictions. But when these become so extreme that the gaps cannot be negotiated, mitigated, bridged, or even discussed, they become a reason for deep (political) concern.
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What readers will discern in these pages is that the historical traumas experienced by one group can occlude the realities of violence and oppression in another.
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