New Beginnings by Hagit Lavsky - 9780814330098

New BeginningsHolocaust Survivors in Bergen-Belsen and the British Zone in Germany, 1945-1950\nAuthor(s): Hagit Lavsky\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Wayne State University Press, United States\nImprint: Wayne State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814330098, 978-0814330098\nSynopsis\nThis volume offers a historical inquiry into how Jews in Germany began to rebuild their social and cultural networks immediately following World War II. Prompted by the recent dynamic development of Jewish community in Germany, social analyses of the German Jewish experience have focused primarily on contemporary trends. Here Lavsky looks at the early history of the postwar German Jewish community, while considering how German Jews intermingled with Jews from other countries who, after the war, ended up in Germany's displaced persons camps. Lavsky concentrates on the British Zone of occupation in north-west Germany, where some of the most important Jewish communities developed and laid the foundation for a.