Today there are thought to be more than 150,000 Jews living in Germany -– making the country home to one of the world’s largest Jewish communities. Many among the new German Jews immigrated to the country from the former Soviet Union and Eastern European states. Just as recent years have seen a major upsurge in antisemitism in France, the U.K., the United States, and elsewhere, there are disturbing signs of a steep rise in Jew-hatred in the birthplace of the Nazi genocide against the Jews.
Quote: “For the Michalskis, all this was evidence that German society never truly reckoned with anti-Semitism after the war. Germany had restored synagogues and built memorials to the victims of the Holocaust, Wenzel said: ‘So for a lot of mainstream, middle-class people, that means: ‘We’ve done it. We dealt with anti-Semitism.’ But nobody really dealt with it within the families. The big, the hard, the painful questions were never asked.”
— “The New German Anti-Semitism” in The New York Times
Sources: My Jewish Learning, The New York Times
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