Beyond "the crisis of German ideology": contextualizing German culture, the Holocaust and German Jewry

Discusses the degree to which the horror of the Holocaust ought to be read as a linear projection of the German past. Berkowitz reminds us not only that German culture was hardly an undifferentiated entity but also that Jewish Germans often rightly perceived that it was not and that their cultural grounding helps explain the distinct impact that exiles and survivors from Germany had on the societies and intellectual spheres of Israel and the United States