From everyday life to a State of Emergency: Jews in Weimar and Nazi Germany

After World War I life in Germany for the Jews gradually changed from the economic effects of the depression and antisemitism from social and political forces. In the face of social ostracism the family took on renewed significance as the nucleus of middle class life and the Jewish community became the centre of Jewish life with its diverse offers of aid, both material and spiritual. However from the early 1930s terror and deportations destroyed the constant attempts to adapt and survive and everyday life was replaced by a permanent state of emergency