German History from the Margins

German History from the Margins offers new ways of thinking about ethnic
and religious minorities and other outsiders in modern German history. Many
established paradigms of German history are challenged by the contributors' new and
often provocative findings, including evidence of the striking cosmopolitanism of
Germany's 19th-century eastern border communities; German Jewry's sophisticated
appropriation of the discourse of tribe and race; the unexpected absence of
antisemitism in Weimar's campaign against smut; the Nazi embrace of purportedly
"Jewish" sexual behavior; and post-war West Germany's struggles with
ethnic and racial minorities despite its avowed liberalism. Germany's minorities
have always been active partners in defining what it is to be German, and even after
1945, despite the legacy of the Nazis' murderous destructiveness, German society
continues to be characterized by ethnic and cultural diversity.

Neil Gregor is Reader in Modern German History at the University of
Southampton.

Nils Roemer is Lecturer in Jewish History at the
James Parkes Centre, University of Southampton.

Mark Roseman holds
the Pat M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies at Indiana University.