German, Jewish and Adored
Yasha Mounk’s text “German, Jewish and Neither” (NY Times) about his life as a Jew in Germany and personal and communal identity, went viral on facebook. Some Jews living in Germany experienced nearly the same or were astonished about Mounk’s conclusions. Mounk experienced the rise of philo-Semitism in the 1980s and early 1990s, a time, when the Jewish population was on the decline. In the 1990s the first immigrants from all countries of the former Soviet Union entered the communities - life-extending measures for Judaism in Germany, but not a proper countermeasure to establish a vibrant Jewish community for decades to come....