Description:
An insightful reassessment of the political and legal history of German Jews, this book innovatively resituates German Jews as active and engaged political agents, who were invested in engaging with, resisting, and shaping policy, from the early modern period to the present day.
Brief description:
Uffa Jensen is a historian and deputy director at the Center for Research on Antisemitism at the Technische Universität in Berlin. His research focuses on the history of antisemitism, German Jewry, psychoanalysis, emotions and visual culture. His most recent publications include; Gebildete Doppelgänger. Bürgerliche Juden und Protestanten im 19. Jahrhundert (Göttingen 2005), Zornpolitik (Berlin 2017), and Ein antisemitischer Doppelmord. Die vergessene Geschichte des Rechtsterrorismus in der Bundesrepublik (Berlin 2022).