TY  - JOUR
A1  - Cooperman, Jessica
T1  - Jewish-Christian Dialogue and American Visions of the Postwar World
JF  - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany
JF  - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien
N2  - American occupying forces made the promotion of Jewish-Christian dialogue part of their plans for postwar German reconstruction. They sought to export American models of Jewish-Christian cooperation to Germany, while simultaneously validating and valorizing claims about the connection between democracy and tri-faith religious pluralism in the United States. The small size of the Jewish population in Germany meant that Jews did not set the terms of these discussions, and evidence shows that both German and American Jews expressed skepticism about participating in dialogue in the years immediately following the Holocaust. But opting out would have meant that discussions in Germany about the Judeo-Christian tradition that the American government advanced as the centerpiece of postwar democratic reconstruction would take place without a Jewish contribution. American Jewish leaders, present in Germany and in the US, therefore decided to opt in, not because they supported the project, but because it seemed far riskier to be left out.
KW  - Modern Jewish history
KW  - United States
KW  - German history
KW  - interreligious dialogue
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Moderne jüdische Geschichte
KW  - USA
KW  - deutsche Geschichte
KW  - interreligiöser Dialog
KW  - 20. Jahrhundert
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-537488
SN  - 978-3-86956-520-0
SN  - 1614-6492
SN  - 1862-7684
IS  - 27
SP  - 117
EP  - 131
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -