French Literature Reviews - 2026
Sonia Goldblum, Discours de la symbiose judéo-allemande au XXe s.. Identités, mémoires et histoire
History, Politics and Society
Sonia Goldblum
Discours de la « symbiose judéo-allemande » au XXe siècle. Identités, mémoires et histoire
Paris, Classiques Garnier, coll. « Constitution de la modernité », n° 60, 2025.
Tracing the history of the phrase "German-Jewish symbiosis" requires an analysis of the debates it sparked from the 1960s onward and the way it gradually established itself in discourses concerning the history, culture, and identity of German Jews.
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The notion of a German-Jewish symbiosis has long occupied a complex place in European intellectual history, functioning both as a historical characterization and as a contested ideological construct. Sonia Goldblum examines how this terminology evolved through various critical debates from the mid-twentieth century onward, reflecting shifting perspectives on identity and historical narrative among German Jews.
Readers interested in the history of Jewish-German cultural relations and twentieth-century European intellectual history may find this volume relevant. The text addresses the ways in which the phrase gradually established itself within broader discourses concerning history, culture, and collective identity, tracing the trajectories of the debates it sparked over several decades.