1. The Jewish involvement with the Civil Rights Movement took a different form, however, and was largely ‘altruistically’ oriented, seen as assistance to the Black community. Nevertheless, working for civil rights at the time was important to the Jewish social position as well, in light of persistent discriminatory practices against Jews even in the 1960s. See Ezra Mendelsohn (1993), On Modern Jewish Politics, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 133ff.
2. For the history of commemoration of Crystal Night in Germany, see Michal Bodemann (1996), Gedächtnistheater: Die Jüdische Gemeinschaft und ihre deutsche Erfindung, Hamburg: Rotbuch Verlag.
3. Similarly, Zafer Senoçak, in his Atlas des tropischen Deutschland (1992), Berlin: Babel Verlag, has raised this theme as well.
4. This is discussed in Michal Bodemann (2002), In den Wogen der Erinnening. Jüdische Existenz in Deutschland, München: DTV, pp. 185ff. and passim. The boldest statement, most recently, is by Micha Brumlik (2004) who has spoken firmly of German Jewish patriotism, in an article entitled ‘Dies ist mein Land’ (‘This is my country’), Jüdische Allgemeine, 23 December.
5. The title alludes to Lea Fleischmann’s book title, Dies ist nicht mein Land (1986), Munich: Wilhelm Heyne Verlag.