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Article: The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany.
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- Judaism
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- January 1, 1997
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Reviewed by ALAN LEVENSON
Hitler's thousand-year Reich lasted twelve years, a shorter time than the Weimar Republic which preceded it. Yet a glance at the German history section of any American bookstore suggests an unending fascination with the Nazi dictatorship, and a relative lack of interest in the era that Peter Gay hopefully described as "already a legend" in his seminal study, Weimar Culture: The Outsider as Insider. This disparity offers a corrective to the historian Leopold von Ranke's view that "all ages stand in immediate relationship to God." Perhaps, but apparently, those ages which stand in immediate relationship to the Devil sell better.
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