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URL:https://www.columbiajewish.org/events/from-democracy-to-dictatorship-h
 ow-german-jews-responded-to-the-rise-of-hitler-in-1933/
SUMMARY:From Democracy to Dictatorship: How German Jews Responded to the Ri
 se of Hitler in 1933
DESCRIPTION:\n&nbsp\;\nDr. Michael Brenner American University\n“Like a h
 orrible nightmare the abrogation of equal rights weighs upon us all\, but 
 especially upon those Jews who\, like me\, had surrendered themselves to t
 he dream of assimilation....As difficult as it has been for me\, I have aw
 akened from the dream that I dreamed my whole life long.”\n-- The painte
 r Max Liebermann to the Hebrew poet Hayim Nachman Bialik in June 1933\nThi
 s lecture addresses the different ways in which German Jews – Zionists a
 nd German nationalists\, Orthodox\, and Liberals (religious Reform and Con
 servative Jews) – awoke from their dream of being German citizens of the
  Jewish faith. What were their expectations of the new year 1933 and how d
 id they react to the rapidly changing circumstances after Hitler was appoi
 nted Chancellor of Germany on January\, 30th \, 1933? How did they experie
 nce the immediate change from a democracy to a dictatorship and how did th
 ey reflect about it? And what does this all mean to American Jews in 2026?
 \nMichael Brenner holds the chair of Jewish History and Culture at Ludwig 
 Maximilian University in Munich and is Distinguished Professor of History 
 and Seymour and Lillian Abensohn Chair in Israel Studies at American Unive
 rsity in Washington DC. He is an elected member of the Bavarian Academy of
  Science\, the Accademia Nazionale Virgiliana in Italy and the American Ac
 ademy for Jewish Research. He published 9 books\, which have been translat
 ed in 12 languages. Among them are In Hitler’s Munich: Jews\, the Revolu
 tion\, and the Rise of Nazism\, In Search of Israel:The History of an Idea
 \, A Short History of the Jews\, and The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in 
 Weimar Germany.\nCLICK HERE to register to receive Zoom link. Link will be
  shared a few days before the program.\n\nCLICK HERE to see all of the ses
 sions in our Jewish Scholar Series.
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