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Eike Geisel (1945 – 6 August 1997) was a German journalist known in
* ''Vielleicht war das alles erst der Anfang. Tagebuch aus dem KZ Bergen-Belsen 1944-1945'' mit Hanna Levy-Hass; Rotbuch Verlag 1979
* ''Im Scheunenviertel. Bilder, Texte und Dokumente'', mit
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
and Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
for his polemical essays on German and Jewish history and on Zionism.
Literary career
A characterization of the book ''An Eye for an Eye
"An eye for an eye" ( hbo, עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן, ) is a commandment found in the Book of Exodus 21:23–27 expressing the principle of reciprocal justice measure for measure. The principle exists also in Babylonian law.
In Roman c ...
'' by John Sack
John Sack (March 24, 1930 – March 27, 2004) was an American literary journalism, literary journalist and war correspondent. He was the only journalist to cover List of wars involving the United States, each American war over half a century.
B ...
in ''Frankfurter Rundschau
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'' had not accepted the article) as "Antisemitische Rohkost" (antisemitic raw food) stopped the German publishing of the translated book 1986. Geisel published among others in ''Haaretz
''Haaretz'' ( , originally ''Ḥadshot Haaretz'' – , ) is an Israeli newspaper. It was founded in 1918, making it the longest running newspaper currently in print in Israel, and is now published in both Hebrew and English in the Berliner f ...
'', an interview with Tom Segev
Tom Segev ( he, תום שגב; born March 1, 1945) is an Israeli historian, author and journalist. He is associated with Israel's New Historians, a group challenging many of the country's traditional narratives.
Biography
Segev was born in Jerus ...
about Israel's founding fathers. He
translated some of the work of Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt (, , ; 14 October 1906 – 4 December 1975) was a political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor. She is widely considered to be one of the most influential political theorists of the 20th century.
Arendt was born ...
and essays about Zionism
Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת ''Tsiyyonut'' after ''Zion'') is a Nationalism, nationalist movement that espouses the establishment of, and support for a homeland for the Jewish people centered in the area roughly corresponding to what is ...
, Palestine and Germany into German. Together with Henryk Broder
Henryk Marcin Broder (born 20 August 1946, self-designation Henryk Modest Broder) is a Polish-born German journalist, author, and TV personality.
Broder is known for polemics, columns, and comments in written and audiovisual media. Starting as ...
he published essays and a documentary film about Jüdischer Kulturbund
, or (with the definite article) , was a Cultural Federation of German Jews, established in 1933. It hired over 1300 men and 700 women artists, musicians, and actors fired from German institutions, and grew to about 70,000 members, according to som ...
(Jewish Cultural Union), an unknown chapter of Jewish German cultural life during the Nazi era.
Published works
* ''Vielleicht war das alles erst der Anfang. Tagebuch aus dem KZ Bergen-Belsen 1944-1945'' mit Hanna Levy-Hass; Rotbuch Verlag 1979
* ''Im Scheunenviertel. Bilder, Texte und Dokumente'', mit Günter Kunert
Günter Kunert (; 6 March 1929 – 21 September 2019) was a German writer. Based in East Berlin, he published poetry from 1947, supported by Bertold Brecht. After he had signed a petition against the deprivation of the citizenship of Wolf Biermann ...
, Siedler Verlag 1986
* ''Lastenausgleich, Umschuldung. Die Wiedergutwerdung der Deutschen. Essays, Polemiken, Stichworte''; Taschenbuch 1984
* ''Das Ende Israels? Nahostkonflikt und Geschichte des Zionismus'' mit Nathan Weinstock und Mario Offenberg; Wagenbach 1985
* ''Essays und Kommentare 2. Die Krise des Zionismus'' von Hannah Arendt, mit Klaus Bittermann; Edition Tiamat 1989
* ''Premiere und Pogrom. Der Jüdische Kulturbund 1933–1941'', mit Henryk M. Broder; Siedler, Berlin 1992
References