German History from the Margins offers new ways of thinking about ethnic                  and religious minorities and other outsiders in modern German history. Many                  established paradigms of German history are challenged by the contributors' new and                  often provocative findings, including evidence of the striking cosmopolitanism of                  Germany's 19th-century eastern border communities; German Jewry's sophisticated                  appropriation of the discourse of tribe and race; the unexpected absence of                  antisemitism in Weimar's campaign against smut; the Nazi embrace of purportedly                  "Jewish" sexual behavior; and post-war West Germany's struggles with                  ethnic and racial minorities despite its avowed liberalism. Germany's minorities                  have always been active partners in defining what it is to be German, and even after                  1945, despite the legacy of the Nazis' murderous destructiveness, German society                  continues to be characterized by ethnic and cultural diversity.

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