Vom Lernen zwischen gepackten Koffern zur Bildung mit staatlicher Anbindung. Jüdischer Religionsunterricht in Deutschland seit der Schoah.

If a time frame is drawn from the immediate post-war period of the Second World War to the present day, Jewish religious education in Germany has undergone multiple contextual changes. For example, during the period of the Allied occupation of Germany, which spanned several years and during which the Jewish population was mainly located in temporary displaced persons camps and communities, Jewish religious education was mostly subordinated to education according to Zionist, i.e. national Jewish criteria. In a second phase after the closure of the DP facilities, which was accompanied by a considerable emigration of the Jewish population, the organization of Jewish religious education was exclusively a matter for the newly constituted Jewish communities, which could often only be implemented inadequately due to a lack of material or personnel resources in both West and East Germany. In a third phase from the 1960s onwards, a longer-term to permanent re-establishment of Jewish community life and Jewish education in (West) Germany was expressed, among other things, in the founding of two Jewish all-day schools or increased efforts to procure and select adequate educational media. In the meantime, Jewish vacation camps for children and young people have also taken on a supplementary (and in some cases substitute) function in the teaching of Jewish religious practice. A fourth phase since reunification has been characterized by increased internal Jewish heterogeneity and an increasingly state-affiliated religious education due to immigration, especially from countries of the former Soviet Union.