ABSTRACT
In pinpointing a key dilemma in the field of German-Jewish studies, Karen Remmler has recently remarked that “[d]espite all the talk about difference, about metaphor, and about text, scholars in the field…are still facing the dilemma of how to describe the way that a changing GermanJewish symbiosis might operate in the flesh.”1 By this final chapter of the book, it should be evident that German-Jewish “symbiosis” is more than Gershom Scholem’s one-sided and all-too-lachrymose tale, an impossibility somehow mythologized “after Auschwitz.”2 To “flesh out” how post-Shoah German-Jewish relations operate requires a model that accounts for both embodiment and representation, assuming (with Remmler) that we have “agreed to agree about the very presence or possibility of a symbiosis in the first place.”3
