The youths of nations have always rebelled against their elders. German-Jewish youth in the Weinmar Republic were no different. While many Jewish adults in Germany were going about their daily lives, proudly proclaiming their German nationalism, Jewish youth had begun to assert a different characteristic: their Jewish-ness.

The earlier years of the Weinmar Republic, say 1920 to 1930, saw a rise in the number of strictly-Jewish youth groups. While their parents before them belonged to German social clubs, the children of this time began to proclaim their Jewish pride. This was primarily

due to the fact that the youth at this time were the first to be targeted by the Nazi anti-Jewish legislations.

Jewish youth were not being forced out of German schools because of the Law Against Overcrowding in German Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning and many were detested by teachers and peers. Because of this new hostile...