Henryk Modest Broder (born August 20, 1946) is a Jewish-German journalist and author. He mainly writes about Jewish topics, National Socialism, and the German left. Stylistically, his texts are usually a well-researched and informed polemic. Broder writes for the magazine Der Spiegel and the daily Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. He is co-editor of the Der Jüdische Kalender (The Jewish Calender), a compilation of quotes and texts relating to Jewish-German culture, which is published annually. August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The term National socialism has been used in self-description by a number of unrelated political movements. ... The factual accuracy of this article is disputed. ... Look up Polemic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Polemic is the art or practice of inciting disputation or causing controversy, for example in religious, philosophical, or political matters. ... Photo of the cover of the first issue of Der Spiegel (1/1947) Der Spiegel (German for The Mirror) is Europes biggest and Germanys most influential weekly magazine, published in Hamburg, with a circulation of around one million per week. ... This article is about Germanys largest city. ... Der Tagesspiegel (The Daily Mirror; motto: rerum cognoscere causas, or to know the causes of things) is a liberal German daily newspaper. ...

In 1958, Broder moved to Germany with his family and first lived in Cologne. Here, he studied economics and law. In the end of the 1960's he took over the St. Pauli-Nachrichten, a newspaper in Hamburg, along with Günter Wallraff and the photogropher Günter Zint, in order to agitate the working class of the city. In the 1970's, he wrote for the satirical magazine pardon. In 1981, he worked in Israel for a short time, but continued to write for such periodicals as Die Zeit, profil, Die Weltwoche, and Süddeutsche Zeitung. In the 80's he also hosted the television show Leute, which ran on Sender Freies Berlin, along with Elke Heidenreich. He wrote a series of books which dealt with the relationship between Germans and Jews. Broder supported the Iraq War and the overthrow of the anti-Israeli regime under Hussein from the beginning. 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Köln redirects here. ... Buyers bargain for good prices while sellers put forth their best front in Chichicastenango Market, Guatemala. ... The stela of King Hammurabi depicts the god Shamash revealing a code of laws to the king. ... Events and trends The 1960s was a turbulent decade of change around the world. ... The smaller Alster lake at dusk Hamburg (German pronounciation: []; Low German: Hamborg, [haË‘mbɔːχ]) is the second largest city in Germany and with Hamburg Harbour, its principal port, Hamburg is also the second largest port city in the European Union. ... Günter Wallraff (born October 1, 1942 in Burscheid near Cologne) is a German writer and undercover journalist. ... Events and trends Although in the United States and in many other Western societies the 1970s are often seen as a period of transition between the turbulent 1960s and the more conservative 1980s and 1990s, many of the trends that are associated widely with the Sixties, from the Sexual Revolution... The World According To Ronald Reagan - a Finnish satirical poster from 1984 Satire is a literary technique of writing or art which exposes the follies of its subject (for example, individuals, organizations, or states) to ridicule, often as an intended means of provoking or preventing change. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the magazine as a published medium. ... Die Zeit (pronounced ) is a German nationwide weekly newspaper (literally translated: Time). ... Die Weltwoche (The World Week) is a Swiss weekly magazine based in Zürich. ... The Süddeutsche Zeitung is a leading German quality newspaper. ... Logo of Sender Freies Berlin Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) was public radio and television service for West Berlin from 1 June 1954 until 30 April 2003. ... It has been suggested that 2003 invasion of Iraq be merged into this article or section. ... Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, (Arabic: ), (born April 28, 1937 ), was the President of Iraq from 1979 until the United States-led invasion of Iraq reached Baghdad on April 9, 2003. ...

Works

• Wer hat Angst vor Pornographie? Ein Porno-Report, Melzer, Darmstadt 1970
• As co-author: Die Schere im Kopf. Über Zensur und Selbstzensur, Köln 1976
• Danke schön. Bis hierher und nicht weiter. Mit Beiträgen von Detlef Hartmann, Ulrich Klug, Uwe Maeffert, Ulrich Vultejus, Konkret Literatur-Verlag, Hamburg 1980
• Der Ewige Antisemit. Über Sinn und Funktion eines beständigen Gefühls, 1986
• Fremd im eigenen Land. Juden in der Bundesrepublik, 1987
• Ich liebe Karstadt und andere Lobreden, 1987
• with Geisel, Eike: Premiere und Pogrom. Der Jüdische Kulturbund 1933–1941. Texte und Bilder, Siedler, Berlin 1992
• Erbarmen mit den Deutschen, 1993
• Schöne Bescherung! Unterwegs im Neuen Deutschland, 1994
• Volk und Wahn, Goldmann, München 1996
• Die Juden von Mea Shearim, 1997
• Die Irren von Zion, Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 1998
• Jedem das Seine, Ölbaum Verlag 1999
• www.deutsche-leidkultur.de, Ölbaum Verlag 1999
• Kein Krieg, nirgends: Die Deutschen und der Terror, Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2002
• A Jew in the New Germany, University of Illinois Press, Champaign, 2003

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External links

• (German)Personal homepage

References

• This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding German Wikipedia article as of June 20, 2006.