# Eike Geisel

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'''Eike Geisel''' (1945 – 6 August 1997) was a German journalist  known in [Germany](/source/Germany) and [Israel](/source/Israel) for his polemical essays on German and Jewish history and on [Zionism](/source/Zionism).

== Literary career==

A characterization of the book ''[An Eye for an Eye](/source/An_Eye_for_an_Eye%3A_The_Untold_Story_of_Jewish_Revenge_Against_Germans_in_1945)'' by [John Sack](/source/John_Sack) in ''[Frankfurter Rundschau](/source/Frankfurter_Rundschau)'' (''[taz](/source/Die_Tageszeitung)'' had not accepted the article) as "Antisemitische Rohkost" (antisemitic raw food) stopped the German publishing of the translated book in 1986. Geisel published among others in ''[Haaretz](/source/Haaretz)'', an interview with [Tom Segev](/source/Tom_Segev) about Israel's founding fathers. He translated some of [Hannah Arendt](/source/Hannah_Arendt)'s work and essays about [Zionism](/source/Zionism), Palestine and Germany into German. Together with [Henryk Broder](/source/Henryk_Broder) he published essays and a documentary film about [Jüdischer Kulturbund](/source/J%C3%BCdischer_Kulturbund) (Jewish Cultural Union), an unknown chapter of Jewish German cultural life during the Nazi era.

== Published works==
[[File:Eike Geisel - Friedhof Stubenrauchstraße - Mutter Erde fec.JPG|thumb|Eike Geisel's grave in [III. Städtischer Friedhof Stubenrauchstraße](/source/III._St%C3%A4dtischer_Friedhof_Stubenrauchstra%C3%9Fe) in [Berlin-Friedenau](/source/Berlin-Friedenau)]]
* ''Vielleicht war das alles erst der Anfang. Tagebuch aus dem KZ Bergen-Belsen 1944-1945'' mit Hanna Levy-Hass; Rotbuch Verlag 1979
* ''Im Scheunenviertel. Bilder, Texte und Dokumente'', mit [Günter Kunert](/source/G%C3%BCnter_Kunert), Siedler Verlag 1986
* ''Lastenausgleich, Umschuldung. Die Wiedergutwerdung der Deutschen. Essays, Polemiken, Stichworte''; Taschenbuch 1984
* ''Das Ende Israels? Nahostkonflikt und Geschichte des Zionismus'' mit Nathan Weinstock und Mario Offenberg; Wagenbach 1985
* ''Essays und Kommentare 2. Die Krise des Zionismus'' von Hannah Arendt, mit [Klaus Bittermann](/source/Klaus_Bittermann); Edition Tiamat 1989
* ''Premiere und Pogrom. Der Jüdische Kulturbund 1933–1941'', mit Henryk M. Broder; Siedler, Berlin 1992 {{ISBN|3-88680-343-0}}

== References ==
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