Eike Geisel
Eike Geisel was a German journalist known in Germany and Israel for his polemical essays on German and Jewish history and on Zionism.
Literary career
A characterization of the book An Eye for an Eye: The Untold Story of [Jewish Revenge Against Germans in 1945|An Eye for an Eye] by John Sack in Frankfurter Rundschau as "Antisemitische Rohkost" stopped the German publishing of the translated book in 1986. Geisel published among others in Haaretz, an interview with Tom Segev about Israel's founding fathers. Hetranslated some of Hannah Arendt's work and essays about Zionism, Palestine and Germany into German. Together with Henryk Broder he published essays and a documentary film about Jüdischer Kulturbund, an unknown chapter of Jewish German cultural life during the Nazi era.