Publications

Sabine Schmidtke reconstructs the scientific biography of Martin Schreiner (1863-1926), a prominent student of Ignaz Goldziher and important representative of the ‘study of Judaism’, from his education in Budapest up until his productive phase in Berlin.

XVI, 830 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-162374-5 DOI: -

Interconnectivity and Entanglements
Edited by Susanne Marten-Finnis and Michael Nagel

Susanne Marten-Finnis Born 1957; Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Portsmouth; visiting scholar at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies); honorary research fellow at the Centre of Migration, Diaspora and Exile at the University of Central Lancashire (MIDEX).

A cultural history of friendship in Germanic Judaism

Gerade für die junge Generation der um 1900 Geborenen repräsentierte die Ideologie, das Versprechen der Freundschaft so vieles, das ihrem alltäglichen Leben Sinn und Bedeutung gab. Die Frage, wie »richtig« zu leben sei, konnte die Tradition oft nicht mehr beantworten. Stattdessen verbürgte die Freundschaft ein Leben, das auf Loyalität und Treue, auf Wahrheit und Gleichberechtigung basierte. Man wurde in eine Freundschaft nicht hineingeboren, sondern wählte sie sich aus freien Stücken und demonstrierte damit zugleich…

Lisa Sophie Gebhard

Published in German.

Lisa Sophie Gebhard explores the multifaceted activities of the Zionist Davis Trietsch (1870–1935), who was once a remarkable figure on the Jewish nationalist scene but after his death disappeared almost entirely from historical memory. In this work, the author brings together coherent biographical information about him for the very first time. Trietsch, who initiated several forward-looking projects, emerges as a dynamic social actor whose thought was particularly influenced by innovations developed in the United States.

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The influence of theatre director Kurt Hirschfeld on German theatre both in Swiss exile and after 1945 is second to none. This book explores both the fragmentary experiences of exile of this central figure in German-Jewish history, as well as his intellectual relationships to authors like Berthold Brecht and Max Frisch.

VII, 208 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-161162-9 DOI: -

Published in English.

The Wissenschaft des Judentums was born in the battle for equality, integration, and regeneration in nineteenth-century Germany and in its turn to history posed an intellectual revolution for modern Judaism. In this volume of collected essays, Ismar Schorsch provides a contextual study of the perilous origins and rapid developments of jüdische Wissenschaft outside the framework of the German university, which dominated the field of historical scholarship at the time.

Ismar Schorsch Born 1935; 1957 B.A., Ursinus College…

[Plants for Palestine. Otto Warburg and the Natural Sciences in the Yishuv.] Published in German.

2019. VII, 267 pages.

What story does the cultivation of Palestinian plants and other Botanical Zionism crops tell us about the historical and political relations between people, politics, and ideology? Dana von Suffrin investigates the impact made by a group of Otto Warburg-inspired Zionists who wanted to establish a Jewish state with the help of science.

As history was being recorded, the so-called botanical Zionism that grew up around the German-Jewish colonial botanist…

What significance did Orientalism have for German-Jewish literature? In the period of upheaval that was the early 1800s, Jewish authors, through literary means, took it upon themselves to infuse their contemporary European writing scene with a touch of oriental splendour.

79 Wittler, Kathrin: Morgenländischer Glanz. Eine deutsche jüdische Literaturgeschichte (1750–1850), (2019, 620 pp.)

This volume collects together sources about the history of the Zionist movement in Germany between 1882 and 1933, which had previously been spread across the globe. This work aims to illustrate the development of German Zionism over time, as well as its inner conflicts, important ideological tendencies and different factions. It is accessible to both those with a special interest in the subject matter, as well as casual readers.

78 Nicosia, Francis R. (hrsg. u. eingel.): Dokumente zur Geschichte des deutschen Zionismus 1933–1941, (2018, 657 pp.)

To what extent was modern Jewish art music influenced by its dissemination in British Mandate Palestine and how did its lively discourse with Hebrew culture take shape? In this book, Assaf Shelleg analyses the history of Israeli art music and brings the different aesthetics dilemmas between Modernism and Zionism to the forefront. 

77 Shelleg, Assaf: Musikalische Grenzgänge Europäisch-jüdische Kunstmusik und der Soundtrack der israelischen Geschichte, (2017, 344 pp.)

In this historical-biographical study, Stephan Steiner illuminates the genesis, constellation and context of Leo Strauss’ political philosophy. The core of this study is the reconstruction of the transfer history, which brought a uniquely German critique of the modernity from Weimar to America in the 20th century.

Weimar in Amerika. Leo Strauss’ Politische Philosophie, (2013, 306 pp.)

The ‘Society for the Promotion of the Sciences of Judaism’(Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums) (1902-38) supported numerous groundbreaking projects and publications and to this day has a lasting influence on the study of Jewish culture around the globe. Henry C. Soussan puts the organisation in its historical context and works out which social and ideological impulses led to its creation.

75 Soussan, Henry C.: The Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums in Its Historical Context, (2013, 193pp.)

In the 19th century, German Jewry went through a sweeping process of modernisation, during the course of which two central pillars of Jewish tradition were taken and redefined: the law and exegesis, Halacha and Aggadah. Both were rendered fertile soil for the scientific, literary and emancipatory goals of the modern age. Johannes Sabel sets out to trace these developments.

74 Sabel, Johannes: Die Geburt der Literatur aus der Aggada (2010, 296 pp.)

What links gymnasts with harmony, masculinity and being Jewish? And why do such questions indicate fracturing in Jewish integration into the German Empire? Daniel Wildmann seeks to answer these questions and offers a new perspective on the practices of Jewish self-understanding around 1900.

73 Wildmann, Daniel: Der veränderbare Körper (2009, 329 pp.)

This collection studies the relationship between the cultural, religious and social circumstances of German-speaking Jews and their academic work.

72 Charpa, Ulrich / Deichmann, Ute (eds.): Jews and Sciences in German Contexts, (2007, 312 pp.)

Theodor Fontanes earliest, continuous collection of letters is his correspondence with the Ukrainian Jewish writer Wilhelm Wolfsohn. These manuscripts will be academically published for the first time, accompanied by a collection of essays which shed light on the biographical and cultural context behind the letters.

71 Wolzogen, Hanna Delf von / Shedletzky, Itta (eds.): Theodor Fontane und Wilhelm Wolfsohn – eine interkulturelle Beziehung, (2006, 548 pp.)

Preserving the Legacy of German Jewry. A History of the Leo Baeck Institute, 1955-2005, (2005, 474 pp.)

Founded in May 1955 in Jerusalem by German-Jewish intellectuals who had survived the Holocaust - among them Martin Buber, Ernst Simon, Gershom Scholem, and Robert Weltsch - the Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany (LBI) has been engaged in preserving the legacy of German Jewry by collecting material, doing research, and presenting historical narratives. Published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, the present volume is the first to…

Selma Stern (1890-1981) the “grand old lady of German-Jewish historical scholarship” created an extensive corpus of literature about German-Jewish history in the modern era. Marina Sassenberg takes a look at the interaction between biography and historical understanding for of the first female German historians and the first woman in the scholarship of Judaism.

293 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-162841-2 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-162841-2

In this volume, leading historians, political scientists and literary scholars from all over the world make a systematic attempt at a comparative study of Jewish history in Germany and France in the modern era. The focus is the paradigmatic paths of Jewish emancipation in both countries, although current problems, like civil rights and the situation in modern day Europe, play a role as well.

VI, 245 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163597-7 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163597-7

What caused the failure of Jewish emancipation in Germany? Intrigued by this question, Ulrich Wyrwa examines the specific accomplishments and the unique obstacles of Jews in the era of emancipation, using Prussian and Tuscan cities as examples.

IX, 491 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163143-6 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163143-6

The German-Jewish historian Selma Stern (1890-1981) researched mythos and reality, the rise and fall of ‘Court Jew’ dynasties like Behrens, Ephraim, Gumperts, Itzig, Kann and Wertheimer. Marina Sassenberg presents the first German publication of this work.

X, 284 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163596-0 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163596-0

This publication documents the diversity of the Jewish bourgoisie across the different social classes, but also the limitations placed on this minority in Germany. The authors combine new discoveries in the field of German-Jewish history with the field of research concerning societies and social classes.

IX, 444 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163594-6 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163594-6

Using the publisher Henri Hinrichsen as an example, Erika Bucholtz presents an important section of German-Jewish city, social and cultural history.. Her research is a cornerstone in the examination of the history of music labels and producers, a field within musicology, as well as social and cultural historiography, that has long been underappreciated.

VIII, 367 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163595-3 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163595-3

Eleonore Lappin investigates Martin Buber’s journal Der Jude (‘The Jew’) In doing so she provides a valuable service to the understanding of Zionism and the specific political, social and economic development of Jews in Europe and Palestine.

XVII, 456 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163589-2 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163589-2

An international group of scholars and experts on Jewish, German, British and European history present the first comparative approach to an examination of Jewish history in Germany and Great Britain from the late 18th century to the 1930s. Their essays encompass a large spectrum and deal with social, political, cultural and economic aspects concerning the historical experience of Jews in both countries.

The contributions go beyond a mere parallel investigation of both countries’ history, as they give equal consideration to German and British Jewry and ask comparative questions.…

What was the relationship between Jewish studies and Protestant theology in the German Empire? Christian Wiese investigates this question and shows possible forms of contemporary dialogue between Christian theology and Judaism.

XXV, 507 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163592-2 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163592-2

“This work … is undoubtedly a result of modern intellectual and social history. After numerous isolated studies we now have access to a complex, diverse work which grants surprising insights, offers interpretations and asks questions.”
- Peter Steinbach in Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands, vol. 27

“Especially praiseworthy is the quality of this work, containing multiple outstanding contributions. Seeing as the essays boast not only academic excellence but are also easy to read, this book is a great introduction to the multifaceted problems of German…

The group biography focuses on the German-speaking founders of the Palestine Orchestra – nowadays called the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra – which was created by the violinist Bronislaw. Using contemporary witness accounts and newly released written documentation, Barbara von der Lühe unravels the paths that led 50 Jewish musicians, conductors and musicologists from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to emigrate to Palestine between 1933 and 1939. They escaped from National Socialism thanks to the orchestra in Tel Aviv, which gave them the possibility to relocate to British Mandate…

VII, 295 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163588-5 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163588-5

288 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163586-1 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163586-1

XI, 444 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163585-4 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163585-4

XIV, 333 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163583-0 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163583-0

XVI, 388 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163582-3 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163582-3

XVI, 258 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-162956-3 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-162956-3

IX, 245 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163581-6 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163581-6

XII, 654 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163580-9 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163580-9

XIII, 409 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163141-2 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163141-2

XIV, 177 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163613-4 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163613-4

VI, 370 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163611-0 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163611-0

VI, 370 (-815) pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163611-0 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163611-0

XXIV, 426 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163612-7 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163612-7

XII, 202 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163610-3 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163610-3

XIV, 294 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163609-7 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163609-7

VIII, 171 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163608-0 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163608-0

XII, 431 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163606-6 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163606-6

XXIV, 63 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163625-7 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163625-7

XIII, 445 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-162955-6 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-162955-6

LII, 329 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163708-7 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163708-7

VIII, 156 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163138-2 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163138-2

XV, 251 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163137-5 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163137-5

XI, 257 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163136-8 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163136-8

V, 113 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163622-6 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163622-6

XXV, 1615 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163621-9 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163621-9

IX, 704 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163135-1 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163135-1

CXLII, 421 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163627-1 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163627-1

Von Georg Simmel zu Franz Rosenzweig

XV, 418 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163620-2 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163620-2

VIII, 232 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163619-6 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163619-6

XXVII, 796 (2 Bde.) pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163618-9 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163618-9

X, 155 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163626-4 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163626-4

XI, 387 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-158916-4 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-158916-4

XX, 615 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163616-5 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163616-5

XII, 498 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163570-0 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163570-0

72 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163568-7 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163568-7

136 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163567-0 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163567-0

84 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163569-4 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163569-4

XXXVI, 1689 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163615-8 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163615-8

XII, 169 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163604-2 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163604-2

INHALTSVERZEICHNIS

Vorwort IX

1. Kapitel Die Ursprünge

a) Die jüdische traditionelle Erwachsenenbildung . 1

b) Die deutsche Volkshochschulbewegung . . . 4

c) Das "Freie Jüdische Lehrhaus" in Frankfurt a. M.
und die „Schule der Jüdischen Jugend" in Berlin . 9

d)HechalutzundJugendalijah. . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.Kapitel Der Einfluß des Nationalsozialismus auf die geistige LagederdeutschenJuden. . . . . . . . . . . 21

3. Kapitel Die Mittelstelle für jüdische Erwachsenenbildung

a) Die…

49 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163566-3 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163566-3