Frakes, Jerold C.: The Emergence of Early Yiddish Literature. Cultural Translation in Ashkenaz, (2017)
Publications
Spector, Scott: Modernism without Jews?. German-Jewish Subjects and Histories, (2017)
In this rich transnational history, Cornelia Aust traces Jewish Ashkenazi families as they moved across Europe and established new commercial and entrepreneurial networks as they went. Aust balances economic history with elaborate discussions of Jewish marriage patterns, women's economic activity, and intimate family life. Following their travels from Amsterdam to Warsaw, Aust opens a multifaceted window into the lives, relationships, and changing conditions of economic activity of a new Jewish mercantile elite.
Ilany, Ofri: In Search of the Hebrew People. Bible and Nation in the German Enlightenment, (2018)
As German scholars, poets, and theologians searched for the origins of the ancient Israelites, Ofri Ilany believes they created a model for nationalism that drew legitimacy from the biblical idea of the Chosen People. In this broad exploration of eighteenth-century Hebraism, Ilany tells the story of the surprising role that this model played in discussions of ethnicity, literature, culture, and nationhood among the German-speaking intellectual elite. He reveals the novel portrait they…
Kita, Caroline A.: Jewish Difference and the Arts in Vienna. Composing Compassion in Music and Biblical Theater, (2019)
During the mid-19th century, the works of Arthur Schopenhauer and Richard Wagner sparked an impulse toward German cultural renewal and social change that drew on religious myth, metaphysics, and spiritualism. The only problem was that their works were deeply antisemitic and entangled with claims that Jews were incapable of creating compassionate art. By looking at the works of Jewish composers and writers who contributed to a lively and robust biblical theatre in…
Panagiotidis, Jannis: The Unchosen Ones. Diaspora, Nation, and Migration in Israel and Germany, (2019)
Steinke, Ronen: Fritz Bauer. The Jewish Prosecutor Who Brought Eichmann and Auschwitz to Trial, (2020)
McCormick, Richard W.: Sex, Politics, and Comedy. The Transnational Cinema of Ernst Lubitsch, (2020)
Caplan, Marc: Yiddish Writers in Weimar Berlin. A Fugitive Modernism, (2021)
In Making German Jewish Literature Anew, Katja Garloff traces the emergence of a new Jewish literature in Germany and Austria from 1990 to the present. The rise of new generations of authors who identify as both German and Jewish, and who often sustain additional affiliations with places such as France,…
How did German Jews present their claims for equality to everyday Germans in the first half of the nineteenth century? We Will Never Yield offers the first English-language study of the role of the German press in the fight for Jewish agency and participation during the 1840s.
David Meola explores how the German press…
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).
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5880-5686
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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82 Gross, Raphael / Wildmann, Daniel (hrsg): Weltbühne Zürich: Kurt Hirschfeld und das deutschsprachige Theater um Schweizer Exil, (2022, 208 pp.)
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…
79 Wittler, Kathrin: Morgenländischer Glanz. Eine deutsche jüdische Literaturgeschichte (1750–1850), (2019, 620 pp.)
78 Nicosia, Francis R. (hrsg. u. eingel.): Dokumente zur Geschichte des deutschen Zionismus 1933–1941, (2018, 657 pp.)
77 Shelleg, Assaf: Musikalische Grenzgänge Europäisch-jüdische Kunstmusik und der Soundtrack der israelischen Geschichte, (2017, 344 pp.)
76 Steiner, Stephan: Weimar in Amerika. Leo Strauss’ Politische Philosophie, (2013, 306 pp.)
75 Soussan, Henry C.: The Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums in Its Historical Context, (2013, 193pp.)
74 Sabel, Johannes: Die Geburt der Literatur aus der Aggada (2010, 296 pp.)
72 Charpa, Ulrich / Deichmann, Ute (eds.): Jews and Sciences in German Contexts, (2007, 312 pp.)
71 Wolzogen, Hanna Delf von / Shedletzky, Itta (eds.): Theodor Fontane und Wilhelm Wolfsohn – eine interkulturelle Beziehung, (2006, 548 pp.)
Hoffmann, Christhard (ed.)
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-…
Preface by Cathy S Gelbin and others
I. The enlightenment age and the Jews
Nothing Out of the Ordinary: The Life of Salomon Marcus by Kamila Lenartowicz Johann Gottfried Herder, Enlightenment Anthropology, and the Jew as a ‘Parasitic Plant’ by Carl Niekerk
II. Jews in Fin-De-Siècle Austria
Of Bug Crushers and Barbaric Clerks:…
Preface by Cathy S Gelbin and others
I. German-Jewish agency in times of crisis
Introduction: German-Jewish Agency in Times of Crisis, 1914–1938 by David Jünger and Anna Ullrich Open the Gate: German Jews, the Foundation of Tel Aviv Port, and the Imagined Power of the Sea in 1936 by Björn Siegel Beyond Marginalization: The (German-)Jewish Soldiers’ Agency in…
Preface By Cathy S. Gelbin, David Rechter, And Daniel Wildmann
I. Medieval Legacies
Renate Evers: The 1484 Nuremberg Jewry Oath (More Judaico) Amir Engel: German-jewish Esotericism: The Case Of Meir Wiener’s Expressionist Kabbalah
II. German Jewish Encounters
Amy Hill Shevitz And Susanne Hillman: Franz Rosenzweig, Adele Alsberg…
Preface by Cathy S Gelbin and others
I. Exile photography
Exile Photography: An Introduction by Ofer Ashkenazi and Daniel Wildmann Family Frames as Exile Photography by Talila Kosh-Zohar Image Transfer and Visual Friction: Staging Palestine in the National Socialist Spectacle by Rebekka Grossmann Cute Jews: Modernist Photographic Forms and Minor Aesthetic…
Preface By Cathy S. Gelbin, David Rechter, And Daniel Wildmann
I. Reinhard Rürup - Obituary
Claudia Buchwald: Reinhard Rürup - Ambassador Between Worlds (27 May 1934 - 6 April 2018)
II. Beyond The Negative Symbiosis: German-israeli Relationships In Film
Ofer Ashkenazi: Introduction…
Preface by Cathy S Gelbin and others
I. Arnold Paucker - Obituary and article
Arnold Paucker: 6 January 1921–13 October 2016 by Peter Pulzer Speaking English with an AccentGet access by Arnold Paucker
II. Jewish conditions, shifting conceptions of nation and belonging
Introduction by Scott Spector Can Parallels Meet? Hannah…
Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin and others
I. German Jews in the Middle East
German Jews in the Middle East: New Perspectives by Menashe Anzi and Anja Siegemund “Greater Palestine” as a German-Zionist Idea before the British Mandate Period by Olivier Baisez The Middle East as a Temporary Haven: Jewish Medical Refugees in Turkey during the Second World War by Rakefet…
I. Austrian, Jewish, German, Czech: Reframing Max Brod and Prague Zionism
Introduction Max Brod in 2014 by Mark H. Gelber Max Brod and Hans-Joachim Schoeps: Literary Collaborators, Ideological Rivals by Abraham Rubin On Not Writing Hebrew: Max Brod and the ‘Jewish Poet of the German Tongue’ between Prague and Tel Aviv by Sebastian Schirrmeister
II.…
Preface By Cathy S. Gelbin And Raphael Gross
I. Jews And Citizenship
Introduction By Andreas Braemer And Gideon Reuveni Gideon Reuveni: Emancipation Through Consumption: Moses Mendelssohn And The Idea Of Marketplace Citizenship Michal Szulc: A Gracious Act Or Merely A Regulation Of Economic Activity? A Daily Life Perspective On The Reception Of The…
Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin and Raphael Gross
I. Jews And The Law In Moderneurope: Emancipation, Destruction, Reconstruction
Introduction By Warren Rosenblum
Douglas G. Morris: The Dual State Reframed: Ernst Fraenkel’s Political Clients And His Theory Of The Nazi Legal System
Lisa Moses Leff: The Jewish Oath And The Making Of Secularism In Modern…
I. The German - Jewish Literary Canon
Mark H. Gelber: Autobiography And History: Stefan Zweig, Theodor Herzl And Die Welt Von Gestern Caroline Jessen: ‘‘Vergangenheiten Haben Ihr Eigenes Beharrungsvermögen . . .’’ Josef Kastein And The troublesome Persistence Of A Canon Of German Literature In Palestine/Israel Sander L. Gilman: ‘Jewish Humour’ and The Terms…
I. John Grenville – Obituary And Interview
Peter Pulzer: John Grenville 1928-2011 Bea Lewkowicz: An Interview By Dr Bea Lewkowicz With Professor John Grenville
II. Jewish Life In The Early Modern Period
Dean Phillip Bell: Navigating The Flood Waters: Perspectives On Jewish Life In Early Modern Germany Nimrod…
Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross
I. Jewish And Islamic Studies
Ismar Schorsch: Converging Cognates: The Intersection Of Jewish And Islamic Studies In Nineteenth Century Germany
II. Overlapping Spheres
Robert Liberles: Jews And Christians In Early Modern Germany Yaacov Deutsch: Jewish Anti-christian Invectives…
Preface by John A. S. Grenville and Raphael Gross
I. Discussion
The Future of German-Jewish Studies
II. Jewish Identity, Philosophy and Religious thinking
Nimrod Zinger: «Our hearts and spirits were broken»: The medical world from the perspective of German Jewish patients in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
For…
Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross
I. The Perception Of Jews In German Society
Aya Elyada: Yiddish – Language Of Conversion? Linguistic Adaptation And Its Limits In Early Modern Judenmission Christian Stuart Davis: Colonialism And Antisemitism During The Kaiserreich: Bernhard Dernburg And The Antisemites Michah Gottlieb: Publishing The Moses…
Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross
I. Jewish Identity
Amy Blau: Claims Of Language: Translation As A Mediation Of Jewish
Identity And The Yiddish Reception Of Nelly Sachs
Manfred Jehle: “Relocations” In South Prussia And New East Prussia:
Prussia’s Demographic Policy Towards The Jews In Occupied Poland
…
Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross
I. Sustenance For The Soul
Michael A. Meyer: German Jewish Thinkers Reflect On The Future Of The
Jewish Religion
Uta Lohmann: “Sustenance For The Learned Soul”: The History Of The
Oriental Printing Press At The Publishing House Of The Jewish Free School
In Berlin
Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross
I. Intellectual Resistance In Theresienstadt
Miriam Intrator: The Theresienstadt Ghetto Central Library, Books And Reading: Intellectual Resistance And Escape During The Holocaust
II. Literary Interpretation And Intellectual History
Elizabeth Petuchowski…
Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross
I. The End Of The War And The Holocaust
Andreas Kossert: “Endlösung On The ‘Amber Shore’”: The Massacre In January 1945 On The Baltic Seashore – A Repressed Chapter Of East Prussian History
II. Jewish Intellectuals
Christian Wiese: “For A Time I Was Privileged…
Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross
I. Religious Renewal
Edward Breuer And David Sorkin: Moses Mendelssohn’s First Hebrew Publication: An Annotated Translation Of The Kohelet Mussar This Is The First Translation Into English Of Moses Mendelssohn’s First Hebrew Work, The Kohelet Mussar Or Preacher Of Morals, Published Sometime In The 1750S. The…
Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross
I. Jewish Intellectual Responses To Tradition And Modernity
Astrid Deuber-mankowsky: Walter Benjamin’s Theological-political Fragment As A Response To Ernst Bloch’s Spirit Of Utopia Taking Jacob Taubes’ Polemical Essay “Walter Benjamin – A Modern Marcionite?” As A Starting Point, This Article Aims To Clarify The…
Preface By John Grenville And Arnold Paucker
I. Jews In The Age Of Metternich
Edward Timms: The Pernicious Rift: Metternich And The Debate About Jewish Emanicipation At The Congress Of Viennna Niall Ferguson: Metternich And The Rothschilds: “A Dance With Torches On Powderkegs”? Robert J. W. Evans: Progress And Emancipation In Hungary During The Age Of…
Preface By John Grenville And Julius Carle
I. Jewish Philosophy And Politics In The Enlightenment
Rivka Horwitz: Kabbalah In The Writings Of Mendelssohn And The Berlin Circle Of Maskilim Christoph Schulte: Saul Ascher’s Leviathan, Or The Invention Of Jewish Orthodoxy In 1792
II. Jewish Acculturation And Scholarship
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Preface By John Grenville And Julius Carlebach
I. German-jewish Intellectual Development From The Late Eighteenth To The Nineteenth Century
Moshe Carmilly-weinberger: The Similarities And Relationship Between The Jüdisch-theologisches Seminar (Breslau) And The Rabbinical Seminary Of Budapest Edward Breuer: The Deutsche Encyclopädie And The Jews Michael…
Religion and Jewish teaching
Zunz's Concept of Haggadah as an Expression of Jewish Spirituality by Maren R. Niehoff Hermann Cohen's Teaching Concerning Modern Jewish Identity (1904–1918) by Avi Bernstein-Nahar From “the Priestess of the Home” to “the Rabbi's Brilliant Daughter”. Concepts of Jewish Womanhood and Progressive Germanness in Die Deborahand the …
Individual and community in the age of emancipation
Marcus Mosse: A Jew in the Prussian Province of Posen by Elisabeth Kraus Between Orthodoxy and Reform, Revolution and Reaction: The Jewish Community in Ichenhausen, 1813–1861 by Lisa Harries-Schumann “Making Jargon Respectable” Leo Winz, Ost und West and the Reception of Yiddish Theatre in Pre-Hitler Germany by David A…
Intellectual history and religious thought
Mordechai Shnaber-Levison: The Life, Works and Thought of a Haskalah Outsider by Heinz Moshe Graupe Jakob Weil's Contribution to a Modern Concept of Haggadah by Maren R. Niehoff “How Awesome is this Place!” The Reconceptualisation of the Synagogue in Nineteenth-Century Germany by Michael A. Meyer The So-Called Quiet Years of…
German and Austrian Jews in the fight against National-Socialist Germany
Resistance of German and Austrian Jews to the Nazi Regime 1933–1945 by Arnold Paucker German-and Austrian-Jewish Volunteers in Britain's Armed Forces 1939–1945 by John P. Fox The Jewish Exiles in the Service of US Intelligence: The Post-War Years by Guy Stern
Jewish conversion from…
Identity and emancipation
German-Jewish Identity in the Correspondence Between Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Her Brother, Ludwig Robert Hopes and Realities of Emancipation 1780–1830 by Heidi Thomann Tewarson Rhenish Liberalism and the Jewish Question in the Vormärz: The Case of the Kölnische Zeitung 1841–1847 by Anita Bunyan A Nineteenth-Century Yiddish Newspaper “Israels…
German Jews in the era of emancipation
War and Patriotism in Sermons to Central European Jews: 1756–1815 by Marc Saperstein The Jews of Sachsen-Meiningen and the Edict of 1811 by Franz Levi Missionary Politics. Protestant Missions to the Jews in Nineteenth-Century Prussia by Christopher Clark Philanthropy, the “Social Question” and Jewish Identity in Imperial Germany by…
Jewish culture and religion
Jews, the Enlightenment and Religious Toleration – Some Reflections by David Sorkin Jewish Burials in Germany – Between Tradition, the Enlightenment and the Authorities by Falk Wiesemann History as Consolation by Ismar Schorsch Orthodoxy versus Reform: The Case of Rabbi Nehemiah Anton Nobel of Frankfurt a. Main by Rachel Heuberger
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Burgeoning emancipation
Two Silent Minorities: Orthodox Jews and Poor Jews in Berlin 1770–1823 by Steven M. Lowenstein The World of Moses Mendelssohn by Eva Engel Holland
Jewish self-defence
Anti-Anti 1889/1892 by Jacob Toury The Rise of Jewish Defence Agitation in Germany, 1890–1895: A Pre-history of the C.V.? by Jacob Borut The…
Historiography
Recent Historiography on the Jewish Religion by Michael A. Meyer Emancipation and Assimilation: Two Concepts and their Application to German-Jewish History by David Sorkin Jewish History and Jewish Historiography: A Challenge to Contemporary German Historiography by Moshe Zimmermann
Emancipation, acculturation, modernity The…
Patterns of assimilation and acculturation
Jewish Conversions – A Measure of Assimilation? A Discussion of the Berlin Secession Statistics of 1770–1941 by Peter Honigmann The Myth of Sephardic Supremacy by Ismar Schorsch Public Opinion and the Proposed Emancipation of the Jews in Bavaria in 1849–1850 by James F. Harris Jewish Participation in the Deutscher Nationalverein…
The course of emancipation
Breakthrough into the Past: The Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden by Ismar Schorsch Dohm's Treatise on the Jews: A Defence of the Enlightenment by Robert Liberles Problems and Limits of Assimilation: Hermann and Paul Wallich 1833–1938 by Werner E. Mosse The Foundations of German-Jewish Orthodoxy: An Interpretation by Julius Carlebach…
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Contents
Preface
Introduction By Robert Weltsch
I. In Memoriam Leo Baeck
S. Moses: The Impact Of Leo Baeck's Personality On His Contemporaries
H. Liebeschutz: Judaism And The History Of Religion In Leo Baeck's Work
Eva Reichmann: Symbol Of German Jewry
Wolfgang…
From the past to the present
Jewish History As We See It by Selmar Spier Principles of German Policy towards the Jews at the Beginning of the Modern Era by Selma Stern-Taeubler The Terms of Emancipation 1781–1812: The public debate in Germany and its effect on the mentality and ideas of German Jewry by H. D. Schmidt In Memory of Two of Our Dead by Leo Baeck The Beginning…