Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2018

Contents

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                                                                                                                   

Tobias Ebbrecht-Hartmann: Projected Encounters: Rolf Vogel and the Beginnings of Cinematic Relations between Germany and Israel

Lisa Schoß: ‘Israel’ in East German Fiction Film                                                                                       

Hilla Lavie: A Critical Look at the Beloved Land: Two West German Documentary Films Made by Israelis in the 1960s and 1970s

III. Modernity and the ‘Jewess’: German-Jewish Women’s Writing in the First half of the Twentieth Century

Godela Weiss-Sussex: Introduction                                                                                                                       

Florian Krobb: Rupture and Dissolution: Gertrud Kolmar’s Prose Works and Modernity                  

Elizabeth Boa: Modernity and German-Jewish Identity in Gabriele Tergit’s ‘Effingers’                        

Robert Gillett: Lessons in Mourning: Elsa Bernstein’s Memoir of Theresienstadt                               

Andrea Hammel: Negotiating the ‘I’ and the ‘We’: Aspects of Modernism in the Exile Novels of Anna Gmeyner and Martina Wied

IV. Culture and Antisemitism in Austria

Julia Secklehner: Bolshevik Jews, Aryan Vienna? Popular Antisemitism in ‘Der Kikeriki’, 1918-1933  

Frances Tanzer: Performing the Austrian-Jewish (Negative) Symbiosis: Stella Kadmon’s Viennese Stage from Red Vienna to the Second Republic       

V. Essays

Renate Evers: ‘Der vollkommene Pferdekenner’, 1764: Jewish Horse Traders in the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach and their Language at the Threshold of Modernity                                    

Samuel J. Kessler: “Garrulous, lamenting, whiney, but always interesting”: Heinrich Graetz’sEvolving Characterizations of His Contemporaries from the ‘Diary’ to the ‘History of the Jews’              

Zohar Maor: Kohn’s Buber, Buber’s Kohn: Hans Kohn’s Biography of Martin Buber Revisited          

Anna Holzer Kawalko: Jewish Intellectuals between Robbery and Restitution: Ernst Grumach in Berlin, 1941-1946

VI. Voices from the Past

Tim Corbett: Gustav Cohn’s Jewish Cemetery: A Cultural History

VII. Of Contributors

VIII. Erratum

IX. Index