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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2024

Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin and David Rechter

Contents

 

I. NAVIGATING IN-BETWEENNESS: JEWISH REFUGEES IN GLOBAL TRANSIT

 

SIMONE LÄSSIG AND SWEN STEINBERG: Navigating Liminality: Jewish Refugees in Global Transit

 

LISA GERLACH: ‘I think he will be able to adjust’. Letters of Recommendation Accompanying Jewish Refugees in Transit during National Socialism

 

NATALIE EPPELSHEIMER: Diasporic (Dis)connections and In-betweennesses: German-Jewish Refugees and Indians in Kenya

 

KIMBERLY CHENG: Chongqing Transit: Central European Jewish Refugees in China’s Wartime Capital and Interior

 

SARAH HAGMANN: Managing Global Transit: International Jewish Aid Organisations and Informal Networks Between Berlin, Harbin, Bombay, and Shanghai, 1938–1939

 

SANDRA GRUNER-DOMIĆ: Holocaust Refugees in Bolivia: Immigration Through a Postcolonial and Microhistorical Lens 

 

THOMAS PEGELOW KAPLAN: Global Transit, Imperial Performativity, and Survival: European Jewish Refugees in the Philippines Under US Tutelage and Japanese Occupation, 1937–1946

 

ANNA-CAROLIN AUGUSTIN AND CAROLIN LIEBISCH-GÜMÜŞ: Epilogue: Transit Materialities: Following Objects and Infrastructures

 

II. ESSAYS

 

FELIX STEILEN: Berlin in Cincinnati—Scenes from the End of the ‘Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums’

 

CAROLINE RUPPRECHT: Melzer and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Anna Seghers’s GDR Novel Die Entscheidung (1959)

 

III. MEMOIR

 

HOWARD FALKSOHN AND ANNA NORPOTH: Felix Rosenberg—Student, Writer, Traveller

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