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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2002

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

LOUISE HECHT: “How the power of thought can develop within a human mind.” Salomon Maimon, Peter Beer, Lazarus Bendavid: Autobiographies of Maskilim Written in German

 

II. THE JEWISH ALLTAG IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

ROBERT LIBERLES: Introduction

RACHEL L. GREENBLATT: The Shapes of Memory: Evidence in Stone from the Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague

AVRIEL BAR-LEVAV: Ritualisation of Jewish Life and Death in the Early Modern Period

STEFAN LITT: Conversions to Christianity and Jewish Family Life in Thuringia: Case Studies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

DAVID WARREN SABEAN: Kinship and Prohibited Marriages in Baroque Germany: Divergent Strategies among Jewish and Christian Populations

KENNETH STOW: Neofiti and Their Families: Or, Perhaps, the Good of the State

 

III. JEWISH LIFE IN AUSTRIA

EVYATAR FRIESEL: The Oesterreichisches Central-organ, Vienna 1848: A Radical Jewish Periodical

RICHARD HACKEN: The Jewish Community Library in Vienna: From Dispersion and Destruction to Partial Restoration

 

IV. JEWISH ORGANISATIONS BETWEEN ADVOCACY AND ACCOMMODATION

VIRGINIA IRIS HOLMES: Integrating Diversity, Reconciling Contradiction: The Jüdischer Friedensbund in Late Weimar Germany

JAY HOWARD GELLER: Representing Jewry in East Germany, 1945–1953: Between Advocacy and Accommodation

 

V. MEMOIRS

EDUARD BLOCH: The Autobiography of Obermedizinalrat Eduard Bloch

DIETER FRANCK: Youth Protest in Nazi Germany

 

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