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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2008

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 Mendelssohn Jubiläumsausgabe in Weimar and Nazi Germany

DAVID HEREDIA: Der Spiegel and the Image of Jews in Germany: The Early Years, 1947–1956

 

II. IMMIGRATION AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE

SIBYLLE QUACK: Immigration and Change: German Jewish Presences in the United States and Germany, 25–27 March 2007, New York. A Conference Report

PETER GAY: Reflections on Hitler’s Refugees in the United States. Keynote Speech

MARION A. KAPLAN: “A Very Modest Experiment”—The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940–1945

ATINA GROSSMAN: German Jews as Provincial Cosmopolitans: Reflections from the Upper West Side

MICHAEL REISCH: The Democratic Promise: The Impact of German-Jewish Immigration on Social Work in the United States

 

III. RESTITUTION

KATHARINA RAUSCHENBERGER: The Restitution of Jewish Cultural Objects and the Activities of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc.

 

IV. MEMOIR

WILFRIED WEINKE: “…what the word liberty means to me now.” Harry Lipstadt’s Imprisonment and Escape from Hamburg

 

 

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