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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2009

Preface by John 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

CHRISTIAN WIESE: “Let his Memory be Holy to Us!”: Jewish Interpretations of Martin Luther from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust

MARTINA URBAN: Towards what Kind of Unity? David Koigen, Leo Baeck and the Monism-Theism-Debate

 

III. ANTISEMITISM AND RESPONSES

LARS FISCHER: The Social Democratic response to antisemitism in Imperial Germany: The case of the Handlungsgehilfen

KAI DREWES: The Invention of Deviance: How Wilhelmine Jews Became Opponents of Ennoblement

WILLIAM OLMSTED: Turning the Tables: Freud’s Response to Antisemitism in The Interpretation of Dreams

 

IV. THE DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION, RELIEF AND RESCUE

VERENA DOHRN: Diplomacy in the Diaspora: The Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Berlin (1922–1933)

A. J. SHERMAN AND PAMELA SHATZKES: Otto M. Schiff (1875–1952), Unsung Rescuer

 

V. THE JEWISH PRESENCE IN POST-WAR GERMANY

PHILIPP J. NIELSEN: “I’ve never regretted being a German Jew”: Siegmund Weltlinger and the Re-establishment of the Jewish Community in Berlin

MICHAEL BIRNBAUM: Jewish Music, German Musicians: Cultural Appropriation and the Representation of a Minority in the German Klezmer Scene

 

VI. REFLECTIONS

ARNOLD PAUCKER: Robert Weltsch The Enigmatic Zionist: his personality and his position in Jewish politics

JÜRGEN MATTHÄUS: “You have the right to be hopeful if you do your duty”—Ten Letters by Leo Baeck to Friedrich Brodnitz, 1937–1941

YFAAT WEISS: “Nothing in my life has been lost.” Lea Goldberg revisits her German Experience

 

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