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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2013

Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin and Raphael Gross

 

I. JEWS AND THE LAW IN MODERN EUROPE: EMANCIPATION, DESTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION

WARREN ROSENBLUM: Introduction

DOUGLAS G. MORRIS: The Dual State Reframed: Ernst Fraenkel’s Political Clients and his Theory of the Nazi Legal System

LISA MOSES LEFF: The Jewish Oath and the Making of Secularism in Modern France

WARREN ROSENBLUM: Jews, Justice, and the Power of “Sensation” in the Weimar Republic

IRIS NACHUM: Reconstructing Life after the Holocaust: The Lastenausgleichsgesetz and the Jewish Struggle for Compensation

 

II. DISLOCATING KNOWLEDGE: CENTRAL-EUROPEAN JEWISH SCHOLARS IN EXILE

IRENE AUE-BEN-DAVID ET AL.: Introduction

LAURA JOCKUSCH: Historiography in Transit: Survivor Historians and the Writing of Holocaust History in the late 1940s

RUCHAMA JOHNSTON-BLOOM: Symbiosis Relocated: The German-Jewish Orientalist Ilse Lichtenstadter in America

KIM WÜNSCHMANN: The “Scientification” of the Concentration Camp: Early Theories of Terror and Their Reception by American Academia

IRENE AUE-BEN-DAVID: The Making of a “Classic” of German-Jewish Historiography—Selma Stern’s “Der preussische Staat und die Juden”

 

III. RELIGION

MICHAEL A. MEYER: Scholarship and Worldliness: The Life and Work of Fritz Bamberger

 

IV. MEDIA HISTORY

BENJAMIN LAPP: The Newspaper Aufbau, its Evolving Politics, and the Problem of German-Jewish Identity, 1939–1955

ELIEZER SARIEL: “In the East Lie My Roots; My Branches in the West.” The Distinctiveness of the Jews of Posen in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

 

V. HISTORY OF ANTISEMITISM

AMOS MORRIS-REICH: Taboo and Classification: Post-1945 German Racial Writing on Jews

 

VI. LITERATURE

ILSE JOSEPHA LAZAROMS: “In the Beginning was the Garden”: Arthur Schnitzler and the Politicization of Jewish Identities in Fin-de-Siècle Central Europe

VERENA HUTTER: Identity Politics and the Jewish Body in Edgar Hilsenrath’s “The Nazi and the Barber”

 

VII. REVIEW ARTICLE

KERSTIN VON DER KRONE AND MIRJAM THULIN: Wissenschaft in Context: A Research Essay on the Wissenschaft des Judentums

 

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