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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2014

Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin and Raphael Gross

 

I. JEWS AND CITIZENSHIP

ANDREAS BRÄMER AND GIDEON REUVENI: Introduction Jews as German Citizens: The Prussian Emancipation Edict of 1812 and Beyond

GIDEON REUVENI: Emancipation through Consumption: Moses Mendelssohn and the Idea of Marketplace Citizenship

MICHAŁ SZULC: A Gracious Act or Merely a Regulation of Economic Activity? A Daily Life Perspective on the Reception of the Prussian Emancipation Edict of 1812

MIRIAM RÜRUP: The Citizen and its Other: Zionist and Israeli Responses to Statelessness

 

II. GERMAN-SPEAKING JEWS AND THE POLITICS OF ANTISEMITISM

DAVID A. MEOLA: German Jews and the Local German Press: The Jewish Struggle for Acceptance in Constance, 1846

LISA FETHERINGILL ZWICKER: Conservative Ideological Resurgence, Nationalist Rallying, and Students: The German Burschenschaft and Antisemitism, 1890–1900

STEPHANIE SEUL: Transnational Press Discourses on German Antisemitism during the Weimar Republic: The Riots in Berlin’s Scheunenviertel, 1923

 

III. LANGUAGE, PHILOSOPHY, AND CULTURE

GERTRUD REERSHEMIUS: Language as the Main Protagonist? East Frisian Yiddish in the Writing of Isaac Herzberg

SUSANNE HILLMAN: “A Few Human Beings Walking Hand in Hand”: Margarete Susman, Leonhard Ragaz, and the Origins of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Zurich

URI GANANI: The Politics of Arabella: Post-Wagnerian Opera and the German-Jewish Quest for Lyrical Individualism, 1928–1933

 

IV. AFTER THE HOLOCAUST

DOV SCHIDORSKY: Hannah Arendt’s Dedication to Salvaging Jewish Culture

JONATHAN R. ZATLIN: Repetition and Loss: Jewish Refugees and German Communists after the Holocaust, 1945–1951

 

V. AUSTRIAN FILM AND LITERATURE

NICHOLAS BAER: The Rebirth of a Nation:Cinema, Herzlian Zionism, and Emotion in Jewish History

KATYA KRYLOVA: Melancholy Journeys in the Films of Ruth Beckermann

ANDREA REITER: The Appropriation of Myth as a ‘Language’ in Julya Rabinowich’s ‘Jewish’ Novels

 

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