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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 1995

Preface by John Grenville and Julius Carlebach

 

I. GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN JEWS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST NATIONAL SOCIALIST GERMANY

ARNOLD PAUCKER: Resistance of German and Austrian Jews to the Nazi Regime 1933–1945

JOHN P. FOX: German-and Austrian-Jewish Volunteers in Britain’s Armed Forces 1939–1945

GUY STERN: The Jewish Exiles in the Service of US Intelligence: The Post-War Years

 

II. JEWISH CONVERSION FROM THE SEVENTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

ELISHEVA CARLEBACH: Converts and their Narratives in Early Modern Germany: The Case of Friedrich Albrecht Christiani

DEBORAH HERTZ: Why Did the Christian Gentleman Assault the Judischer Elegant? Four Conversion Stories from Berlin, 1816–1825

ALAN LEVENSON: The Conversionary Impulse in Fin De Siècle Germany

TODD M. ENDELMAN: Leaving the Jewish Fold in Germany: Comments on the Papers of Elisheva Carlebach, Deborah Hertz and Alan Levenson

 

III. GERMAN JEWS IN THE AGE OF EMANCIPATION

SHMUEL FEINER: Mendelssohn and “Mendelssohn’s Disciples”: A Re-examination

DAVID SORKIN: Religious Reforms and Secular Trends in German-Jewish Life: An Agenda for Research

DAGMAR HERZOG: The Rise of the Religious Right and the Recasting of the “Jewish Question”. Baden in the 1840s

 

IV. RESPONSES TO PERSECUTION IN THE 1930S. TWO NEW PERSPECTIVES

EDITH RAIM: The Persecution of the Heine Family in Germany 1933–1939

ANDREW CHANDLER: Lambeth Palace, the Church of England and the Jews of Germany and Austria in 1938

 

V. JUDAICA

DAVID ELLENSON: A Disputed Precedent: The Prague Organ in Nineteenth-Century Central-European Legal Literature and Polemics

EDWARD VAN VOOLEN ET AL.: Jewish Ceremonial Silver from Germany in the Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

 

VI. HISTORIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW

KURT PÄTZOLD: Persecution and the Holocaust: A Provisional Review of GDR Historiography

 

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