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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2012

Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin and Raphael Gross

 

I. THE GERMAN-JEWISH LITERARY CANON

MARK H. GELBER: Autobiography and History: Stefan Zweig, Theodor Herzl and Die Welt von Gestern

CAROLINE JESSEN: “Vergangenheiten haben ihr eigenes Beharrungsvermögen …” Josef Kastein and the Troublesome Persistence of a Canon of German Literature in Palestine/Israel

SANDER L. GILMAN: ‘Jewish Humour’ and the Terms by Which Jews and Muslims Join Western Civilization

 

II. THE GERMAN RABBINATE ABROAD

CORNELIA WILHELM AND TOBIAS GRILL: The German Rabbinate Abroad Introduction

CHAYA BRASZ: Dutch Jewry and its Undesired German Rabbinate

MICHAEL A. MEYER: The Refugee Rabbis: Trials and Transmissions

ROBERT JÜTTE: Not Welcomed with Open Arms. German Rabbis in Eretz Yisrael, 1933-1948

 

III. GERMAN-JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND THOUGHT

IRA BEDZOW: Minhag Israel Torah He (The Custom of Israel is Torah): The Role of Custom in the Formation of Orthodoxy

MATTHEW HANDELMAN: Franz Rosenzweig’s Modern Mathematics

JUDAH LEVINE: “The Holy Spark”: Martin Buber and New Jewish Learning

ELIAS SACKS: Finden Sie mich sehr amerikanisch? Jacob Taubes, Hermann Cohen, and the Return to German-Jewish Liberalism

 

IV. JEWISH POLITICS

ADAM SUTCLIFFE: Ludwig Börne, Jewish Messianism, and the Politics of Money

ROBERT S. WISTRICH: Rosa Luxemburg: The Polish-German-Jewish Identities of a Revolutionary Internationalist

STEFAN VOGT: The First World War, German Nationalism, and the Transformation of German Zionism

 

V. CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE AND ART

JUDITH KEILBACH: Houses, Vases, Bicycles and Rocking Horses: ‘Aryanised’ Objects in the DocumentariesDie Akte Joel and Mariannes Heimkehr

RACHEL RAMSAY: Eine verwandtschaftliche Verbindung (A Connection of Kinship)? Jewish-Turkish Alliances in Contemporary Jewish Writing in German

 

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