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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2022

Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin, David Rechter, and Daniel Wildmann

 

I. THE ENLIGHTENMENT AGE AND THE JEWS

KAMILA LENARTOWICZ: Nothing Out of the Ordinary: The Life of Salomon Marcus

CARL NIEKERK: Johann Gottfried Herder, Enlightenment Anthropology, and the Jew as a ‘Parasitic Plant’

 

II. JEWS IN FIN-DE-SIÈCLE AUSTRIA

JOHANNES CZAKAI: Of Bug Crushers and Barbaric Clerks: The Fabricated History of Jewish Family Names in Karl Emil Franzos’ ‘Namensstudien’ (1880)

STEVEN SAMOLS: Capturing Difference: The Wurstelprater Photobook in Turn-of-the-Century Vienna

 

III. ESSAY PRIZE WINNER 2021

STEFAN BOBERG: Implementing the Reichsbürgergesetz: Registration, Statistics, and the Deportations of German Jews

 

IV. SEPHARDI JEWS BETWEEN VIENNA AND THE BALKANS

FANI GARGOVA: Situating Sephardi Spaces Between Vienna and the Balkans: An Introduction

LESLEY WHITWORTH: The Visual Repertoire of Willy de Majo: Translocations and Transports of Delight

MARTIN STECHAUNER: Vienna—The Cradle of Sephardic Sephardism

 

V. SALMAN SCHOCKEN: PUBLISHER AND COLLECTOR

CAROLINE JESSEN: Introduction: Material Transfer—Intellectual Transfer: Salman Schocken’s Collections

GERSHOM SCHOCKEN ET AL.: I will not see his like again: Remembering Salman Schocken (1968)

JULIA SCHNEIDAWIND: A Friendship Ex Libris – Karl Wolfskehl, Salman Schocken, and their Libraries

CAROLINE JESSEN AND SUSANNA BROGI: Contested Cultural Affiliations: Salman Schocken’s Novalis Collection and the Nuremberg Haggadot from the Germanisches Nationalmuseum

 

VI. MEMOIR

SUSAN HAMLYN AND LINDA GAUS: The Autobiography of Willy Katzenstein: Part One, 1874–1932

 

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