Publications

[Plants for Palestine. Otto Warburg and the Natural Sciences in the Yishuv.] Published in German.

2019. VII, 267 pages.

What story does the cultivation of Palestinian plants and other Botanical Zionism crops tell us about the historical and political relations between people, politics, and ideology? Dana von Suffrin investigates the impact made by a group of Otto Warburg-inspired Zionists who wanted to establish a Jewish state with the help of science.

As history was being recorded, the so-called botanical Zionism that grew up around the German-Jewish colonial botanist…

Preface by Cathy S Gelbin and others

I. Exile photography

Exile Photography: An Introduction by Ofer Ashkenazi and Daniel Wildmann

Family Frames as Exile Photography by Talila Kosh-Zohar

Image Transfer and Visual Friction: Staging Palestine in the National Socialist Spectacle by Rebekka Grossmann

Cute Jews: Modernist Photographic Forms and Minor Aesthetic Categories in ‘Jüdische Kinder in Erez Israel. Ein Fotobuch’ by Daniel H Magilow

Crossing Borders in the Summer of 1935: Fritz Fürstenberg’s Photographs of…

This volume collects together sources about the history of the Zionist movement in Germany between 1882 and 1933, which had previously been spread across the globe. This work aims to illustrate the development of German Zionism over time, as well as its inner conflicts, important ideological tendencies and different factions. It is accessible to both those with a special interest in the subject matter, as well as casual readers.

78 Nicosia, Francis R. (hrsg. u. eingel.): Dokumente zur Geschichte des deutschen Zionismus 1933–1941, (2018, 657 pp.)

Ilany, Ofri: In Search of the Hebrew People. Bible and Nation in the German Enlightenment, (2018) 

As German scholars, poets, and theologians searched for the origins of the ancient Israelites, Ofri Ilany believes they created a model for nationalism that drew legitimacy from the biblical idea of the Chosen People. In this broad exploration of eighteenth-century Hebraism, Ilany tells the story of the surprising role that this model played in discussions of ethnicity, literature, culture, and nationhood among the German-speaking intellectual elite. He reveals the novel portrait…

Contents

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

I. Reinhard Rürup – Obituary

Claudia Buchwald: Reinhard Rürup – Ambassador Between Worlds (27 May 1934 – 6 April 2018) 

II. Beyond the Negative Symbiosis: German-Israeli Relationships in Film

Ofer Ashkenazi: Introduction                                             …

In this rich transnational history, Cornelia Aust traces Jewish Ashkenazi families as they moved across Europe and established new commercial and entrepreneurial networks as they went. Aust balances economic history with elaborate discussions of Jewish marriage patterns, women's economic activity, and intimate family life. Following their travels from Amsterdam to Warsaw, Aust opens a multifaceted window into the lives, relationships, and changing conditions of economic activity of a new Jewish mercantile elite.

Nowhere else have Jews contributed so massively and consequentially to the general culture than in Germany. From Mendelssohn to Marx, from Freud to Einstein, Jewish contributions to secular German thought have been both wide-ranging in scope and profound in their impact. But how are these intellectual innovations contributions to European Jewish culture? How are they to be defined as Jewish? Scott Spector argues for a return to the actual subjects of German-Jewish history as a way to understand them and their worlds. By engaging deeply with the individual as well as with…

To what extent was modern Jewish art music influenced by its dissemination in British Mandate Palestine and how did its lively discourse with Hebrew culture take shape? In this book, Assaf Shelleg analyses the history of Israeli art music and brings the different aesthetics dilemmas between Modernism and Zionism to the forefront. 

77 Shelleg, Assaf: Musikalische Grenzgänge Europäisch-jüdische Kunstmusik und der Soundtrack der israelischen Geschichte, (2017, 344 pp.)

Frakes, Jerold C.

While much early Yiddish literature belonged to pious genres, quasi-secular genres—epic, drama, and lyric—also developed. Jerold Frakes contends that the historical context of the emergence of Yiddish literature is an essential factor in any understanding of its cultural relevance in a time and place where Jewish life was defined by expulsions, massacres, and discriminatory legislation that profoundly altered European Judaism and shook the very foundations of traditional Jewish society.

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Preface By Cathy S. Gelbin And Raphael Gross  

I. Jews And Citizenship   

Introduction By Andreas Braemer And Gideon Reuveni   Gideon Reuveni: Emancipation Through Consumption: Moses Mendelssohn And The Idea Of Marketplace Citizenship   Michal 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…

In this historical-biographical study, Stephan Steiner illuminates the genesis, constellation and context of Leo Strauss’ political philosophy. The core of this study is the reconstruction of the transfer history, which brought a uniquely German critique of the modernity from Weimar to America in the 20th century.

Weimar in Amerika. Leo Strauss’ Politische Philosophie, (2013, 306 pp.)

The ‘Society for the Promotion of the Sciences of Judaism’(Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums) (1902-38) supported numerous groundbreaking projects and publications and to this day has a lasting influence on the study of Jewish culture around the globe. Henry C. Soussan puts the organisation in its historical context and works out which social and ideological impulses led to its creation.

75 Soussan, Henry C.: The Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums in Its Historical Context, (2013, 193pp.)

Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin and Raphael Gross

I. Jews And The Law In Moderneurope: Emancipation, Destruction, Reconstruction

Introduction By Warren Rosenblum

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…

Mark H. Gelber

The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, Volume 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 3–33, https://doi.org/10.1093/leobaeck/ybs003

Caroline Jessen

The Leo Baeck Institute Year Book, Volume 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 35–51, https://doi.org/10.1093/leobaeck/ybs004

I. John Grenville – Obituary And Interview       

Peter Pulzer: John Grenville 1928-2011   Bea Lewkowicz: An Interview By Dr Bea Lewkowicz With Professor John Grenville  

II. Jewish Life In The Early Modern Period       

Dean Phillip Bell: Navigating The Flood Waters: Perspectives On Jewish Life In Early Modern Germany   Nimrod Zinger: Away From Home: Travelling And Leisure Activities Among German Jews In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries   Mirjam Zadoff:…

Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross  

I. Jewish And Islamic Studies   

Ismar Schorsch: Converging Cognates: The Intersection Of Jewish And Islamic Studies In Nineteenth Century Germany  

II. Overlapping Spheres   

Robert Liberles: Jews And Christians In Early Modern Germany   Yaacov Deutsch: Jewish Anti-christian Invectives And Christian Awareness: An Unstudied Form Of Interaction In The Early Modern Period   Natalie Naimark-goldberg: Health, Leisure And Sociability At The Turn Of…

In the 19th century, German Jewry went through a sweeping process of modernisation, during the course of which two central pillars of Jewish tradition were taken and redefined: the law and exegesis, Halacha and Aggadah. Both were rendered fertile soil for the scientific, literary and emancipatory goals of the modern age. Johannes Sabel sets out to trace these developments.

74 Sabel, Johannes: Die Geburt der Literatur aus der Aggada (2010, 296 pp.)