Publications

Preface by John A. S. Grenville and Raphael Gross

I. Discussion

The Future of German-Jewish Studies

II. Jewish Identity, Philosophy and Religious thinking

Nimrod Zinger: «Our hearts and spirits were broken»: The medical world from the perspective of German Jewish patients in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

For patients in early modern European society family members and close acquaintances played a very important role in the provision of medical care. This was true also of the Jewish community in Germany. Various…

What links gymnasts with harmony, masculinity and being Jewish? And why do such questions indicate fracturing in Jewish integration into the German Empire? Daniel Wildmann seeks to answer these questions and offers a new perspective on the practices of Jewish self-understanding around 1900.

73 Wildmann, Daniel: Der veränderbare Körper (2009, 329 pp.)

Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross

 I. The Perception Of Jews In German Society  

Aya Elyada: Yiddish – Language Of Conversion? Linguistic Adaptation And Its Limits In Early Modern Judenmission   Christian Stuart Davis: Colonialism And Antisemitism During The Kaiserreich: Bernhard Dernburg And The Antisemites   Michah Gottlieb: Publishing The Moses Mendelssohn Jubiläumsausgabe In Weimar And Nazi Germany   David Heredia: Der Spiegel And The Image Of Jews In Germany: The Early Years, 1947-1956  

II.…

Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross

I. Jewish Identity

Amy Blau: Claims Of Language: Translation As A Mediation Of Jewish
Identity And The Yiddish Reception Of Nelly Sachs

Manfred Jehle: “Relocations” In South Prussia And New East Prussia:
Prussia’s Demographic Policy Towards The Jews In Occupied Poland
1772–1806

Jonathan M. Hess: Fiction And The Making Of Modern Orthodoxy,
1857–1890: Orthodoxy And The Quest For The German-jewish Novel

David Rechter…

This collection studies the relationship between the cultural, religious and social circumstances of German-speaking Jews and their academic work.

72 Charpa, Ulrich / Deichmann, Ute (eds.): Jews and Sciences in German Contexts, (2007, 312 pp.)

Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross

I. Sustenance For The Soul

Michael A. Meyer: German Jewish Thinkers Reflect On The Future Of The
Jewish Religion

Uta Lohmann: “Sustenance For The Learned Soul”: The History Of The
Oriental Printing Press At The Publishing House Of The Jewish Free School
In Berlin

II. Jewish Life And Society:

From The Nineteenth To The Twentieth Century

Reinhard Rürup: Jewish Emancipation And The…

Theodor Fontanes earliest, continuous collection of letters is his correspondence with the Ukrainian Jewish writer Wilhelm Wolfsohn. These manuscripts will be academically published for the first time, accompanied by a collection of essays which shed light on the biographical and cultural context behind the letters.

71 Wolzogen, Hanna Delf von / Shedletzky, Itta (eds.): Theodor Fontane und Wilhelm Wolfsohn – eine interkulturelle Beziehung, (2006, 548 pp.)

Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross

I. Intellectual Resistance In Theresienstadt

Miriam Intrator: The Theresienstadt Ghetto Central Library, Books And Reading: Intellectual Resistance And Escape During The Holocaust

II. Literary Interpretation And Intellectual History

Elizabeth Petuchowski: “Ein Wort—Du Weißt”: Finding A Solution To A Riddle In Paul Celan’s Poem Nächtlich Geschürzt

Joel Golb: Celan’s “Tones”: A Reading Of Huhediblu

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Preserving the Legacy of German Jewry. A History of the Leo Baeck Institute, 1955-2005, (2005, 474 pp.)

Founded in May 1955 in Jerusalem by German-Jewish intellectuals who had survived the Holocaust - among them Martin Buber, Ernst Simon, Gershom Scholem, and Robert Weltsch - the Leo Baeck Institute of Jews from Germany (LBI) has been engaged in preserving the legacy of German Jewry by collecting material, doing research, and presenting historical narratives. Published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, the present volume is the first to…

Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross  

I. The End Of The War And The Holocaust   

Andreas Kossert: “Endlösung On The ‘Amber Shore’”: The Massacre In January 1945 On The Baltic Seashore – A Repressed Chapter Of East Prussian History  

II. Jewish Intellectuals   

Christian Wiese: “For A Time I Was Privileged To Enjoy His Friendship…”: The Ambivalent Relationship Between Hans Jonas And Gershom Scholem   Jörg Hackeschmidt: The Torch Bearer: Norbert Elias As A…

Selma Stern (1890-1981) the “grand old lady of German-Jewish historical scholarship” created an extensive corpus of literature about German-Jewish history in the modern era. Marina Sassenberg takes a look at the interaction between biography and historical understanding for of the first female German historians and the first woman in the scholarship of Judaism.

293 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-162841-2 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-162841-2

Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross  

I. Religious Renewal  

Edward Breuer And David Sorkin: Moses Mendelssohn’s First Hebrew Publication: An Annotated Translation Of The Kohelet Mussar   This Is The First Translation Into English Of Moses Mendelssohn’s First Hebrew Work, The Kohelet Mussar Or Preacher Of Morals, Published Sometime In The 1750S. The Translation Comes With Annotations And An Introduction. While Scholars Can Agree On Little About This Obscure Work, The Text Shows An Attempt To Create A Journal In Hebrew That Could Merge…

In this volume, leading historians, political scientists and literary scholars from all over the world make a systematic attempt at a comparative study of Jewish history in Germany and France in the modern era. The focus is the paradigmatic paths of Jewish emancipation in both countries, although current problems, like civil rights and the situation in modern day Europe, play a role as well.

VI, 245 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163597-7 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163597-7

What caused the failure of Jewish emancipation in Germany? Intrigued by this question, Ulrich Wyrwa examines the specific accomplishments and the unique obstacles of Jews in the era of emancipation, using Prussian and Tuscan cities as examples.

IX, 491 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163143-6 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163143-6

Preface By John Grenville And Raphael Gross  

I. Jewish Intellectual Responses To Tradition And Modernity  

Astrid Deuber-mankowsky: Walter Benjamin’s Theological-political Fragment As A Response To Ernst Bloch’s Spirit Of Utopia   Taking Jacob Taubes’ Polemical Essay “Walter Benjamin – A Modern Marcionite?” As A Starting Point, This Article Aims To Clarify The Differences Between Ernst Bloch And Walter Benjamin. These Mainly Lie In Benjamin’s Concept Of The Nature Of “Desire”, Which, Unlike Bloch’s Concept Of “Hope”, Is Never Thought Of As…

Preface By John Grenville And Arnold Paucker  

I. Jews In The Age Of Metternich  

Edward Timms: The Pernicious Rift: Metternich And The Debate About Jewish Emanicipation At The Congress Of Viennna   Niall Ferguson: Metternich And The Rothschilds: “A Dance With Torches On Powderkegs”?   Robert J. W. Evans: Progress And Emancipation In Hungary During The Age Of Metternich   Eda Sagarra: Grillparzer, The Catholics And The Jews: A Reading Of Die Jüdin Von Toledo (1851)   Ritchie Robertson: Karl Beck: From Radicalism To Monarchism…

This publication documents the diversity of the Jewish bourgoisie across the different social classes, but also the limitations placed on this minority in Germany. The authors combine new discoveries in the field of German-Jewish history with the field of research concerning societies and social classes.

IX, 444 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163594-6 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163594-6

Using the publisher Henri Hinrichsen as an example, Erika Bucholtz presents an important section of German-Jewish city, social and cultural history.. Her research is a cornerstone in the examination of the history of music labels and producers, a field within musicology, as well as social and cultural historiography, that has long been underappreciated.

VIII, 367 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163595-3 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163595-3

The German-Jewish historian Selma Stern (1890-1981) researched mythos and reality, the rise and fall of ‘Court Jew’ dynasties like Behrens, Ephraim, Gumperts, Itzig, Kann and Wertheimer. Marina Sassenberg presents the first German publication of this work.

X, 284 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163596-0 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163596-0

Preface By John Grenville And Julius Carle  

I. Jewish Philosophy And Politics In The Enlightenment  

Rivka Horwitz: Kabbalah In The Writings Of Mendelssohn And The Berlin Circle Of Maskilim   Christoph Schulte: Saul Ascher’s Leviathan, Or The Invention Of Jewish Orthodoxy In 1792  

II. Jewish Acculturation And Scholarship  

Reinhard Rürup: Jewish History In Berlin – Berlin In Jewish History   Andreas Brämer: Rabbinical Scholars As The Object Of Biographical Interest: An Aspect Of Jewish…