Publications

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

REINHARD RÜRUP: Jewish History in Berlin: Berlin in Jewish History

ANDREAS BRÄMER: Rabbinical Scholars as the Object of Biographical Interest: An Aspect of Jewish Historiography in the German-speaking Countries of Europe (1780–1871)

MANFRED VOIGTS…

Eleonore Lappin investigates Martin Buber’s journal Der Jude (‘The Jew’) In doing so she provides a valuable service to the understanding of Zionism and the specific political, social and economic development of Jews in Europe and Palestine.

XVII, 456 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163589-2 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163589-2

What was the relationship between Jewish studies and Protestant theology in the German Empire? Christian Wiese investigates this question and shows possible forms of contemporary dialogue between Christian theology and Judaism.

XXV, 507 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163592-2 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163592-2

I. GERMAN-JEWISH INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT FROM THE LATE EIGHTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

MOSHE CARMILLY-WEINBERGER: The Similarities and Relationship Between the Jüdisch-Theologisches Seminar (Breslau) and the Rabbinical Seminary (Budapest)

EDWARD BREUER: The Deutsche Encyclopädie and the Jews

MICHAEL NAGEL: The Beginnings of Jewish Children’s Literature in High German: Three Schoolbooks from Berlin (1779), Prague (1781) and Dessau (1782)

MOSHE PELLI: When Did Haskalah Begin? Establishing the…

An international group of scholars and experts on Jewish, German, British and European history present the first comparative approach to an examination of Jewish history in Germany and Great Britain from the late 18th century to the 1930s. Their essays encompass a large spectrum and deal with social, political, cultural and economic aspects concerning the historical experience of Jews in both countries.

The contributions go beyond a mere parallel investigation of both countries’ history, as they give equal consideration to German and British Jewry and ask comparative questions.…

288 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163586-1 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163586-1

I. RELIGION AND JEWISH TEACHING

MAREN R. NIEHOFF: Zunz’s Concept of Haggadah as an Expression of Jewish Spirituality

AVI BERNSTEIN-NAHAR: Hermann Cohen’s Teaching Concerning Modern Jewish Identity (1904–1918)

MARIA T. BAADER: From “the Priestess of the Home” to “the Rabbi’s Brilliant Daughter”. Concepts of Jewish Womanhood and Progressive Germanness in Die Deborah and the American Israelite, 1854–1900

JACOB HABERMAN: Kaufmann Kohler and his Teacher Samson Raphael Hirsch…

“This work … is undoubtedly a result of modern intellectual and social history. After numerous isolated studies we now have access to a complex, diverse work which grants surprising insights, offers interpretations and asks questions.”
- Peter Steinbach in Jahrbuch für die Geschichte Mittel- und Ostdeutschlands, vol. 27

“Especially praiseworthy is the quality of this work, containing multiple outstanding contributions. Seeing as the essays boast not only academic excellence but are also easy to read, this book is a great introduction to the multifaceted problems of German…

The group biography focuses on the German-speaking founders of the Palestine Orchestra – nowadays called the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra – which was created by the violinist Bronislaw. Using contemporary witness accounts and newly released written documentation, Barbara von der Lühe unravels the paths that led 50 Jewish musicians, conductors and musicologists from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia to emigrate to Palestine between 1933 and 1939. They escaped from National Socialism thanks to the orchestra in Tel Aviv, which gave them the possibility to relocate to British Mandate…

VII, 295 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163588-5 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163588-5

I. INDIVIDUAL AND COMMUNITY IN THE AGE OF EMANCIPATION

ELISABETH KRAUS: Marcus Mosse: A Jew in the Prussian Province of Posen

LISA HARRIES-SCHUMANN: Between Orthodoxy and Reform, Revolution and Reaction: The Jewish Community in Ichenhausen, 1813–1861

II. YIDDISH STUDIES IN THE WILHELMINIAN AND WEIMAR YEARS

DAVID A. BRENNER: “Making Jargon Respectable” Leo Winz, Ost und West and the Reception of Yiddish Theatre in Pre-Hitler Germany

DELPHINE BECHTEL: Cultural Transfers between “…

XI, 444 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163585-4 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163585-4

XIV, 333 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163583-0 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163583-0

I. INTELLECTUAL HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT

HEINZ MOSHE GRAUPE: Mordechai Shnaber-Levison: The Life, Works and Thought of a Haskalah Outsider

MAREN R. NIEHOFF: Jakob Weil’s Contribution to a Modern Concept of Haggadah

MICHAEL A. MEYER: “How Awesome is this Place!” The Reconceptualisation of the Synagogue in Nineteenth-Century Germany

ROBERT LIBERLES: The So-Called Quiet Years of German Jewry 1849–1869: A Reconsideration

MORDECHAI BREUER: Orthodoxy in Germany and its…

XVI, 388 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163582-3 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163582-3

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:…

XVI, 258 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-162956-3 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-162956-3

I. IDENTITY AND EMANCIPATION

HEIDI THOMANN TEWARSON: German-Jewish Identity in the Correspondence Between Rahel Levin Varnhagen and Her Brother, Ludwig Robert Hopes and Realities of Emancipation 1780–1830

ANITA BUNYAN: Rhenish Liberalism and the Jewish Question in the Vormärz: The Case of the Kölnische Zeitung 1841–1847

ASTRID STARCK: A Nineteenth-Century Yiddish Newspaper “Israels Stimme: Hakol kol yaakov”

KEITH H. PICKUS: Jewish University Students in Germany and the Construction of a Post-…

I. GERMAN JEWS IN THE ERA OF EMANCIPATION

MARC SAPERSTEIN: War and Patriotism in Sermons to Central European Jews: 1756–1815

FRANZ LEVI: The Jews of Sachsen-Meiningen and the Edict of 1811

CHRISTOPHER CLARK: Missionary Politics. Protestant Missions to the Jews in Nineteenth-Century Prussia

DEREK J. PENSLAR: Philanthropy, the “Social Question” and Jewish Identity in Imperial Germany

JOHN M. EFRON: Scientific Racism and the Mystique of Sephardic Racial Superiority

I. JEWISH CULTURE AND RELIGION

DAVID SORKIN: Jews, the Enlightenment and Religious Toleration – Some Reflections

FALK WIESEMANN: Jewish Burials in Germany – Between Tradition, the Enlightenment and the Authorities

ISMAR SCHORSCH: History as Consolation

RACHEL HEUBERGER: Orthodoxy versus Reform: The Case of Rabbi Nehemiah Anton Nobel of Frankfurt a. Main

II. EMANCIPATION RE-ASSESSED

ARNO HERZIG: The Process of Emancipation from the Congress of Vienna to the…