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“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…

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…

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…

XI, 257 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163136-8 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163136-8

IX, 704 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163135-1 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163135-1

XII, 169 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163604-2 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163604-2

XV, 251 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163137-5 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163137-5

XIII, 445 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-162955-6 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-162955-6

XXVII, 796 (2 Bde.) pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163618-9 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163618-9

VI, 370 (-815) pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163611-0 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163611-0

49 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163566-3 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163566-3

136 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163567-0 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163567-0

LII, 329 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163708-7 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163708-7

XX, 615 pages. ISBN: 978-3-16-163616-5 DOI: 10.1628/978-3-16-163616-5

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Vorwort IX

1. Kapitel Die Ursprünge

a) Die jüdische traditionelle Erwachsenenbildung . 1

b) Die deutsche Volkshochschulbewegung … 4

c) Das “Freie Jüdische Lehrhaus” in Frankfurt a. M.
und die „Schule der…

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…

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…

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.)

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…

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…