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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.…

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…

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…

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…

What significance did Orientalism have for German-Jewish literature? In the period of upheaval that was the early 1800s, Jewish authors, through literary means, took it upon themselves to infuse their contemporary European writing scene with a touch of oriental splendour.

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[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…

Published in English.

The Wissenschaft des Judentums was born in the battle for equality, integration, and regeneration in nineteenth-century Germany and in its turn to history posed an intellectual revolution for modern Judaism. In this volume of collected essays, Ismar…

Lisa Sophie Gebhard

Published in German.

Lisa Sophie Gebhard explores the multifaceted activities of the Zionist Davis Trietsch (1870–1935), who was once a remarkable figure on the Jewish nationalist scene but after his death disappeared almost entirely from historical…

A cultural history of friendship in Germanic Judaism

Gerade für die junge Generation der um 1900 Geborenen repräsentierte die Ideologie, das Versprechen der Freundschaft so vieles, das ihrem alltäglichen Leben Sinn und Bedeutung gab. Die Frage, wie »richtig« zu leben sei, konnte die…

Interconnectivity and Entanglements
Edited by Susanne Marten-Finnis and Michael Nagel

Susanne Marten-Finnis Born 1957; Professor Emeritus of Applied Linguistics in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Portsmouth; visiting scholar at…