Yearbook

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

I. RELIGIOUS RENEWAL

EDWARD BREUER AND DAVID SORKIN: Moses Mendelssohn’s First Hebrew Publication: An Annotated Translation of the Kohelet Mussar

ANDREAS BRÄMER: The Dialectics of Religious Reform: The Hamburger Israelitische Tempel in Its…

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

LOUISE HECHT: “How the power of thought can develop…

I. JEWS IN THE AGE OF METTERNICH

EDWARD TIMMS: The Pernicious Rift: Metternich and the Debate about Jewish Emancipation at the Congress of Vienna

NIALL FERGUSON: Metternich and the Rothschilds: “A Dance With Torches on Powder Kegs”?…

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…

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…

INTRODUCTION

GEORGE L. MOSSE: German Jews and Liberalism in Retrospect: Introduction to Year Book XXXII

I. EMANCIPATION

GORDON A. CRAIG: Frederick the Great and Moses Mendelssohn: Thoughts on Jewish Emancipation

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I. EMANCIPATION

REINHARD RÜRUP: The Tortuous and Thorny Path to Legal Equality: “Jew Laws” and Emancipatory Legislation in Germany From the Late Eighteenth Century

ROBERT LIBERLES: Was There a Jewish Movement for Emancipation in Germany?…

I. FROM WEIMAR TO HITLER

ERNEST HAMBURGER AND PETER PULZER: Jews as Voters in the Weimar Republic

BARBARA SUCHY: The Verein Zur Abwehr Des Antisemitismus (II): From the First World War to its Dissolution in 1933

JEHUDA REINHARZ…

I. THE JEWISH MINORITY

MARION A. KAPLAN: Tradition and Transition: The Acculturation, Assimilation and Integration of Jews in Imperial Germany: A Gender Analysis

STEFI JERSCH-WENZEL: The Jews as a “Classic” Minority in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-…

EVA G. REICHMANN: Leo Baeck Centenary: A Personal Tribute

I. FROM THE MIDDLE AGES ONWARD

HANS LIEBESCHÜTZ: The Relevance of the Middle Ages for the Understanding of Contemporary Jewish History

JULIUS CARLEBACH:…

I. CENTRAL EUROPEAN JEWRY IN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

FOCUS ON WILHELMINIAN GERMANY

A Symposium on Prussian Jewry

MARJORIE LAMBERTI: The Prussian Government and the Jews: Official Behaviour and Policy-Making in the Wilhelminian Era…

I. RELIGIOUS TRENDS

MOSHE SCHWARCZ: Religious Currents and General Culture

MICHAEL A. MEYER: Jewish Religious Reform and Wissenschaft des Judentums: The Positions of Zunz, Geiger and Frankel

II. EMIGRATION AND…

I. STAGES OF CULTURAL RAPPROCHEMENT

SELMA STERN-TAEUBLER: The First Generation of Emancipated Jews

SIEGFRIED STEIN: Liebliche Tefilloh: A Judaeo-German Prayer-Book Printed in 1709

CURT D. WORMANN: German Jews in Israel:…

I. EMANCIPATION

ERNEST HAMBURGER: One Hundred Years of Emancipation

REINHARD RÜRUP: Jewish Emancipation and Bourgeois Society

ROBERT A. KANN: Assimilation and Antisemitism in the German-French Orbit in the Nineteenth and…

I. IN SEARCH OF A WAY OF LIFE

HANS LIEBESCHÜTZ: Hermann Cohen and his Historical Background

REUVEN MICHAEL: The Unknown Heinrich Graetz: From his Diaries and Letters

JACOB TOURY: Organizational Problems of German Jewry:…