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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2015

Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin and Raphael Gross

 

I. AUSTRIAN, JEWISH, GERMAN, CZECH: REFRAMING MAX BROD AND PRAGUE ZIONISM

MARK H. GELBER: Introduction Max Brod in 2014

ABRAHAM RUBIN: Max Brod and Hans-Joachim Schoeps: Literary Collaborators, Ideological Rivals

SEBASTIAN SHIRRMEISTER: On Not Writing Hebrew: Max Brod and the ‘Jewish Poet of the German Tongue’ between Prague and Tel Aviv

 

II. PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

MATHIAS BEREK: Neglected German-Jewish Visions for a Pluralistic Society: Moritz Lazarus

NICK BLOCK: On Nathan Birnbaum’s Messianism and Translating the Jewish Other

THOMAS L. GERTZEN: “To Become a German and Nothing but a German …”: The Role of Paul de Lagarde in the Conversion of Egyptologist Georg Steindorff

ANDREAS LOSCH: What Is behind God’s Name? Martin Buber’s and Franz Rosenzweig’s Reflections on the Name of God

ANNA NOVIKOV: Leo Baeck and Leon Ader: Friendship Reflected in Correspondence

 

III. POETRY AND THEATRE

KLAUS HÖDL: Der kleine Kohn on the Jewish Stage: A Performative Strategy to Fight Antisemitism in Vienna around 1900

LILACH NETHANEL: Poetics of Distance: Zalman Shneour in Berlin during the First World War and Its Aftermath*

ARI LINDEN: Staging German-Jewish Exile in Else Lasker-Schüler’s IchundIch

 

IV. JEWISH LIFE AFTER THE HOLOCAUST

LISA SILVERMAN: Art of Loss: Madame d’Ora, Photography, and the Restitution of Haus Doranna

JANNIS PANAGIOTIDIS: A Policy for the Future: German-Jewish Remigrants, their Children, and the Politics of Israeli Nation-Building

DAVID SHNEER: Yiddish Music and East German Antifascism: Lin Jaldati, Post-Holocaust Jewish Culture, and the Cold War

 

V. MEMOIR

ATINA GROSSMAN: Rabbi Steven Schwarzschild’s Reports from Berlin, 1948–1950

MAIMON SCHWARZSCHILD: A Note on Steven Schwarzschild and the Letters from Berlin

RABBI STEVEN S. SCHWARZSCHILD: Report on Berlin for World Union Conference in London, July 14th – 19th, 1949

RABBI STEVEN S. SCHWARZSCHILD: Mixed Marriages and Conversion in Post-War Germany

RABBI STEVEN S. SCHWARZSCHILD: On the Jewish Black-Market in Germany, April 1950

RABBI STEVEN S. SCHWARZSCHILD: Jews in Communist Germany, Aug. 1950

HEINRICH NUHN AND JUDITH N. LEVI: “Like Hunted Animals”. The November 1938 Pogroms in Rotenburg an der Fulda: Henny Rothschild’s Letter from 18 October 1939

 

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