
I. Austrian, Jewish, German, Czech: Reframing Max Brod and Prague Zionism
Introduction Max Brod in 2014 by Mark H. Gelber
Max Brod and Hans-Joachim Schoeps: Literary Collaborators, Ideological Rivals by Abraham Rubin
On Not Writing Hebrew: Max Brod and the ‘Jewish Poet of the German Tongue’ between Prague and Tel Aviv by Sebastian Schirrmeister
II. Philosophy and Religion
Neglected German-Jewish Visions for a Pluralistic Society: Moritz Lazarus by Mathias Berek
On Nathan Birnbaum’s Messianism and Translating the Jewish Other by Nick Block
“To Become a German and Nothing but a German …”: The Role of Paul de Lagarde in the Conversion of Egyptologist Georg Steindorff by Thomas L. Gertzen
What Is behind God’s Name? Martin Buber’s and Franz Rosenzweig’s Reflections on the Name of God by Andreas Losch
Leo Baeck and Leon Ader: Friendship Reflected in Correspondence by Anna Novikov
III. Poetry and theatre
Der kleine Kohn on the Jewish Stage: A Performative Strategy to Fight Antisemitism in Vienna around 1900 by Klaus Hödl
Poetics of Distance: Zalman Shneour in Berlin during the First World War and Its Aftermath* by Lilach Nethanel
Staging German-Jewish Exile in Else Lasker-Schüler’s IchundIch by Ari Linden
IV. Jewish life after the Holocaust
Art of Loss: Madame d’Ora, Photography, and the Restitution of Haus Doranna by Lisa Silverman
A Policy for the Future: German-Jewish Remigrants, their Children, and the Politics of Israeli Nation-Building by Jannis Panagiotidis
Yiddish Music and East German Antifascism: Lin Jaldati, Post-Holocaust Jewish Culture, and the Cold War by David Shneer
V. Memoir
Rabbi Steven Schwarzschild’s Reports from Berlin, 1948–1950 by Atina Grossmann
A Note on Steven Schwarzschild and the Letters from Berlin by Maimon Schwarzschild
Report on Berlin for World Union Conference in London, July 14th – 19th, 1949 by Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild
Mixed Marriages and Conversion in Post-War Germany by Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild
On the Jewish Black-Market in Germany, April 1950 by Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild
Jews in Communist Germany, Aug. 1950 by Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild
“Like Hunted Animals”. The November 1938 Pogroms in Rotenburg an der Fulda: Henny Rothschild’s Letter from 18 October 1939 by Heinrich Nuhn and Judith N. Levi
VI. List of contributors
List of Contributors
VII. Bibliography
History
Bibliography contents
II. Research and bibliography
III. The Nazi Period
IV. Post-1945
V. Judaism
VI. Zionism and Israel
VII. Participation in cultural and public life
VIII. Autobiographies, memories, letters
IX. German-Jewish relations
X. Fiction and poetry (Prosa, Erzählungen, Lyrik)
VIII. Bibliography index
Bibliography Index
IX. Index
Index to Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2015
PREFACE
Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin and Raphael Gross
Note and acknowledgments
Note and Acknowledgements by Atina Grossmann and Maimon Schwarzschild
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