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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2016

Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin and others

 

I. German Jews in the Middle East

 

German Jews in the Middle East: New Perspectives by Menashe Anzi and Anja Siegemund
“Greater Palestine” as a German-Zionist Idea before the British Mandate Period by Olivier Baisez
The Middle East as a Temporary Haven: Jewish Medical Refugees in Turkey during the Second World War by Rakefet Zalashik
‘The Germans Are Coming!’ The Jewish Community of Beirut Facing the Question of Jewish Immigration from Germany by Guy Bracha

 

II. Survivors: Politics and semantics of a concept

 

Survivor: Towards a Conceptual History by Alina Bothe and Markus Nesselrodt
Rosenzweig’s Jesus (God, Corpse, Survivor) by Adam Y. Stern
Surviving as Writer and as Witness, or Why Primo Levi Did Not Want to Be Called a ‘Survivor' by Andree Michaelis
Between ‘Nothing’ and ‘Something’: Narratives of Survival in H. G. Adler’s Scholarly and Literary Analysis of the Shoah by Julia Menzel

 

III. German-Jewish relations at stake

 

The Expressive Hostility of Moritz Oppenheim by Susan Nashman Fraiman
Conceptions of Comradeship: Hans H. Pinkus and the Nazification of the Reichsvereinigung ehemaliger Kriegsgefangener* by Brian K. Feltman
Reclaimed Pasts: Intermarriage and Remembrances of National Socialist Racial Stigmatization by Jewish and non-Jewish Spouses and Mischling Children by Eric Garcia McKinley
The ‘First Letters’ of Jacob Wahrman by Amos Morris-Reich
Victor Gruen’s Retail Therapy: Exiled Jewish Communities and the Invention of the American Shopping Mall as a Postwar Ideal by Joseph Malherek

 

IV. Memoir

 

Quarterly report to the World Union for Progressive Judaism 29th December 1948 by Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild
Highly Personal and Confidential Report of The Events Resulting from The Showing of The British Film ‘Oliver Twist’ in Berlin, February 19th – 22nd by Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild
Report for The Month of January for The World Union for Progressive Judaism, 4th February 1949 by Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild
Report by Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild for the World Union for Progressive Judaism 24th October 1949 by Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild

 

V. List of contributors

 

List of Contributors

 

VII. Bibliography

 

I. History
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, memoirs, letters
IX. German-Jewish relations
X. Fiction and poetry (Prosa, Erzählung, Lyrik)

 

VIII. Bibliography index

 

VIII. Bibliography index

 

VI. Index

 

Index to Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2016
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