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Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2016

Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin, David Rechter, and Daniel Wildmann

 

I. GERMAN JEWS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

MENASHE ANZI AND ANJA SIEGEMUND: German Jews in the Middle East: New Perspectives

OLIVIER BAISEZ: “Greater Palestine” as a German-Zionist Idea before the British Mandate Period

RAKEFET ZALASHIK: The Middle East as a Temporary Haven: Jewish Medical Refugees in Turkey during the Second World War

GUY BRACHA: ‘The Germans Are Coming!’ The Jewish Community of Beirut Facing the Question of Jewish Immigration from Germany

 

II. SURVIVORS: POLITICS AND SEMANTICS OF A CONCEPT

ALINE BOTHE AND MARKUS NESSELRODT: Survivor: Towards a Conceptual History

ADAM Y. STERN: Rosenzweig’s Jesus (God, Corpse, Survivor)

ANDREE MICHAELIS: Surviving as Writer and as Witness, or Why Primo Levi Did Not Want to Be Called a ‘Survivor’

JULIA MENZEL: Between ‘Nothing’ and ‘Something’: Narratives of Survival in H. G. Adler’s Scholarly and Literary Analysis of the Shoah

 

III. GERMAN-JEWISH RELATIONS AT STAKE

SUSAN NASHMAN FRAIMAN: The Expressive Hostility of Moritz Oppenheim

BRIAN K. FELTMAN: Conceptions of Comradeship: Hans H. Pinkus and the Nazification of the Reichsvereinigung ehemaliger Kriegsgefangener*

ERIC GARCIA MCKINLEY: Reclaimed Pasts: Intermarriage and Remembrances of National Socialist Racial Stigmatization by Jewish and non-Jewish Spouses and Mischling Children

AMOS MORRIS-REICH: The ‘First Letters’ of Jacob Wahrman

JOSEPH MALHEREK: Victor Gruen’s Retail Therapy: Exiled Jewish Communities and the Invention of the American Shopping Mall as a Postwar Ideal

 

IV. MEMOIR

RABBI STEVEN S. SCHWARZSCHILD: Quarterly report to the World Union for Progressive Judaism 29thDecember 1948

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

RABBI STEVEN S. SCHWARZSCHILD: Report for The Month of January for The World Union for Progressive Judaism, 4th February 1949

RABBI STEVEN S. SCHWARZSCHILD: Report by Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild for the World Union for Progressive Judaism 24th October 1949

 

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