German-Jewish Studies: Next Generations

by Kerry Wallach (Editor), Aya Elyada (Editor)

Overview

As a field, German-Jewish Studies emphasizes the dangers of nationalism, monoculturalism, and ethnocentrism, while making room for multilingual and transnational perspectives with questions surrounding migration, refugees, exile, and precarity. Focussing on the relevance and utility of the field for the twenty-first century, German-Jewish Studies explores why studying and applying German-Jewish history and culture must evolve and be given further attention today. The volume brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to reconsider the history of antisemitism—as well as intersections of antisemitism with racism and colonialism—and how connections to German Jews shed light on the continuities, ruptures, anxieties, and possible futures of German-speaking Jews and their legacies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800736788
Publisher:	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/14/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	378
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Kerry Wallach is Associate Professor of German Studies and an affiliate of the Jewish Studies Program at Gettysburg College. She is the author of Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany (University of Michigan Press, 2017) and numerous articles on German-Jewish literature, history, film, visual and consumer culture, and gender and sexuality. She serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin and the editorial board of the book series German Jewish Cultures (Indiana University Press, supported by the Leo Baeck Institute London).

Aya Elyada is Senior Lecturer of German and German-Jewish history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 2017 she serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem and the editorial board of its journal Chidushim – Studies in the History of German and Central European Jewry. Her book, A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish: Christians and the Jewish Language in Early Modern Germany, was published in 2012 by Stanford University Press

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Foreword
Frank Mecklenburg

Preface
Gerald Westheimer

Acknowledgments

Introduction: German-Jewish Studies for the Twenty-First Century
Kerry Wallach and Aya Elyada

Part I: From the Early Modern Period to the 19th Century: Families, Texts, and Religious Identities


Chapter 1. Le-Dor va-Dor or Discontinuities? Family Networks and the Transnational Turn in (German) Jewish Studies

Mirjam Thulin

Chapter 2. Old Yiddish Texts in German-Jewish Culture: Diachronic Translation and the (Re)turn to the Past

Aya Elyada


Chapter 3. Orthodoxy as a German-Jewish Legacy
Joshua Shanes

Part II: Nation, Belonging, and Communities in the Early 20th Century

Chapter 4. Contested Contextualizations: Relating German-Jewish History to the History of Colonialism

Stefan Vogt

Chapter 5. The Place of Yiddish in German-Jewish Studies

Nick Block


Chapter 6. Metaphysik der Gottferne: Negativity, Intellectual Communities, and German-Jewish Studies

Matthew Handelman

Part III: Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in the 1930s and Beyond

Chapter 7. Art without Borders: Artist Rahel Szalit-Marcus and Jewish Visual Culture

Kerry Wallach


Chapter 8. Woman, Scientist, and Jew: The Forced Migration of Berta Ottenstein

Stefanie Mahrer
This chapter is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Chapter 9. A Global Network and Diaspora of German-Jewish Historians and Archives: Reappraising the Enduring Legacy of German Jewry

Jason Lustig


Part IV: After 1945: Memory, Coming to Terms with the Past, Place, and Displacement

Chapter 10. Jewish Mourning in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Tending Individual Graves in Occupied Germany, 1945–1949

Stefanie Fischer

Chapter 11. German-Jewish Fiction on the Holocaust: The Ethics of Narrative Causality in Edgar Hilsenrath’s Disfigured Narration

Corey L. Twitchell

Chapter 12. (Un-)Jewish Musical Spaces in Munich – Past and Present

Tina Frühauf

Epilogue: The Dynamic Relationship of “German” and “Jewish”
Michael A. Meyer

Index

Editorial Reviews

“German-Jewish Studies makes a valuable contribution to the field. The chapters are of a high standard across the board and the volume will help students and academics get a good sense of how things in the field of German-Jewish studies stand: how healthy it is, where its strengths lie, and where gaps have merged that new research and perspectives could fill” • Christian Bailey, Purchase College

“It is an original and impressive interdisciplinary collection of essays that are a window to the future in German-Jewish Studies” • Frank R. Nicosia, University of Vermont

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