Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe: Shared and Comparative Histories

by Tobias Grill (Editor)

Overview

For many centuries Jews and Germans were economically and culturally of significant importance in East-Central and Eastern Europe. Since both groups had a very similar background of origin (Central Europe) and spoke languages which are related to each other (German/Yiddish), the question arises to what extent Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe share common historical developments and experiences. This volume aims to explore not only entanglements and interdependences of Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe from the late middle ages to the 20th century, but also comparative aspects of these two communities. Moreover, the perception of Jews as Germans in this region is also discussed in detail.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110489774
Publisher:	De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Publication date:	09/24/2018
Series:	New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History , #8
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	229,222
File size:	5 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Tobias Grill, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Settling down in Eastern Europe Shaul Stampfer 1

Images and Narratives: Germans and Jews in the "Annales seu Cronicae incliti Regni Poloniae" of Jan Dlugosz Jürgen Heyde 21

Solomon Dubno, His Eastern European Scholarship, and the German Haskalah Zuzanna Krzemien 46

From Johann Pezzl to Joseph Perl: Galician Haskalah and the Austrian Enlightenment Rachel Manekin 61

The Figure of the Daytsh in Yiddish Literature Marie Schumacher-Brunhes 72

Dos Iz eyne vahre geshikhte … On the Germanization of Eastern Yiddish in the Nineteenth Century Steffen Krogh 88

Codified Traditions? YIVO's filologishe sektsye in Vilna and Its Relationship to German Academia Martina Niedhammer 115

"Pioneers of Germanness in the East"? Jewish-German, German, and Slavic Perceptions of East European Jewry during the First World War Tobias Grill 125

In the Defense of Germandom in the East: Jews and the Verein für das Deutschtum im Ausland, 1914 to 1935 Philipp Nielsen 160

An Ambivalent Relationship: The Yugoslav Zionists and Their Perception of "Germanness," Germany, and the German Jews at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Marija Vulesica 177

Transformations in the Relationship between Jews and Germans in the Bukovina 1910-1940 Mariana Hausleitner 199

The Historicity of the Witness: The Polish Relationship to Jews and Germans in the Polish Memory Discourse of the Holocaust Hannah Maischein 215

Aliens in the Lands of the Piasts: The Polonization of Lower Silesia and Its Jewish Community in the Years 1945-1950 Kamil Kijek 234

References 257

Index 293