German–Jewish Studies : : Next Generations /

German–Jewish Studies : : Next Generations / / ed. by Kerry Wallach, Aya Elyada.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
MitwirkendeR:
Block, Nick,
Elyada, Aya,
Fischer, Stefanie,
Frühauf, Tina,
Handelman, Matthew,
Lustig, Jason,
Mahrer, Stefanie,
Mecklenburg, Frank,
Meyer, Michael A.,
Shanes, Joshua,
Thulin, Mirjam,
Twitchell, Corey L.,
Vogt, Stefan,
Wallach, Kerry,
Westheimer, Gerald,
HerausgeberIn:
Elyada, Aya,
Wallach, Kerry,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (378 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. German-Jewish Studies for the Twenty-First Century
  • Part I From the Early Modern Period to the Nineteenth Century: Families, Texts, and Religious Identities
  • CHAPTER 1 Le-Dor va-Dor or Discontinuities? Family Networks and the Transnational Turn in (German-)Jewish Studies
  • CHAPTER 2 Old Yiddish Texts in German-Jewish Culture: Diachronic Translation and the (Re)turn to the Past
  • CHAPTER 3 Orthodoxy as a German-Jewish Legacy
  • Part II Nation, Belonging, and Communities in the Early Twentieth Century
  • CHAPTER 4 Contested Contextualizations: Relating German-Jewish History to the History of Colonialism
  • CHAPTER 5 The Place of Yiddish in German-Jewish Studies
  • CHAPTER 6 Metaphysik der Gottferne: Negativity, Intellectual Communities, and German-Jewish Studies
  • Part III Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in the 1930s and Beyond
  • CHAPTER 7 Art without Borders: Artist Rahel Szalit-Marcus and Jewish Visual Culture
  • CHAPTER 8 Woman, Scientist, and Jew The Forced Migration of Berta Ottenstein
  • CHAPTER 9 A Global Network and Diaspora of German-Jewish Historians and Archives: Reappraising the Enduring Legacy of German Jewry
  • 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, 1945–49
  • CHAPTER 11 German-Jewish Fiction on the Holocaust: The Ethics of Narrative Causality in Edgar Hilsenrath’s Disfigured Narration
  • CHAPTER 12 (Un-)Jewish Musical Spaces in Munich: Past and Present
  • Epilogue: The Dynamic Relationship of “German” and “Jewish”
  • Index

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