E-raamat: German-Jewish Experience: Contested Interpretations and Conflicting Perceptions [De Gruyter e-raamatud]

"This volume includes both historical treatments of differing German-Jewish understandings of their experience - their relations to their Judaism, general culture and to other Jews - and contemporary reflections and competing interpretations as to how tounderstand the overall experience of German Jewry"--

Drawn partly from the Robert Liberles International Summer Research Workshop of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, held in July 2013, the 16 essays in this volume analyze the German-Jewish experience. Scholars from Israel, Germany, and the US discuss Jews as the educators of humanity, interpretations of Judaism, German classicism and Judaism, cosmopolitan Jews and Jewish nomads, Zionist discourses on the term “decay” in Germany between 1890 and 1933, cultural engagement through popular entertainment and mass media, and Aby Arburg and Weimar Jewish culture. Others explore Karl Grune's film The Street, Jewish liberalism in the Weimar Republic, how postwar Germany became a key site for the study of Jewish history, non-Jewish perspectives on German-Jewish history, Rabbi Samuel Raphael Hirsch, Pauline Wengeroff's cultural history of the Jews of Russia, the anti-Nazi plays of the Habimah theatre company during the 1930s, and German-Hebrew studies. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

This volume includes both historical treatments of differing German-Jewish understandings of their experience – their relations to their Judaism, general culture and to other Jews – and contemporary reflections and competing interpretations as to how to understand the overall experience of German Jewry.