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German Rabbis in British Exile
The rich history of the German rabbinate came to an abrupt halt with the November Pogrom of 1938. The need to leave Germany became clear and many rabbis made use of the visas they had been offered. Their resettlement in Britain was hampered by additional obstacles such as internment, deportation, enlistment in the Pioneer Corps. But rabbis still attempted to support their fellow refugees with spiritual and pastoral care. The refugee rabbis replanted the seed of the once proud German Judaism into British soil. New synagogues were founded and institutions of Jewish learning sprung up, like rabbinic training and the continuation of “Wissenschaft des Judentums.” The arrival of Leo Baeck professionalized these efforts and resulted in the foundation of the Leo Baeck College in London. Refugee rabbis now settled and obtained pulpits in the many newly founded synagogues. Their arrival in Britain was the catalyst for much change in British Judaism, an influence that can still be felt today.
Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories
Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories focusses on exiles and forced migrants in British colonies and dominions in Africa or Asia and in Commonwealth countries. The contributions deal with aspects such as legal status and internment, rescue and relief, identity and belonging, the Central European encounter with the colonial and post-colonial world, memories and generations or knowledge transfers and cultural representations in writing, painting, architecture, music and filmmaking. The volume covers refugee destinations and the situation on arrival, reorientation–and very often further migration after the Second World War–in Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Palestine, Shanghai, Singapore, South Africa and New Zealand. Contributors are: Rony Alfandary, Gerrit-Jan Berendse, Albrecht Dümling, Patrick Farges, Brigitte Mayr, Michael Omasta, Jyoti Sabharwal, Sarah Schwab, Ursula Seeber, Andrea Strutz, Monica Tempian, Jutta Vinzent, Paul Weindling, and Veronika Zwerger.
The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate
After the Nazi seizure of power on January 30, 1933, over 250 German rabbis, rabbinical scholars, and students for the rabbinate fled to the United States. The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate follows their lives and careers over decades in America. Although culturally uprooted, the group's professional lives and intellectual leadership, particularly those of the younger members of this group, left a considerable mark intellectually, socially, and theologically on American Judaism and on American Jewish congregational and organizational life in the postwar world. Meticulously researched and representing the only systematic analysis of prosopographical data in a digital humanities database, The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate reveals the trials of those who had lost so much and celebrates the legacy they made for themselves in America.
Where From and Where To
What impact did the rise of Nazi dictatorship and mandatory anti-Semitism have on a Jewish child and young girl in Germany? How did her family live a Jewish life in Germany? How did she reach England and, during World War II, attend a London school evacuated to the provinces and a university department evacuated to a coastal town? In Where From and Where To, author Elizabeth Petuchowski narrates her story and answers these questions set against a background of contemporaneous events. She talks about her post-war work in London’s Fleet Street for a publisher of trade journals, her marriage to a Berlin-born rabbinic student with whom she came to America, how she coped with culture shock and got used to living in America. Petuchowski recalls colorful characters; gatherings with students and with many others, well-known and not well-known; her own studies in Cincinnati, Ohio; and seeing England and Germany again years later. Where From and Where To shares a story of a most varied and fortunate life during times of momentous world happenings.
Agony in the Pulpit
Many scholars have focused on contemporary sources pertaining to the Nazi persecution and mass murder of Jews between 1933 and 1945--citing dated documents, newspapers, diaries, and letters--but the sermons delivered by rabbis describing and protesting against the ever-growing oppression of European Jews have been largely neglected. Agony in the Pulpit is a response to this neglect, and to the accusations made by respected figures that Jewish leaders remained silent in the wake of catastrophe. The passages from sermons reproduced in this volume--delivered by 135 rabbis in fifteen countries, mainly from the United States and England--provide important evidence of how these rabbis communicated...
Food in Wartime Britain
Based on deep analysis of Mass Observation wartime diaries, Food in Wartime Britain explores the food experience of the British middle classes in their own words throughout the course of the Second World War. It reveals that, while the food practices of the population were modified by rationing and food scarcity, social class and personal circumstances were key dimensions of the wartime food experience that demand to be taken into account in the historical narrative of the Home Front.
Jüdische Migration und Mobilität
Es gibt eine ebenso verbreitete wie zu kritisierende Tradition, Migration stets als Problem zu betrachten – für die 'abgebenden' wie für die 'aufnehmenden' Gesellschaften, wie es abstrakt heißt. Eine solche Perspektive will vor allem den Blick auf die konkret gemachten Erfahrungen von Aus- und Einwanderung sowie auf Räume und Zeiten 'dazwischen' versperren. Dabei ist Migration auch kulturelle Praxis, Ergebnis zielgerichteten (wenn auch oft verzweifelten) Handelns. Persönliche Dokumente der Migrationserfahrung – Briefe, Tagebücher, Fotografien, Zeichnungen, Memoiren – zeugen von grundlegenden Themen des menschlichen Denkens und Handelns, wie der Bedeutung von Heimat und Heimatverl...
British Religion and the World Wars
Religion did much to shape contemporary British opinion and behaviour during the First and Second World Wars, but it featured rather less in the initial historiography of either conflict. The situation has changed considerably in the past half-century, with a steadily increasing number of academic and popular outputs on the religious aspects of the wars. As key milestones, in connection with the centenary of the First World War and the eightieth anniversary of the Second World War, have occurred or approach, it seems an appropriate time to take bibliographical stock. This volume is the first to offer an in-depth listing of modern literature, in English and other European languages, on Britis...
Grenze als Erfahrung und Diskurs
Die Frage nach der Dynamik von Grenzziehungs- und Grenzverschiebungsprozessen sowie die Wechselbeziehung von Grenzen und Ordnungen werden seit einiger Zeit von der geistes- wie der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung in den Blick genommen: Einerseits konstituieren Grenzen Ordnungen und Sinnstrukturen. Andererseits produzieren Ordnungen Grenzen. Der Umstand, dass Grenzen seit dem Einsetzen der Moderne im 19. Jahrhundert in eine beschleunigte Bewegung geraten sind, schlägt sich zudem in einer Vielzahl aktueller Debatten nieder. Die geschichts- und literaturwissenschaftlichen Beiträge des interdisziplinär ausgerichteten Bandes nehmen aktuelle politische Entwicklungen wie neuere Forschungsbewegungen gleichermaßen auf. Das Phänomen des Exils wird dabei in empirischer wie in methodischer Hinsicht nicht von seinen Zentren, sondern von den Grenzen aus in den Blick genommen.
Geschichtsschreibung in der Emigration
Die Arbeit untersucht Leben, Werk und Wirken von emigrierten Historiker/-innen in Großbritannien in Form einer Kollektivbiographie. 4 große Themenkomplexe werden untersucht: die Emigration und Integration der Historiker/-innen, ihre universitären Karrieren, ihre Forschungsthemen und -methoden sowie ihre Position in der britischen und deutschen Historikerschaft.
