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Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany
Seventy-five years after the Holocaust, 100,000 Jews live in Germany. Their community is diverse and vibrant, and their mere presence in Germany is symbolically important. In Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany, scholars of German-Jewish history, literature, film, television, and sociology illuminate important aspects of Jewish life in Germany from 1949 to the present day. In West Germany, the development of representative bodies and research institutions reflected a desire to set down roots, despite criticism from Jewish leaders in Israel and the Diaspora. In communist East Germany, some leftist Jewish intellectuals played a prominent role in society, and their experience reflected the regime’s fraught relationship with Jewry. Since 1990, the growth of the Jewish community through immigration from the former Soviet Union and Israel have both brought heightened visibility in society and challenged preexisting notions of Jewish identity in the former “land of the perpetrators.”
Empire of Rags and Bones
Empire of Rags and Bones offers a fresh perspective on the history of the Third Reich and the Nazi genocide of the Jews. Historicizing the much-championed ideal of zero waste, this book explains the connections between Nazi resource-thinking, imperial expansion, and racial purging.
Don't Need No Thought Control
The fall of the Berlin Wall is typically understood as the culmination of political-economic trends that fatally weakened the East German state. Meanwhile, comparatively little attention has been paid to the cultural dimension of these dramatic events, particularly the role played by Western mass media and consumer culture. With a focus on the 1970s and 1980s, Don’t Need No Thought Control explores the dynamic interplay of popular unrest, intensifying economic crises, and cultural policies under Erich Honecker. It shows how the widespread influence of (and public demands for) Western cultural products forced GDR leaders into a series of grudging accommodations that undermined state power to a hitherto underappreciated extent.
Navigating Socialist Encounters
This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African influences on East Germany (and vice versa), the volume sheds light on personal and institutional agency, cultural cross-fertilization, migration, development, and solidarity.
Schwarzhörer, Schwarzseher und heimliche Leser
Über die spannungsreiche Beziehung zwischen staatlicher Kontrolle des westlichen Medienkonsums in der DDR und dessen alltäglicher Nutzung. Die DDR konnte sich nur im geringen Maße gegenüber den westlichen Medien abschotten. Auf diese Weise entstand hier eine komplexe Mediengesellschaft, die Radio und Fernsehen, aber auch Publikationen aus zwei Systemen konsumierte und damit alltäglich die SED-Diktatur herausforderte. Franziska Kuschel untersucht zum einen die Strategien des Staates, den Konsum westlicher Medien zu verhindern oder wenigstens zu kontrollieren und einzudämmen, die vor allem in den 1950er und 60er-Jahren die Kriminalisierung der sogenannten »geistigen Grenzgänger" einsch...
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism: Volume 2, Nationalism's Fields of Interaction
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. In volume II, leading scholars in their fields explore the dynamics of nationhood and nationalism's interactions with a wide variety of cultural practices and social institutions – in addition to the phenomenon's crucial political dimensions. The relationships between imperialism and nationhood/nationalism and between major world religions and ethno-national identities are among the key themes explained and explored. The wide range of case studies from around the world brings a truly global, comparative perspective to a field whose study was long constrained by Eurocentric assumptions.
Law Et Grace - Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach, and the Promise of Salvation
For almost thirty years the Pitts Theology Library has worked to build America?s finest German Reformation Collection, and this year it joins hands with four museums from the land of Luther in the exhibit,?Law and Grace: Martin Luther, Lucas Cranach, and the Promise of Salvation.? Building on the famous Cranach motif?Law and Grace,? which captured the essence of Luther?s message, this exhibit explores Luther?s call to repentance and links it to the lives and legacies of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King Jr. Such an exhibit that bridges centuries and continents provides a fitting prelude to the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Luther?s Ninety-Five Theses in 2017.00Exhibition: Pitts Theology Library, Emory University, Atlanta, USA (11.10.2016-16.01.2017).
Transnational Imaginations of Socialism
Town twinning refers to the postwar phenomenon of administrative exchange between analogous municipalities. Cold War-related research has mostly interpreted it as an instrument to pursue European integration, or to solidify détente "from below". However, municipalities were not only administrative, neutral actors, but also bearers of political content. This is particularly visible in the case of Italian towns located in the Western bloc, guided by socialist-oriented administrations, and their "twin" counterparts in the German Democratic Republic. This volume explores the connections initiated by such towns in the 1960s-1970s, focusing on socialist-specific conceptions which fueled the polic...
A History Shared and Divided
By and large, the histories of East and West Germany have been studied in relative isolation. And yet, for all their differences, the historical trajectories of both nations were interrelated in complex ways, shaped by economic crises, social and cultural changes, protest movements, and other phenomena so diffuse that they could hardly be contained by the Iron Curtain. Accordingly, A History Shared and Divided offers a collective portrait of the two Germanies that is both broad and deep. It brings together comprehensive thematic surveys by specialists in social history, media, education, the environment, and similar topics to assemble a monumental account of both nations from the crises of the 1970s to—and beyond—the reunification era.
Aus einem Land vor unserer Zeit
Fünfundzwanzig aktuelle, von der Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur geförderte Forschungsprojekte werden von jungen Wissenschaftlern in kurzen, anschaulichen Aufsätzen vorgestellt.
