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Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History
"The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem."
Die Juden und die jüdischen Gemeinden Preussens in amtlichen Enquêten des Vormärz
Das preußische Innen- und Kultusministerium veranlasste zwischen 1842 und 1845 zwei große Erhebungen, die einen umfassenden Überblick über die soziale und gesellschaftliche Stellung der Juden in ihren jeweiligen Regierungsbezirken vermitteln sollten. Diese Quellenedition enthält die vollständigen Texte dieser einzigartigen Erhebungen. Hier werden fast 4.000 preußische Orte mit ihrer jüdischen Bevölkerung genannt, sämtliche Synagogen, Schulen und anderer Besitz der jüdischen Gemeinden aufgezählt sowie die gesetzlichen Bestimmungen für jede Region akribisch verzeichnet. Gleichzeitig sind die Erhebungsberichte auch eine umfassende Darstellung des Verhältnisses zwischen jüdischer und christlicher Bevölkerung sowie der Motive, von denen sich die preußischen Regierungsbeamten bei der Behandlung der Angelegenheiten der Juden leiten ließen. Register der Personennamen und Orte erleichtern den Zugang zu der Fülle der enthaltenen Informationen.
Building a Public Judaism
Nineteenth-century Europe saw an unprecedented rise in the number of synagogues. Building a Public Judaism considers what their architecture and the circumstances surrounding their construction reveal about the social progress of modern European Jews. Looking at synagogues in four important centers of Jewish life—London, Amsterdam, Paris, and Berlin—Saskia Coenen Snyder argues that the process of claiming a Jewish space in European cities was a marker of acculturation but not of full acceptance. Whether modest or spectacular, these new edifices most often revealed the limits of European Jewish integration. Debates over building initiatives provide Coenen Snyder with a vehicle for gauging...
Transcending Dystopia
"Transcending Dystopia features pioneering research on the role music played in its various connections to and contexts of Jewish communal life and cultural activity in Germany from 1945 to 1989. As the first history of the Jewish communities' musical practices during the postwar and Cold War eras, it tells the story of how the traumatic experience of the Holocaust led to transitions and transformations, and the significance of music in these processes. As such, it relies on music to draw together three areas of inquiry: the Jewish community, the postwar Germanys and their politics after the Holocaust (occupied Germany, the Federal Republic, the Democratic Republic, and divided Berlin), and ...
The Population History of German Jewry 1815–1939
The late Steven Lowenstein was a brilliant social historian who, after retiring from his academic position at the University of Judaism, toiled for years—and up to his final days—to complete this monumental book, which is the definitive demographic history of German Jewry. Lowenstein took the research of Hebrew University demographer Professor Osiel Oscar Schmetz and brought it to life in the daily lived experiences of German Jews. The book is organized chronologically from Napoleon to German Unification (1815-1871), Imperial Germany and then the post- World War I era through the Nazi period. Later chapters are regional and topical studies. Lowenstein’s calling as a social historian required him to examines “every leaf on every tree in the forest;” but he never lost sight of the trees and the forest – larger context. We know the ending of the story of German Jewry. Lowenstein’s great achievement is to document the extraordinary demographic resources that bespoke a vibrant German Jewish culture—and made that ending especially tragic.
The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory
Nearly one hundred thousand German Jews fought in World War I, and some twelve thousand of these soldiers lost their lives in battle. This book focuses on the multifaceted ways in which these soldiers have been remembered, as well as forgotten, from 1914 to the late 1970s. By examining Germany's complex and continually evolving memory culture, Tim Grady opens up a new approach to the study of German and German-Jewish history. In doing so, he draws out a narrative of entangled and overlapping relations between Jews and non-Jews, a story that extends past the Holocaust and into the Cold War.
