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Instrument of Memory
How can immortality be a curse? According to the Wandering Jew legend, as Jesus made his way to Calvary, a man refused him rest, cruelly taunting him to hurry to meet his fate. In response, Jesus cursed the man to wander until the Second Coming. Since the medieval period, the legend has inspired hundreds of adaptations by artists and writers. Instrument of Memory: Encounters with the Wandering Jew, the first English-language study of the legend in over fifty years, is also the first to examine the influence of the legend’s medieval and early modern sources over the centuries into the present day. Using the lens of memory studies, the work shows how the Christian tradition of the legend cen...
Traces of a Jewish Artist
Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel Szalit (1888–1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police and then murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she was all but lost to history, and most of her paintings have been destroyed or gone missing. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, this biography recovers Szalit’s life and presents a stunning collection of her art. Szalit was a sought-after artist. Highly regarded by art historians and critics of her day, she made a name for herself with soulful, sometimes humorous illustrations of Jewish and world literature by Sholem Aleichem, Heinrich ...
Passing Illusions
Challenges the notion that Weimar Jews sought to be invisible or indistinguishable from other Germans by "passing" as non-Jews
Meyer
Michael Meyer (ca. 1672-1733) was born in Palatine Germany. He and his wife Anna had five children, one of whom, Johannes Hans Meyer (ca. 1699-1766), emigrated to America, settling in Pennsylvania. Some descendants of other children of Michael and Anna also moved to Pennsylvania, where many descendants still live. Spelling of the surname often varies greatly.
Trautman, Troutman Family, 1598-1998
Chiefly a record of some of the descendants of Michael Trautmann. He was born ca. 1598 in Schriesheim, Germany, to Sebastian Trautmann and Catherina. He married Margaretha Dorn. She died 12 Oct 1654. They were the parents of at least six children. He married Barbara Kern 15 May 1655. She was born ca. 1624, the daughter of Barthel Kern. She died in 1666. They were the parents of five children. He married Anna Margaretha Scheppler 28 Jan 1668. He died 20 Apr 1684. Descendants immigrated to America ca. 1743.
The Philip Brown Family of Tulpehocken Valley
Johan Philip Braun (1697-1767), son of Johann Jost Braun, was born in Udenheim, Hessen, Germany. He immigrated to New York in 1709 with his family. He later settled in Pennsylvania. His wife, Elisabeth Magdalena Losch (1699-1763), was the daughter of John Balthaser Losch and Susanna Phillippina Gerina. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ontario, Iowa, Minnesota, and elsewhere.
Geschichte der Heimat
Die Studie rekonstruiert die Entstehung und die Transformation des Begriffs ‚Heimat‘ vom späten 18. bis zum frühen 20. Jahrhundert. Sie durchläuft dabei unterschiedliche Diskursfelder der Religion, des Rechts, der Pädagogik, der Volkskunde und der Philologie, räumt aber der Literatur für deren Verknüpfung und für die Konstruktion, die Apologese und die Kritik der Heimat eine besondere Stellung ein.
Ahasver, der Ewige Jude
Eine kulturwissenschaftlich fundierte Darstellung des brisanten Themas in Text- und Bilddokumenten von der Frühen Neuzeit bis in die Moderne. Es ist ein im kollektiven Gedächtnis fest verankerter Mythos: das Los des Ahasver, des Ewigen Juden, von dem erzählt wird, dass er dem auf dem Kreuzweg schmachtenden Christus die Rast missgönnt habe und dafür zu ewiger Wanderschaft verdammt worden sei. Die Wurzeln der Überlieferung reichen bis ins Mittelalter zurück, doch erst zu Beginn des 17. Jahrhunderts beginnt der Stoff sein hohes Wirkungspotential zu entfalten. Ahasver wird zu einer plastischen und zugleich mirakulösen Figur, die ihren Siegeszug quer durch Europa antritt. Ein antijudaisti...
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