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Intersections between Jewish Studies and Habsburg Studies
In the aftermath of the Shoah and the ostensible triumph of nationalism, it became common in historiography to relegate Jews to the position of the “eternal other” in a series of binaries: Christian/Jewish, Gentile/Jewish, European/Jewish, non-Jewish/Jewish, and so forth. For the longest time, these binaries remained characteristic of Jewish historiography, including in the Central European context. Assuming instead, as the more recent approaches in Habsburg studies do, that pluriculturalism was the basis of common experience in formerly Habsburg Central Europe, and accepting that no single “majority culture” existed, but rather hegemonies were imposed in certain contexts, then the o...
People and Ideas on the Move
During the 1970s the todays Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, BMBWF) supported the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University in California. These foundings were the initial incentives for the worldwide 'spreading' of similar institutions; currently nine Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies exist in seven states on three continents. The funding of the Ministry enables to connect senior with young scholars, to help young PhD students, to participate and to benefit from the scientific connection of expe...
It Could Lead to Dancing
Dances and balls appear throughout world literature as venues for young people to meet, flirt, and form relationships, as any reader of Pride and Prejudice, War and Peace, or Romeo and Juliet can attest. The popularity of social dance transcends class, gender, ethnic, and national boundaries. In the context of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Jewish culture, dance offers crucial insights into debates about emancipation and acculturation. While traditional Jewish law prohibits men and women from dancing together, Jewish mixed-sex dancing was understood as the very sign of modernity––and the ultimate boundary transgression. Writers of modern Jewish literature deployed dance scenes as a ch...
The Central Synagogue of Sofia
The Central Synagogue of Sofia was built between 1905 and 1909 as a highly visible and monumental structure in the social, commercial, and religious center of the Bulgarian capital. Having survived the Second World War, it remains a testament to early 20th century Sofia and its majority Sephardic Jewish community. In its architecture, it reflects the city's search for its own modern, European, and national identity, whilst attesting to the struggle of the Sofia Jewish community headed by its chief rabbi Marcus Ehrenpreis to claim its place within the nation building project. In this first in-depth study of the building, Fani Gargova illuminates the history of the Central Synagogue of Sofia and the motivations behind its construction by positioning its appearance and architecture vis-à-vis Central European Reform synagogues and the emerging Bulgarian national style. By looking at the building through the lens of urban planning, building material and technique, liturgy, as well as musical performance, this book significantly expands the common notion of synagogue architecture.
Jewish Literatures and Cultures in Southeastern Europe
The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy. Southeastern Europe is characterized by a high degree of ethnical, religious and cultural diversity. Jews, whether Sephardim, Ashkenazim or Romaniots – settling there in different periods – experienced divergent life worlds which engendered rich cultural production. Though recent scholarly and popular interest in this heterogeneous region has grown impressively, Jewish cultural production is still an under-researched area. The volume offers an overview of the diverse Jewish experiences in Southeastern Europe from the 19th to the 21st centuries, and the various forms and strategies of their representation in literature, the arts, historiography and philosophy, thus creating a dialogue between Jewish studies, Balkan studies, and current literary and cultural theories.
Framing History in East-Central Europe and Beyond
During the 1970s todays Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung, BMBWF) supported the founding of the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University in California. These foundings were the initial incentives for the worldwide `spreading' of similar institutions; currently, nine Centers for Austrian and Central European Studies exist in seven countries on three continents. The funding of the Ministry enables to connect senior scholars with young scholars, to help young PhD students, to participate in and to benefit from the scientific connection of experienced researchers, and to get in touch with the national scientific community by `sniffing scientific air', as the Austrians like to say. Furthermore, it aims to avoid prejudices, and to spread a better understanding and knowledge about Austria and Central Europe by promoting scientific exchange.
Jewish Literatures in Spanish and Portuguese
This volume offers a thorough introduction to Jewish world literatures in Spanish and Portuguese, which not only addresses the coexistence of cultures, but also the functions of a literary and linguistic space of negotiation in this context. From the Middle Ages to present day, the compendium explores the main Jewish chapters within Spanish- and Portuguese-language world literature, whether from Europe, Latin America, or other parts of the world. No comprehensive survey of this area has been undertaken so far. Yet only a broad focus of this kind can show how diasporic Jewish literatures have been (and are ) – while closely tied to their own traditions – deeply intertwined with local and global literary developments; and how the aesthetic praxis they introduced played a decisive, formative role in the history of literature. With this epistemic claim, the volume aims at steering clear of isolationist approaches to Jewish literatures.
Der israelische Dichter Elazar Benyoëtz zwischen Deutsch und Hebräisch
Der 1937 in Österreich geborene Elazar Benyoëtz ist im deutschsprachigen Raum vornehmlich als Erneuerer des deutschen Aphorismus bekannt. Bislang unerforscht ist die Mehrsprachigkeit des zeitgenössischen Schriftstellers geblieben, der als israelischer Dichter in den späten 1950er-Jahren debütierte. Die vorliegende Publikation untersucht erstmals Austausch und Begegnung der beiden Schaffenssprachen des Autors auf biographischer und literarischer Ebene. Durch neue Archivfunde und Erkenntnisse aus seiner Autorenbibliothek in Jerusalem kann Benyoëtz’ Biographie sowie die Rezeptionsgeschichte seines Gesamtwerks erheblich erweitert werden. Sein viel beachtetes deutsches Werk hat sich peu à peu durch experimentelle Übersetzungen aus dem Hebräischen entwickelt und durch vielfache Lektüre in beiden Sprachen zu seiner Form gefunden. Benyoëtz’ mehrsprachige Literatur wird dabei als vielfältiger Samen verstanden, der von der gegenseitigen Befruchtung seiner Sprachen profitiert und beim Lesen seine Blüten hervorbringt.
Sephardim and Ashkenazim
Sephardic and Ashkenazic Judaism have long been studied separately. Yet, scholars are becoming ever more aware of the need to merge them into a single field of Jewish Studies. This volume opens new perspectives and bridges traditional gaps. The authors are not simply contributing to their respective fields of Sephardic or Ashkenazic Studies. Rather, they all include both Sephardic and Ashkenazic perspectives as they reflect on different aspects of encounters and reconsider traditional narratives. Subjects range from medieval and early modern Sephardic and Ashkenazic constructions of identities, influences, and entanglements in the fields of religious art, halakhah, kabbalah, messianism, and charity to modern Ashkenazic Sephardism and Sephardic admiration for Ashkenazic culture. For reasons of coherency, the contributions all focus on European contexts between the fourteenth and the nineteenth centuries.
Die Grabstätten meiner Väter
Die jüdischen Friedhöfe in Wien zählen zu den letzten noch erhaltenen kulturtopographischen Zeugnissen der bedeutenden, über achthundertjährigen jüdischen Geschichte und Gegenwart der Stadt. Diese urbanen Räume sind materielle Archive der jüdischen Geschichte, die über 100.000 erhaltenen Grabmäler einzigartige Artefakte jüdischen Lebens in der Stadt darstellen. Mit ihren Inschriften konstituieren sie historische Quellen von enormen Wert. Ihr wechselhafter Stellenwert in gesellschaftspolitischen Diskursen und ihre zeitweise Zerstörungen vermitteln stets einen Einblick in zeitgenössische Verständnisse von Kultur, Gemeinschaft und Zugehörigkeit in der Stadt Wien und zu den verschiedenen, sich wandelnden Konzepten von Österreich über die Jahrhunderte. Zum ersten Mal präsentiert Tim Corbett eine umfassende Analyse des Werdegangs der Wiener jüdischen Sepulkralkultur vom Mittelalter bis zum heutigen Tag, die zugleich ein neues Licht auf die jüdische Geschichte der Stadt wirft.
