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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...
Foreign Entanglements: Transnational American Jewish Studies
The field of American Jewish studies has recently trained its focus on the transnational dimensions of its subject, reflecting in more sustained ways than before about the theories and methods of this approach. Yet, much of the insight to be gained from seeing American Jewry as constitutively entangled in many ways with other Jewries has not yet been realized. Transnational American Jewish studies are still in their infancy. This issue of PaRDeS presents current research on the multiple entanglements of American with Central European, especially German-speaking Jewries in the 19th and 20th centuries. The articles reflect the wide range of topics that can benefit from a transnational understanding of the American Jewish experience as shaped by its foreign entanglements.
“They Took to the Sea”
The sea and maritime spaces have long been neglected in the field of Jewish studies despite their relevance in the context of Jewish religious texts and historical narratives. The images of Noah’s arche, king Salomon’s maritime activities or the miracle of the parting of the Red Sea immediately come into mind, however, only illustrate a few aspects of Jewish maritime activities. Consequently, the relations of Jews and the sea has to be seen in a much broader spatial and temporal framework in order to understand the overall importance of maritime spaces in Jewish history and culture. Almost sixty years after Samuel Tolkowsky’s pivotal study on maritime Jewish history and culture and the...
Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts /Dubnow Institute Yearbook XVII/2018
The 2018 Yearbook of the Dubnow Institute comprises two focal points: The first offers new approaches to the history of the Jews in the GDR. Historical research has in recent decades focused primarily on the lives of Jewish Communists as well as the relationship between the SED to Jewish citizens of the GDR and to Israel. This volume therefore focuses on questions relating both to the lived realities in the Jewish communities of the GDR and to individual self-conceptions in the tension between Socialism and Jewish heritage in the "workers' and peasants' state". The second focal point reports on the on-site cataloging work conducted in archives and private collections in Israel. Various aspec...
Memory, Migration and Travel
Migration and forcible displacement are growing and impactful dynamics of the current global age. These processes generate mobility flows, travel patterns and touristic behaviour driven by personal and collective memories. The chapters in this book highlight the importance of travel and tourism for enabling such memories and memory-based identity practices to unfold. This book investigates how diasporic communities, transnational migrants, refugees and the internally displaced recreate home in their host place of residence through material culture, performativity and social relations; and how involuntary tangible and intangible stimuli evoke memories of home. It explores an array of diverse geographical contexts, balancing ethnographic vignettes of contemporary migrant societies with archival research providing historical accounts that reach back more than a century. Memory, Migration and Travel makes an original contribution by linking the emergent field of memory studies to the disciplines of tourism and migration/diaspora studies, and will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of tourism, geography, migration/diaspora studies, anthropology and sociology.
Resettlers and Survivors
Located on the border of present-day Romania and Ukraine, the historical region of Bukovina was the site of widespread displacement and violence as it passed from Romanian to Soviet hands and back again during World War II. This study focuses on two groups of “Bukovinians”—ethnic Germans and German-speaking Jews—as they navigated dramatically changed political and social circumstances in and after 1945. Through comparisons of the narratives and self-conceptions of these groups, Resettlers and Survivors gives a nuanced account of how they dealt with the difficult legacies of World War II, while exploring Bukovina’s significance for them as both a geographical location and a “place of memory.”
Erzählen im Zwischenraum
Insel, Höhle und Wald sind im 12. Jahrhundert Schauplätze ganz besonderer Jenseitserzählungen. Die Protagonisten betreten auf körperliche, nicht-visionäre Weise das Paradies oder purgatoriale Räume, machen außerweltliche, endzeitliche Erfahrungen und kehren unbeschadet in die Welt zurück. ‚Erzählen im Zwischenraum‘ untersucht die narratologischen Explikationen dieses epistemologischen Problems – diachron, diskurshistorisch, kulturwissenschaftlich.
Die Gründung des SOKW
Das Südostdeutsche Kulturwerk (SOKW) wurde Anfang der 1950er-Jahre in München von Kulturschaffenden und Wissenschaftlern errichtet, deren persönliche Wurzeln größtenteils in Südosteuropa liegen. Im Jahr 2021 konnte das IKGS somit an zwei Jahrestage erinnern: an die Gründung seiner Vorgängerinstitution SOKW am 19. März 1951 und die Umwandlung in das bis heute bestehende Institut für deutsche Kultur und Geschichte Südosteuropas (IKGS), 50 Jahre später. Das Heft 1.22 Die Gründung des SOKW präsentiert erste Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojekts, dessen Gegenstand die Gründungsgeschichte des Instituts in den frühen 1950er-Jahren in ihrem zeithistorischen Kontext ist. Es wird nach den beteiligten Protagonisten gefragt, ihren persönlichen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Prägungen, ihren Diskursen und Einflüssen. Besonders aufschlussreich ist ein Einblick in den Briefwechsel zweier wichtiger Protagonisten aus jener Zeit.
Konzepte des Kollektiven
Das Konzept deutscher "Volksgruppen" außerhalb des geschlossenen deutschen Sprachgebiets in Zentral-, Ost- und Südosteuropa führte zu sprachlichen Gruppenbenennungen für diese regionalen Entitäten. Die Autor*innen von Heft 2.20 der "Spiegelungen" gehen zunächst der Analyse digitaler Sprachdaten zur Ermittlung von Begriffsgeschichten nach. Am Beispiel der "Buchenlanddeutschen", der "Bessarabiendeutschen", der "Galiziendeutschen" und der "Karpatendeutschen" werden sodann Konzepte des Kollektiven in Bezug auf die Deutschen in Südosteuropa untersucht. Weitere wissenschaftliche Beiträge befassen sich unter anderem mit oberdeutschen Siedlungen in Transkarpatien und im Banat, mit dem thematischen "Netzwerk Mehrsprachigkeit", dem Wörterbuch der ungarndeutschen Mundarten und mit einem Sonderfall aus dem Kontext der Nachkriegsdeportationen aus Ungarn in die UdSSR.
Conscious History
Thoroughly researched, this study highlights the historical scholarship that is one of the lasting legacies of interwar Polish Jewry and analyses its political and social context. As Jewish citizens struggled to assert their place in a newly independent Poland, a dedicated group of Jewish scholars fascinated by history devoted themselves to creating a sense of Polish Jewish belonging while also fighting for their rights as an ethnic minority. The political climate made it hard for these men and women to pursue an academic career; instead they had to continue their efforts to create and disseminate Polish Jewish history by teaching outside the university and publishing in scholarly and popula...
