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East European Jews in Switzerland
During the era of Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe (from the 1880s until the First World War), Switzerland played an important role in absorbing immigrants. Though located at the periphery of the main migration routes, the federal state with its liberal policies on foreigners became a key destination for students, revolutionaries, and travelers. The micro-studies and more general papers of this volume approach the topic in its transnational, local, linguistic, gendered, and ideological dimensions and from various disciplinary angles. They interweave and facilitate a novel take on the transitory spatial history and the Lebenswelt of East European Jews in Switzerland. Topics of this volume range – among others – from the location of Switzerland on the map of East European Jewish politics (Bundism, Socialism, Yiddishism, Zionism), conflicting performative cultures of Jewish and Russian revolutionaries, the Swiss Lehr- and Wanderjahre of the Jewish public intellectual Meir Wiener, the impact of Geneva on the Zionist Hebrew writer Ben Ami, the Russian-Jewish students’ colonies in Berne and Zurich and questions of individuals' integration and acculturation.
Yiddish Revolutionaries in Migration
This ground-breaking history of the General Jewish Labour Bund investigates how the organisation transformed itself from a revolutionary protagonist in early twentieth-century Russia to a socialist institution of secular Jewish life and yidishkayt for Jews in North and South America.
Possessed Voices
Analyzes audio recordings of interwar Hebrew plays, providing a new model for the use of sound in theater studies. Possessed Voices tells the intriguing story of a largely unknown collection of audio recordings, which preserve performances of modernist interwar Hebrew plays. Ruthie Abeliovich focuses on four recordings: a 1931 recording of The Eternal Jew (1919/1923), a 1965 recording of The Dybbuk (1922), a 1961 radio play of The Golem (1925), and a 1952 radio play of Yaakov and Rachel (1928). Abeliovich traces the spoken language of modernist Hebrew theater as grounded in multiple modalities of expressive practices, including spoken Hebrew, Jewish liturgical sensibilities supplemented by Y...
In the Cause of Humanity
A major new history of the emergence of the theory and practice of humanitarian intervention during the nineteenth century.
Dynasty Divided
Dynasty Divided uses the story of a prominent Kievan family of journalists, scholars, and politicians to analyze the emergence of rivaling nationalisms in nineteenth-century Ukraine, the most pivotal borderland of the Russian Empire. The Shul'gins identified as Russians and defended the tsarist autocracy; the Shul'hyns identified as Ukrainians and supported peasant-oriented socialism. Fabian Baumann shows how these men and women consciously chose a political position and only then began their self-fashioning as members of a national community, defying the notion of nationalism as a direct consequence of ethnicity. Baumann asks what made individuals into determined nationalists in the first p...
Reassessing the Transnational Turn
This edited volume reassesses the ongoing transnational turn in anarchist and syndicalist studies, a field where the interest in cross-border connections has generated much innovative literature in the last decade. It presents and extends up-to-date research into several dynamic historiographic fields, and especially the history of the anarchist and syndicalist movements and the notions of transnational militancy and informal political networks. Whilst restating the relevance of transnational approaches, especially in connection with the concepts of personal networks and mediators, the book underlines the importance of other scales of analysis in capturing the complexities of anarchist milit...
Parabole : Bible et pastorale
Parfois les mots nous manquent pour dire les choses trop grandes, trop belles, trop invisibles, trop divines. Dans nos prédications, nos catéchèses ou notre pastorale, les paroles "justes" nous font souvent défaut. Nous sommes alors invités à écouter et imiter Jésus Christ. Avec des histoires simples appelées paraboles, ancrées dans l'expérience du quotidien, mais travaillées de l'intérieur par un grain de folie ou d'extravagance, il nous fait approcher les plus profonds mystères de la foi. Lui, le meilleur pédagogue, ne peine jamais à expliquer le Royaume des cieux, la miséricorde ou la justice, et ainsi il transforme l'horizon de vie de ses interlocuteurs. Non seulement il...
Gegen den Krieg
1912 fand in Basel der 'Ausserordentliche Internationale Sozialistenkongress' oder auch 'Friedenskongress der Zweiten Internationale' statt. Höhepunkte bildeten ein riesiger Friedensmarsch durch die Stadt, Ansprachen bedeutender Sozialisten im Basler Münster sowie die Verabschiedung eines Friedensmanifestes. Die Forderungen des Kongresses sind bis heute aktuell geblieben. Anlässlich seines 100. Jubiläums widmet sich dieses Buch der Geschichte und Bedeutung des Kongresses, thematisiert den Zusammenhang mit der damaligen Friedensbewegung sowie das Scheitern der Bemühungen, den Ersten Weltkrieg zu verhindern. Neben historischen Bezügen stehen heutige Forschungen zu Kriegsursachen sowie Konzeptionen zur Kriegsverhinderung im Mittelpunkt.
Quotas
In 1920, the Hungarian parliament introduced a Jewish quota for university admissions, making Hungary the first country in Europe to pass antisemitic legislation following World War I. Quotas explores the ideologies and practices of quota regimes and the ways quotas have been justified, implemented, challenged, and remembered from the late nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth century. In particular, the volume focuses on Central and Eastern Europe, with chapters covering the origins of quotas, the moral, legal, and political arguments developed by their supporters and opponents, and the social and personal impact of these attempts to limit access to higher education.
When Jews Argue
This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the Beit Midrash) and the academy: Can these two institutions overcome their vast differences? Should they attempt to do so? If not, what could two methods of study seen as diametrically opposed possibly learn from one another? How might they help each other reconceive their interrelationship, themselves, and the broader study of Jews and Judaism? This book begins with three distinct approaches to these challenges. The chapters then follow the approaches through an interdisciplinary series of pioneering case studies that reassess a range of topics including religion and pluralism in Jewish education;...
