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“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...
Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture
PaRDeS. Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V., möchte die fruchtbare und facettenreiche Kultur des Judentums sowie seine Berührungspunkte zur Umwelt in den unterschiedlichen Bereichen dokumentieren. Daneben dient die Zeitschrift als Forum zur Positionierung der Fächer Jüdische Studien und Judaistik innerhalb des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses sowie zur Diskussion ihrer historischen und gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung. PaRDeS. Journal of the Association of Jewish Studies e. V. The journal aims at documenting the fruitful and multifarious culture of Judaism as well as its relations to its environment within diverse areas of research. In addition, the journal is meant to promote Jewish Studies within academic discourse and discuss its historic and social responsibility.
Jewish Families and Kinship in the Early Modern and Modern Eras
The Jewish family has been the subject of much admiration and analysis, criticism and myth-making, not just but especially in modern times. As a field of inquiry, its place is at the intersection – or in the shadow – of the great topics in Jewish Studies and its contributing disciplines. Among them are the modernization and privatization of Judaism and Jewish life;integration and distinctiveness of Jews as individuals and as a group;gender roles and education. These and related questions have been the focus of modern Jewish family research, which took shape as a discipline in the 1910s. This issue of PaRDeS traces the origins of academic Jewish family research and takes stock of its deve...
Begegnung auf fremder Erde
Deutschsprachige Literatur jüdischer Autor*innen in Palästina/Israel galt lange als Schwanengesang der ‚deutsch-jüdischen Symbiose‘. Dieses Buch nimmt eine neue Perspektive ein, sieht sie als Teil des „Jewish literary complex“ (Dan Miron) und fragt nach ihrer Beziehung zum hebräischen Literaturbetrieb. Basierend auf umfangreichen Archivrecherchen sucht die Studie drei deutsch-hebräische Konstellationen auf: in der Anthologie, in der Übersetzung und in der variantenreichen Erzählung der Einwanderung. Die untersuchten Texte (u.a. von Max Brod, M. Y. Ben-Gavriêl, Josef Kastein, Baruch Kurzweil und Amos Oz) erweisen sich dabei als kritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem „zionistischen Masternarrativ“ (Gershon Shaked) von der sozialen und kulturellen Erlösung des jüdischen Volkes im Gelobten Land.
Talaat Pasha
The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian Genocide, Talaat Pasha (1874-1921) led the triumvirate that ruled the late Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably the father of modern Turkey. He was also the architect of the Armenian Genocide, which would result in the systematic extermination of more than a million people, and which set the stage for a century that would witness atrocities on a scale never imagined. Here is the first biography in English of the revolutionary figure who not only prepared the way for Ataturk and the founding of the republic in 1923, but who shaped the modern world as well. In this e...
Einstein in Bohemia
"Though Einstein is undoubtedly one of the most important figures in the history of modern science, he was in many respects marginal. Despite being one of the creators of quantum theory, he remained skeptical of it, and his major research program while in Princeton--the quest for a unified field--ultimately failed. In this book, Michael Gordin explores this paradox in Einstein's life by concentrating on a brief and often overlooked interlude: his tenure as professor of physics in Prague, from April of 1911 to the summer of 1912. Though often dismissed by biographers and scholars, it was a crucial year for Einstein both personally and scientifically: his marriage deteriorated, he began thinki...
Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories
This special issue focusses on refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British colonies, dominions and overseas territories. It deals with aspects like internment, identity and cultural representation in not well-known destinations of forced migration like India, New Zealand, Canada or Kenya.
Das Gastspiel
Friedrich Lobe (1889–1958) gehörte zu den wenigen aus Deutschland geflüchteten Theatermachern, die im hebräischen Theater in Palästina Fuß fassen konnten. Nach seiner Einwanderung 1933 für eine erste Inszenierung von Dantons Tod am Tel Aviver Arbeitertheater Ohel engagiert, führte Lobe bis zu seiner Rückkehr nach Europa 1950 bei dreißig Produktionen Regie, veröffentlichte zahlreiche Zeitungsartikel und schrieb nicht zuletzt zwölf eigene dramatische Texte. Auf Grundlage umfangreicher Archivrecherchen untersucht Sebastian Schirrmeister erstmals die besonderen Konstellationen, die sich aus Lobes Emigration nach Palästina ergaben und die sich in seinen Aktivitäten und Texten wider...
Das Kulturerbe deutschsprachiger Juden
The series European-Jewish Studies reflects the international network and competence of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish studies (MMZ). Thanks to the highly interdisciplinary character of the series, which is edited in collaboration with the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, particular emphasis is placed on the way in which history, the humanities and cultural sciences approach the subject, as well as on fundamental intellectual, political and religious questions that inspire Jewish life and thinking today, and have influenced it in the past. The CONTRIBUTIONS publish excellent monographs and anthologies on the entire spectrum of themes from Jewish studies. The series is peer-reviewed.
