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The Economy in Jewish History
Jewish historiography tends to stress the religious, cultural, and political aspects of the past. By contrast the “economy” has been pushed to the margins of the Jewish discourse and scholarship since the end of the Second World War. This volume takes a fresh look at Jews and the economy, arguing that a broader, cultural approach is needed to understand the central importance of the economy. The very dynamics of economy and its ability to function depend on the ability of individuals to interact, and on the shared values and norms that are fostered within ethnic communities. Thus this volume sheds new light on the interrelationship between religion, ethnicity, culture, and the economy, revealing the potential of an “economic turn” in the study of history.
Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories
Refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe in British Overseas Territories focusses on exiles and forced migrants in British colonies and dominions in Africa or Asia and in Commonwealth countries. The contributions deal with aspects such as legal status and internment, rescue and relief, identity and belonging, the Central European encounter with the colonial and post-colonial world, memories and generations or knowledge transfers and cultural representations in writing, painting, architecture, music and filmmaking. The volume covers refugee destinations and the situation on arrival, reorientation–and very often further migration after the Second World War–in Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Palestine, Shanghai, Singapore, South Africa and New Zealand. Contributors are: Rony Alfandary, Gerrit-Jan Berendse, Albrecht Dümling, Patrick Farges, Brigitte Mayr, Michael Omasta, Jyoti Sabharwal, Sarah Schwab, Ursula Seeber, Andrea Strutz, Monica Tempian, Jutta Vinzent, Paul Weindling, and Veronika Zwerger.
On the Word of a Jew
Fourteen essays examining the dynamics of trust and mistrust in Jewish history from biblical times to today. What, if anything, does religion have to do with how reliable we perceive one another to be? When and how did religious difference matter in the past when it came to trusting the word of another? In today’s world, we take for granted that being Jewish should not matter when it comes to acting or engaging in the public realm, but this was not always the case. The essays in this volume look at how and when Jews were recognized as reliable and trustworthy in the areas of jurisprudence, medicine, politics, academia, culture, business, and finance. As they explore issues of trust and mis...
Shadow Economies and Irregular Work in Urban Europe
The origin of this volume is a workshop on 'Shadow economies and non-regular work practices in urban Europe (16th to early 20th centuries)', which took palce at the University of Salzburg in 2006, as well as a session at the International Economy History Congress in Helsinki in the same year.
Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919–1939
Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919–1939, explores the social and economic networks in which this group operated and the informal but durable bonds between Jewish cattle traders and farmers that not even incessant Nazi attacks could break. Stefanie Fischer combines approaches from social history, economic history, and sociology to challenge the longstanding cliché of the shady Jewish cattle dealer. By focusing on trust and social connections rather than analyzing economic trends, Fischer exposes the myriad inconsistencies that riddled the process of expelling the Jews from Germany. Jewish Cattle Traders in the German Countryside, 1919–1939, examines the complexities of relations between Jews and non-Jews who were engaged in economic and social exchange. In the process, Fischer challenges previous understandings of everyday life under Nazi rule and discovers new ways in which Jewish agency acted as a critical force throughout the exclusionary processes that took place in Hitler's Germany.
Microhistories of the Holocaust
How does scale affect our understanding of the Holocaust? In the vastness of its implementation and the sheer amount of death and suffering it produced, the genocide of Europe’s Jews presents special challenges for historians, who have responded with work ranging in scope from the world-historical to the intimate. In particular, recent scholarship has demonstrated a willingness to study the Holocaust at scales as focused as a single neighborhood, family, or perpetrator. This volume brings together an international cast of scholars to reflect on the ongoing microhistorical turn in Holocaust studies, assessing its historiographical pitfalls as well as the distinctive opportunities it affords researchers.
Selbstbehältnisse
Es ist eine der menschlichsten Tätigkeiten, für sich selbst, für den eigenen Körper und die eigene Subjektivität Behältnisse zu schaffen. Diese Behältnisse für das Selbst können ephemer und improvisiert sein, sie können in alltäglichste Gegenstände oder auch in Texte oder Bilder ausgelagert sein. Oder sie können dauerhaft, stabil und wenigstens in ihrer Planung auf eine lange Zeit angelegt sein und dem Menschen eine sichere Verkapselung bieten. Nicht selten findet der Körper in seinen Behältnissen eine situative, fast organische Erweiterung und geht ein hochgradig nahes und intimes Verhältnis mit ihnen ein. Wenn wir in diesem Band unter dem Schlagwort Selbstbehältnisse nach ...
KontaktZonen
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universitèat Basel, 2007) under the title: KontaktZonen. Alltagsbezeichnungen als rèaumliche Praxis in einem jèudisch-christlichen Dorf, Lengnau (Schweiz) im 19. Jh.
Einspruch und Abwehr
Die Entstehung des Antisemitismus im 19. Jahrhundert stellte die jüdische Bevölkerung in Europa vor eine gänzlich neue Situation. Sie sah sich neuartigen Formen von Angriffen, Ausgrenzungen und Anfeindungen ausgesetzt. In einem breiten europäischen Panorama beschreibt das Jahrbuch die politischen und intellektuellen Reaktionen der Juden auf diese Bedrohung. Die Gegenwehr der Juden wird dabei nicht nur in den nationalen Kontexten vorgestellt, es werden auch die transnationalen Verflechtungen diskutiert. Insbesondere das Bild der Juden als wehrlose Opfer wird kritisch hinterfragt und korrigiert.
Die Rabbiner der Emanzipationszeit in den deutschen, böhmischen und großpolnischen Ländern 1781-1871
Das Biographische Handbuch der Rabbiner erschließt das Rabbinat des mitteleuropäischen Raums anhand von rabbinisch-hebräischen wie in verschiedenen europäischen Sprachen verfassten Quellen. Alphabetisch geordnet, enthalten die Artikel zu den einzelnen Rabbinern möglichst vollständige Daten zu Herkunft, Ausbildung, Laufbahn, Familie und religiöser Position sowie eine Bibliographie. Dieses Handbuch mit in der Mehrzahl bisher unerforschten Gelehrtenbiographien ermöglicht erstmals ein Gesamtbild des Berufsstands im deutschsprachigen Judentum der Moderne.
