German Rabbis in British Exile

ISBN-13: 9783110469486 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 329 str.

Astrid Zajdband

Opis

The rich history of the German rabbinate came to an abrupt halt with the November Pogrom of 1938. Many rabbis obtained visas and came to Britain and participated in the re-shaping of the Anglo-Jewish landscape. They supported their fellow refugees with spiritual and pastoral care and founded institutions and organizations, such as the Leo Baeck College in London. This created new impetus for Anglo-Jewry, an influence that can still be felt today.

Recenzje

"[...] Zajdband's study is well worth reading. We may hope that it will encourage more readers and researchers to engage with a German(-speaking)/British/Jewish history that can be described, in the best sense, as truly transnational."
Martina Niedhammer in: German Historical Institute London Bulletin XLI.1 (2019), 145-148

"Exhaustively researched, this detailed study is especially strong in exploring Germany's pre-Nazi Jewish landscape, the persecutions that arose after 1933, the difficulties in escaping and the moral dilemmas posed by fleeing and leaving congregations behind. [...] Overall, this is a welcome and valuable addition to the study of Jewish refugee sub-groups in 1930s Britain and it makes an important contribution to the historiography of migration, exile and refugee studies and the Second World War."
Jennifer Craig-Norton in: Judaica. Beiträge zum Verstehen des Judentums 73 (2017), 2-3, pp. 357-359

"[...] German Rabbis in British Exile is a great book in which its author Astrid Zajdband uncovers an almost unknown story and gives new insights into the history and broader implications of the German Jewish diaspora and its refugee rabbinate."
David Jünger in: German History, doi:10.1093/gerhis/ghx096, (05.01.2018)

"[...] gelungene, angenehm lesbare Studie."
Monika Halbinger in h-soz-kult http://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-27506

"Astrid Zajdband's study presents new information on the interesting question of how German rabbis managed their lives and professions in the very different ambiance of Great Britain. Its use of quantitative approaches, in addition to more traditional ones, in order to define the subject more precisely is a welcome innovation."
Michael A. Meyer, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion

O autorze

Astrid Zajdband, University of Sussex, Great Britain.