English summary: Fantasy is predestined to present Jewish assimilation in its very complex historical as well as socio- and cultural political contexts and at the same time reveals a reflected temporary knowledge of assimilation - against the common discourse. Chosen examples of fantasy literature by non-Jewish authors show the variety of motives and depiction of various processes of transformation as well as the subversive of fantasy literature. This study analyses how motives like the doppelganger, vampire or chimera describe different forms of transformation; and traces the spoors of...

English summary: "The other tradition. Psalms-Poems of the 20th Century" deals with poems which refer to Biblical Psalms in content and form. The author analyses poems by German-writing poets of the last century: from Else Lasker-Schuler, Georg Trakl and Bertolt Brecht through Karl Wolfskehl, Gertrud Kolmar and Nelly Sachs to Ingeborg Bachmann, Christine Lavant, Thomas Bernhard, Friedrich Durrenmatt and Peter Huchel. Special attention is given to some poets from the Bucovina: Alfred Margul-Sperber, Isaac Schreyer, Alfred Gong, Immanuel Weissglas and Paul Celan. An excursus on Psalm-Poems by...

The book explores the conscious usage of Jewish mystical themes and motifs in popular (as well as arthouse) cinema from the silent film era to the present. This historical, as well as geographic, arc spanning from Paul Wegener's Golem (1920) to films such as David Goyer's The Unborn (2009), Ang Lee's Life of Pi (2012) or David Aronofsky's Noah (2014), is held together by a tightly argued and detailed discussion of both the kabbalist elements themselves and their presence in film and television.Organized in four interrelated parts, the study focuses on mystical secrets of the Hebrew alphabet...

Nach 1945 veranderte der christliche Dialog mit dem Judentum die Theologie. Der Band fragt, wo der Dialog gegenwartig steht, und reflektiert die gegenwartigen Herausforderungen mit Blick auf die Zukunft. In 18 Beitragen zeigen renommierte judische und christliche Expertinnen und Experten des judisch-christlichen Gesprachs vor allem fur den deutschen Sprachraum Perspektiven auf - mit einem Seitenblick auf die derzeitige ungarische Realitat, der zwei Beitrage gewidmet sind. Sie beschaftigen sich mit exemplarischen Dialoginitiativen, mit dem Thema Dialog in Judischen Museen, dialogfordernden...