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Der franzosische Gelehrte Isaac La Peyrere (1596-1676) galt schon seinen Zeitgenossen als 'Enfant terrible'. Bis in die jungste Forschung haben seine skandalumwitterten Schriften zu polarisierenden Deutungen gefuhrt, die ihn entweder als Kryptojuden oder als fruhen Atheisten ausweisen. Erstmals untersucht die vorliegende Studie ihn und sein Werk nicht nur theologiegeschichtlich, sondern auch im spezifischen Kontext der sozialen Praktiken der europaischen Gelehrtenrepublik des 17. Jahrhunderts. In diesem Spannungsfeld erweisen sich klare Zuordnungen dann als unzulassige Vereindeutigungen:...

Menasseh ben Israel (1604-1657) war einer der bekanntesten Rabbiner des fruhneuzeitlichen Europa. Beruhmtheit erlangte er vor allem durch die Verhandlungen, die er mit Oliver Cromwell uber die Ruckkehr der Juden nach England fuhrte. Doch die Englandverhandlungen machten nur den letzten Schritt in einer Reihe von Vermittlungsbemuhungen aus. Menasses ganzes Schreiben und Wirken war von dem Programm bestimmt, christlichen Gelehrten Wissen uber das Judentum zukommen zu lassen und den Sefarden so zu Anerkennung und einer Verbesserung ihrer politischen Situation zu verhelfen. Damit reagierte...

Originally published in German in 2012, this comprehensive history of Jewish life in postwar Germany provides a systematic account of Jews and Judaism from the Holocaust to the early 21st century by leading experts of modern German-Jewish history. Beginning in the immediate postwar period with a large concentration of Eastern European Holocaust survivors stranded in Germany, the book follows Jews during the relative quiet period of the fifties and early sixties during which the foundations of new Jewish life were laid.

Brenner's volume goes on to address the rise of anti-Israel...

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. They both escaped with their parents from Nazi persecution to North America where they met as students. As a newly married couple they went to the American South where they taught in two historic Black colleges and were involved in the civil rights movement. In 1961 they began going to West Germany regularly...

Published in Association with the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

Wilma and Georg Iggers came from different backgrounds, Wilma from a Jewish farming family from the German-speaking border area of Czechoslovakia, Georg from a Jewish business family from Hamburg. They both escaped with their parents from Nazi persecution to North America where they met as students. As a newly married couple they went to the American South where they taught in two historic Black colleges and were involved in the civil rights movement. In 1961 they began going to West Germany regularly...

Many books on Holocaust survivors deal with their lives in the Displaced Persons camps, with memory and remembrance, and with the nature of their testimonies. Representing scholars from different countries and different disciplines such as history, sociology, demography, psychology, anthropology, and literature, this collection explores the survivors' return to everyday life and how their experience of Nazi persecution and the Holocaust impacted their process of integration into various European countries, the United States, Argentina, Australia, and Israel. Thus, it offers a rich mix of...

The notion of "self" and "other" and its representation in artwork and literature is an important theme in current cultural sciences as well as in our everyday life in contemporary Western societies. Moreover, the concept of "self" and "other" and its imaginary dichotomy is gaining more and more political impact in a world of resurfacing ideology-ridden conflicts. The essays deal with Jewish reality in contemporary Germany and its reflection in movies from the special point of view of cultural sciences, political sciences, and religious studies. This anthology presents challengingly new...

The Jewish author and journalist Moritz Goldstein (1880-1977) lived in Berlin until he emigrated in 1933. This is the first time that a systematic, annotated anthology of Goldstein's articles and court reports has been published. It provides a deep insight into both turbulent day-to-day life in Berlin during the Weimar Republic and significant social history debates from the viewpoint of a German Jew.

But as international bestselling author Simon Kuper writes in Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Soccer in Europe During the Second World War, the...

Through the poetry of Bouena Sarfatty (1916-1997), An Ode to Salonika sketches the life and demise of the Sephardi Jewish community that once flourished in this Greek crossroads city. A resident of Salonika who survived the Holocaust as a partisan and later settled in Canada, Sarfatty preserved the traditions and memories of this diverse and thriving Sephardi community in some 500 Ladino poems known as coplas. The coplas also describe the traumas the community faced under German occupation before the Nazis deported its Jewish residents to Auschwitz. The coplas in Ladino and in Renee Levine...

A National Jewish Book Award-winning biography: A look at the early years of Israel's statehood, experienced through the life of a pioneering nurse.

During her extraordinary career, nurse Raquela Prywes was a witness to history. She delivered babies in a Holocaust refugee camp and on the Israeli frontier. She crossed minefields to aid injured soldiers in the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and organized hospitals to save the lives of those fighting the 1967 Six-Day War. Along the way, her own life was a series of triumphs and tragedies mirroring those of the newly formed Jewish...

This new edition is the first complete version of the correspondence between Ludwig Borne and his close confidante, Jeanette Wohl. All of the letters are furnished with a critical apparatus and enhanced through commentary about their historical context. This volume reveals how Borne established his reputation throughout Europe as an opposition writer and a foe of Metternich's police state. It is a rich source of information for research on German-Jewish history and provides scholars with biographical material, especially about Jeanette Wohl's contribution to Ludwig Borne's success as a...