Kategoria BISAC: History >> Jewish - General

Der Band dokumentiert die internen Anweisungen der SS-Lagerleitung an die Wachmannschaften von Auschwitz. Die seinerzeit als hektographierte Mitteilungen ausgegebenen Befehle blieben nur in wenigen Exemplaren erhalten - verstreut in deutschen, polnischen und russischen Archiven - und wurden von der Forschung bisher kaum beachtet. In ihrem Detailreichtum ein eindrucksvolles Zeugnis vom "Alltag" der SS am Schauplatz der Massenvernichtung, sind sie daruber hinaus eine bedeutende Quelle fur die Geschichtsschreibung des Holocaust.

Wahrend des Zweiten Weltkriegs lebten etwa 4.500 Juden spanischer Staatsangehorigkeit im deutschen Machtbereich. Bis 1942 waren sie wie andere auslandische Juden von den Deportationen in die Todeslager ausgenommen. Himmler und Eichmann drangten aber darauf, auch Auslander zu deportieren. Aus auenpolitischen Rucksichtnahmen setzte das Auswartige Amt in Berlin durch, da zehn neutralen und verbundeten Staaten 1942/43 die Moglichkeit zur Repatriierung ihrer Juden gegeben wurde. Die Arbeit, fur die erstmals alle relevanten spanischen und deutschen Quellen sowie Archive in Israel, Frankreich,...

In behutsamen Analysen ausgewahlter dramatischer Szenen von Nelly Sachs (1891-1970) - "Abram im Salz," "Beryll sieht in der Nacht," "Der magische Tanzer" - werden die judischen, sprachphilosophischen und asthetischen Traditionen herausgearbeitet, die fur das szenische Werk der Dichterin von Bedeutung sind. Die Texte selbst stellen einen in sich komplexen kunstlerischen Reflexionsproze uber die Grenzen lyrischen und dramatischen Sprechens dar. Eine kritische Lekture von Walter Benjamins und Peter Szondis Arbeiten zur Sprache und zum Drama des 20. Jahrhunderts bildet die Basis fur...

This book-series, initiated in 1992, has an interdisciplinary orientation; it is published in English and German and comprises research monographs, collections of essays and editions of source texts dealing with German-Jewish literary and cultural history, in particular from the period covering the 18th to 20th centuries.

The closer definition of the term German-Jewish applied to literature and culture is an integral part of its historical development. Primarily, the decisive factor is that from the middle of the 18th century German gradually became the language of choice for Jews,...

Leopold Jessner (1878-1945) leitete ab 1919, als das Theater in Deutschland erstmals in den Dienst der Demokratie trat, in Berlin das grote Schauspielhaus der Republik. Als bekennender Jude und Sozialist raucherte er den wilhelminischen Kunstgeist aus und gab der demokratischen Epoche ein vollkommen neuartiges kunstlerisches Gesicht. Fur diese Tat hassten ihn Konservative mehr als manchen Staatsmann. Bereits in Jessners Hamburger und Konigsberger Zeit entwickelte er seinen raumgliedernden und sachlich-knappen Regiestil, der am Staatstheater in Berlin eine Revolution ausloste. Er entriss...

On Sunday, March 20, 1911, children playing in a cave near Kiev made a gruesome discovery: the blood-soaked body of a partially clad boy. After right-wing groups asserted that the killing was a ritual murder, the police, with no direct evidence, arrested Menachem Mendel Beilis, a 39-year-old Jewish manager at a factory near the site of the crime. Beilis's trial in 1913 quickly became an international cause celebre. The jury ultimately acquitted Beilis but held that the crime had the hallmarks of a ritual murder. Robert Weinberg's account of the Beilis Affair explores the reasons why the...

This well-crafted family memoir is about the stories that are told and the ones that are not told, and about the ways the meanings of the stories change down the generations. It is about memory and the spaces between memories, and about alienation and reconciliation.

All of Amy Hoffman's grandparents came to the United States during the early twentieth century from areas in Poland and Russia that are now Belarus and Ukraine. Like millions of immigrants, they left their homes because of hopeless poverty, looking for better lives or at the least a chance of survival. Because of the luck,...

From the acclaimed biographer, screenwriter, and novelist Frederic Raphael, here is an audacious history of Josephus (37 c.100), the Jewish general turned Roman historian, whose emblematic betrayal is a touchstone for the Jew alone in the Gentile world.
Joseph ben Mattathias s transformation into Titus Flavius Josephus, historian to the Roman emperor Vespasian, is a gripping and dramatic story. His life, in the hands of Frederic Raphael, becomes a point of departure for an appraisal of Diasporan Jews seeking a place in the dominant cultures they inhabit. Raphael brings a scholar s...

Although early Zionist thinkers perhaps naively believed that anti-Jewish persecution would end with sovereignty, anti-Zionism has become one form of the new antisemitism following World War II. Because antisemitism has not been effectively addressed, anti-Jewish rhetoric, activism, and deadly violence have flourished around the world.
In Anti-Judaism, Antisemitism, and Delegitimizing Israel editor Robert S. Wistrich and an array of notable academics, journalists, and political scientists analyze multiple aspects of the current surge in anti-Jewish and anti-Israel rhetoric and...

Young Germans marched through Haifa shouting "Heil Hitler " and Swastika flags were hoisted at the German consulates in Mandatory Palestine. It was in November 1931 when a non-Jewish German made the initial contact with Nazi officials in Germany that led to the establishment of a miniature Third Reich with local NS groups, Hitler Youth program, and associations for women, teachers, and others in Palestine. Approximately 33% of all Palestine-Germans (Palastina-Deutsche) participated in the NS movement. Until today no extensive research written in English has been done on this bizarre...

The emerging Jewish national consciousness in Europe toward the end of the 19th century claims many spiritual fathers, some of which have been seriously underestimated so far. Zionist intellectuals such as Moses Hess, Leon Pinsker and Isaac Rulf were already committed to the self-liberation of the Jewish people long before Theodor Herzl. Their experiences and observations brought them to believe that the emancipation and integration of Jews were not realistically possible in Europe. Instead, they began to think in national and territorial terms. The author explores the question as to what...

Inhalt: Martin Swales, Introductory Remarks. - Ritchie Robertson, Cultural Stereotypes and Social Anxiety in Georg Hermann's Jettchen Gebert. - Tiziane Schon, Nervenschwache Generationen - begabte Neurastheniker. Georg Hermanns Der kleine Gast als Berliner Pendant zu Arthur Schnitzlers Der Weg ins Freie. - Ulrike Zitzlsperger, Berlin als soziales Umfeld im Werk Georg Hermanns. - Gundel Mattenklott, Zeitstrukturen im Romanwerk Georg Hermanns: Die Kette. - Laureen Nussbaum, A Sampling of Georg Hermann's Letters about German Literature,...