German-Jewish studies : next generations / edited by Kerry Wallach and Aya Elyada.

"As a field, German-Jewish Studies emphasizes the dangers of nationalism, monoculturalism, and ethnocentrism, while making room for multilingual and transnational perspectives with questions surrounding migration, refugees, exile, and precarity. Focussing on the relevance and utility of the fie...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Wallach, Kerry (Editor), Elyada, Aya, 1977- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2023.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: German-Jewish studies for the twenty-first century / Kerry Wallach and Aya Elyada
  • Le-Dor va-Dor or discontinuities? Family networks and the transnational turn in (German-)Jewish studies / Mirjam Thulin
  • Old Yiddish texts in German-Jewish culture: Diachronic translation and the (re)turn to the past / Aya Elyada
  • Orthodoxy as a German-Jewish legacy / Joshua Shanes
  • Contested contextualizations: Relating German-Jewish history to the history of colonialism / Stefan Vogt
  • The place of Yiddish in German-Jewish studies / Nick Block
  • Metaphysik der Gottferne: Negativity, intellectual communities, and German-Jewish studies / Matthew Handelman
  • Art without borders: Artist Rahel Szalit-Marcus and Jewish visual culture / Kerry Wallach
  • Woman, scientist, and Jew: The forced migration of Berta Ottenstein / Stefanie Mahrer
  • A global network and diaspora of German-Jewish historians and archives: Reappraising the enduring legacy of German Jewry / Jason Lustig
  • Jewish mourning in the aftermath of the Holocaust: Tending individual graves in occupied Germany, 1945-49 / Stefanie Fischer
  • German-Jewish fiction on the Holocaust: The ethics of narrative cCausality in Edgar Hilsenrath's disfigured narration / Corey L. Twitchell
  • (Un-)Jewish musical spaces in Munich: Past and present / Tina Frühauf
  • Epilogue: The dynamic relationship of "German" and "Jewish" / Michael A. Meyer.