Die internationale Erforschung der deutschsprachigen Literatur jüdischer Autorinnen und Autoren (neben den deutschsprachigen Ländern vor allem USA, Israel, England und Frankreich) wurde insbesondere seit den 1970er Jahren intensiviert. Dabei stehen einzelne Persönlichkeiten, Epochen, Gattungen, Medien oder Einzelprobleme im Vordergrund. Bis heute fehlt allerdings eine Darstellung, in der die Erträge der Forschung zum Gesamtgebiet bis in die Gegenwart zusammengefasst und bewertet werden. Diese Lücke schließt das vorliegende Handbuch, das in drei Teile gegliedert ist. In Teil 1 steht die geschichtliche Entwicklung der deutsch-jüdischen Literatur vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart im Mittelpunkt, ergänzt durch ein vorangestelltes Kapitel zur Situation im Mittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit. Dabei geht es um prinzipielle Fragen jüdisch-religiöser und jüdisch-kultureller Positionen, soweit sie für die deutsch-jüdische Literatur relevant sind, sowie um die Auseinandersetzung mit antijüdischen resp. antisemitischen Strömungen in der deutschen Gesellschaft und ihren Niederschlag in der deutschen Literatur. Jüdische Tradition und jüdische Existenz bilden die leitenden Gesichtspunkte für die Untersuchung bis in die Gegenwart. Teil 2 nimmt wesentliche Orte und Räume der Herausbildung deutsch-jüdischer Literatur bzw. des Einflusses auf sie in den Blick (Berlin, Wien, Prag, Czernowitz, das jiddischsprachige Osteuropa). Dadurch wird die europäische Dimension des Gegenstandsbereichs deutlich. In Teil 3 werden Genres, Medien und kulturelle Institutionen dargestellt, die für die deutsch-jüdische Literatur prägend sind - historischer Roman, Ghettoliteratur, Autobiographie oder religiöse Literatur, Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Drama und Theater, Film, Presse, Verlage, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, aber auch Witz oder Aggada als prägende Formen jüdischer Geistigkeit.

Handbuch der deutsch-jüdischen Literatur (German Edition)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

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Nazi Crimes against Jews and German Post-War Justice: The West German Judicial System During Allied Occupation (1945–1949) (New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History, 3)

While the International Military Tribunal and the subsequent American Military Tribunals at Nuremberg dealt with a variety of Nazi crimes, these courts did not consider themselves cognizant in adjudicating wrongdoings against those who lost German citizenship based on the so-called "Nuremberg laws," such as Germany's Jews. Until recently, scholarship failed to explore this task of the German judiciary in more detail. Edith Raim fills this gap by showing the extent of the crimes committed against Jews beyond the traditionally known facts and by elucidating how the West German administration of justice was reconstructed under Allied supervision.

History

Raim, Edith

Europe

Military cemeteries are one of the most prominent cultural landscapes of Israel. Their story reflects largely the main social processes that Israeli society has been undergoing since the War of Independence (1948)until today. Until the end of the 1970s, the military tombstones and their surroundings were uniform and equal, according to rules set by the State. However, since the 1980s families of the fallen soldiers started to add on the tombstone personal expressions, as well as personal objects, photographs, military artifacts etc. Thus the military tombstone and the Israeli military cemetery became one of the expressions of the dramatic transformation, from a society which emphasized the importance of the collective, to a society which intensifies the significance of the individual. The book is based on many archival documents, as well as interviews and photographs, all of which shed light on one of the most sensitive issues in Israeli society and express its importance as a central component of Israeli identity.

The Tombstone in Israel’s Military Cemetery since 1948: Israel’s Transition from Collectivism to Individualism

Katz, Yossi

Africa

Modern Jewish Scholarship in Hungary: The ‚Science of Judaism‘ between East and West (Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge Book 14)

Life Configurations focuses on the analysis and reflection on the various forms in which human beings imagine, design, conjecture, and plan their ]"becoming", that is to say their lives. Case studies written by an interdisciplinary circle of well-known academics explore how the capacity of designing life, the concept of free will, and the methods to calculate the future have been changed and adopted in different societies and in different ages.

Life Configurations (Challenges of Life: Essays on philosophical and cultural anthropology)

Religion & Spirituality

Originating in the collaboration of the international Research Network "Gender in Antisemitism, Orientalism and Occidentalism" (RENGOO), this collection of essays proposes to intervene in current debates about historical constructions of Jewish identity in relation to colonialism and Orientalism. The network]'s collaborative research addresses imaginative and aesthetic rather than sociological questions with particular focus on the function of gender and sexuality in literary, scholarly and artistic transformations of Orientalist images. RENGOO's first publication explores the ways in which stereotypes of the external and internal Other intertwine. With its interrogation of the roles assumed in this interplay by gender, processes of sexualization, and aesthetic formations, the volume suggests new directions to the interdisciplinary study of gender, antisemitism, and Orientalism.

Orientalism, Gender, and the Jews: Literary and Artistic Transformations of European National Discourses (Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge, 23)

Brunotte, Ulrike

Ludewig, Anna-Dorothea

Stähler, Axel

The series European-Jewish Studies reflects the international network and competence of the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European Jewish studies (MMZ). Thanks to the highly interdisciplinary character of the series, which is edited in collaboration with the Selma Stern Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, particular emphasis is placed on the way in which history, the humanities and cultural sciences approach the subject, as well as on fundamental intellectual, political and religious questions that inspire Jewish life and thinking today, and have influenced it in the past. The CONTRIBUTIONS publish excellent monographs and anthologies on the entire spectrum of themes from Jewish studies. The series is peer-reviewed.

Franz Werfel und der Genozid an den Armeniern (Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge, 22) (German Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Music was one component of the cultural continuum that developed in the contiguous civilizations of the ancient Near East and of Greece and Rome. This book covers the range and gamut of this symbiosis, as well as scrutinizes archeological findings, texts, and iconographical materials in specific geographical areas along this continuum. The book, volume VIII of Yuval - Studies of the Jewish Music Research Centre at the Hebrew University, provides an updated scholarly assessment of the rich soundscapes of ancient civilizations.

Music in Antiquity: The Near East and the Mediterranean (Studies of the Jewish Music Research Centre, 8)

Arts & Photography

UNKNOWN

Every year, the Bibliography catalogues the most important new publications, historiographical monographs, and journal articles throughout the world, extending from prehistory and ancient history to the most recent contemporary historical studies. Within the systematic classification according to epoch, region, and historical discipline, works are also listed according to author s name and characteristic keywords in their title."

2010

Mastrogregori, Massimo

Historical Study & Educational Resources

"Higher mathematics" once pointed towards the involvement of infinity. This we label analysis. The ancient Greeks had helped it to a first high point when they mastered the infinite. The book traces the history of analysis along the risky route of serial procedures through antiquity. It took quite long for this type of mathematics to revive in our region. When and where it did, infinite series proved the driving force. Not until a good two millennia had gone by, would analysis head towards Greek rigor again. To follow all that trial, error and final accomplishment, is more than studying history: It provides touching, worthwhile access to advanced calculus. Moreover, some steps beyond convergence show infinite series to naturally fit a wider frame.

Infinite Series in a History of Analysis: Stages up to the Verge of Summability (De Gruyter Textbook)

Science & Math

Körle, Hans-Heinrich

Mathematics

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