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Jewish Rothenburg ob der Tauber : an invitation to take a walk /
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (pages 33-34)
Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe, record group 61 : Entries on members of the Jewish community in the proceedings of Nellenburg County /
No full textIndex of Jewish individuals listed in Nellenburg County court records from 1719 to 1808. The index covers both civil and criminal cases and includes names, volume and page numbers, dates, and some brief summaries of the cases. Individuals listed in the index come from the town of Gailingen, Worblingen, Wangen, and Randegg.digitize
Jews in Italy : Deportation and resistance.
No full textStories of victims in the Italian Holocaust, listing deportations from Bolzano; Ferrara; Florence; Fossoli; Gubbio; Lago Maggiore; Milano; Pisa; Rome; Trieste; Verona; and other places. Also mentioned are Italian resistance fighters against fascism. The following individuals are mentioned: Matilde Bassani; Nathan Cassuto; Anna Cassuto di Gioachino; Concetto Marchesi; Bruno Segre; Enzo Sereni.This is the translation of a publication at Tipografia Giuntina, Firenze, 1975.The original Italian language publication is available in the LBI Library, call number DS 135 I 8 C45
What happened to the Austrian refugee children in America? : A report from research project ‘Second Wave’ /
No full textReport on a study about children and young adults, who immigrated to the US from Austria and Central Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.Based on a presentation at the international symposium : “Austria and National Socialism: implication for scientific and humanistic scholarship”, June 5-6, 2003, University of Vienna
Jews in Chile : A confidential file of the German embassy in Santiago, June 1939.
No full textTranslation of a Spanish manuscript written in 1997 at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem:This is a survey of the history of German Jews in Chile since the 1850s. Jewish families settled in Chile since 1915. With the rise of the Nazis in Germany, Jews in Chile organized an association for Jewish immigrants, ‘Comite de Ayuda’, while the German embassy in Santiago reported back to Berlin about the ‘Jewish problem’ in Chile. A report by Dr. Georg Leisewitz emphasized the problem of a ‘Jewish hold’ on natural resources in Chile, citing for example the industrial concern ‘Mauricio Hochschild & Cia. Ltda.’. Leisewitz also elaborated on racial issues of Chile’s ‘Jewish problem’ throughout its history.John Grossmann, February 2003The original Spanish publication is available in LBI Library, call number F 3285 J4 1997.Synopsis in fil
Cynthia Ozick and Jewish literature: A reader.
No full textCynthia Ozick is one of the most respected contemporary American authors, whose fiction, according to many critics, exemplifies "the Jewish writer oxymoron." Ozick respects the Jewish Covenant and its tradition, but she uses her imagination to invent stories; she worries about the temptations of paganism and the dangers of idolatry, but she fabricates fictional golems; she strongly refuses the label "woman writer", but she writes essays in defense of feminism, demanding equal rights with respect to the Torah; she despises the treatment of Jewish history (and of the Holocaust in particular) as fiction, but she "cannot not write about it". In short, Cynthia Ozick's art resists narrow categorization and her fiction overcomes rigid confines, both literary and ideological. These intriguing thematic complexities and cultural intricacies, dealt with a robust sense of humor and stylistic richness, deserve to be brought to the attention of the Italian reading public. In fact, if Ozick's belletristic reputation has been amply recognized in the United States, her popularity in Italy is still scant as very little of her production has been translated into Italian. The aim of this dissertation is to offer a sample of Cynthia Ozick's literary production as representative of both contemporary American literature and Jewish culture. Ozick's poems, short stories, and essays---which have been grouped in three different sections---have been chosen to introduce the author's kaleidoscopic production as reflective of her immense variety of interests and mental acuteness. Moreover, Cynthia Ozick's work is also used to exemplify some of the major recent shifts in translation studies, showing how the degree of her popularity in Italy depends on a slow dynamic, aimed at filling cultural gaps or at mapping new emerging cultural and religious geographies. Ozick's reception in Italian, in fact, raises significant linguistic and cultural problems including assimilation and marginality, the clash between the periphery and the center, and the use of translation as the process of canonization of a foreign writer who is also the representative of a "weak" literature, in the sense given by Itamar Even-Zohar in his Polysystem Theory.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003.School code: 0118
Seeing and being seen: Urban space and the German public, 1933--1949.
No full textThis dissertation examines the intersection of socio-political and spatial practices during the Nazi and immediate post-war periods in Germany. It asks first, how do we connect acts of legislation removing Jews from the German public to the urban visions articulated in Nazi architecture and city planning, and second, what implications did these Nazi visions have for modern architects imagining how to rebuild Germany's ruined cities immediately after the war? Drawing on architectural plans, accounts in architectural journals, print and film propaganda, period belles lettres, and memoirs, the dissertation reconstructs the ideological underpinnings for both periods' attempts to "redeem" the metropolis.Fantasies about Jewish visibility first articulated in Mein Kampf drove much of the Third Reich's public statements about urban space and allowed the Nazis to instrumentalize the public/private opposition in a manner useful to their own consolidation of power. Focussing on how Nazi propaganda cast the private sphere as "Jewish," the dissertation argues that for the Nazis turning Berlin into a truly "worthy" capital city and eliminating its "Jewishness" meant not only physically removing Jewish bodies, but renegotiating the "place" of private buildings in the city. Yet as internal documents from Albert Speer's office show, these very goals, which defined acceptable limits for the use of commercial elements, often constrained Speer's attempts to create "urban life" for the new Berlin.Following from this insight that Nazi architectural propaganda relentlessly constructs public/private oppositions within its visions for urban space, the dissertation examines those modern architects and planners who explicitly defined themselves in opposition to Nazi architectural practice by embracing the discourse of humanism and recuperating the private realm they saw leveled by Nazism. Using the work of Hannah Arendt, a figure not usually brought to bear on urban questions, particularly her arguments concerning the lingering damage of Nazi totalitarianism on the public sphere, I argue that these architects' wish to dismantle the metropolis and reaffirm the value of private space was, despite their intents, profoundly de-politicizing and thus failed to address an important legacy of Nazism.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2003.School code: 0054
Cynthia Ozick and Jewish literature: A reader.
No full textCynthia Ozick is one of the most respected contemporary American authors, whose fiction, according to many critics, exemplifies "the Jewish writer oxymoron." Ozick respects the Jewish Covenant and its tradition, but she uses her imagination to invent stories; she worries about the temptations of paganism and the dangers of idolatry, but she fabricates fictional golems; she strongly refuses the label "woman writer", but she writes essays in defense of feminism, demanding equal rights with respect to the Torah; she despises the treatment of Jewish history (and of the Holocaust in particular) as fiction, but she "cannot not write about it". In short, Cynthia Ozick's art resists narrow categorization and her fiction overcomes rigid confines, both literary and ideological. These intriguing thematic complexities and cultural intricacies, dealt with a robust sense of humor and stylistic richness, deserve to be brought to the attention of the Italian reading public. In fact, if Ozick's belletristic reputation has been amply recognized in the United States, her popularity in Italy is still scant as very little of her production has been translated into Italian. The aim of this dissertation is to offer a sample of Cynthia Ozick's literary production as representative of both contemporary American literature and Jewish culture. Ozick's poems, short stories, and essays---which have been grouped in three different sections---have been chosen to introduce the author's kaleidoscopic production as reflective of her immense variety of interests and mental acuteness. Moreover, Cynthia Ozick's work is also used to exemplify some of the major recent shifts in translation studies, showing how the degree of her popularity in Italy depends on a slow dynamic, aimed at filling cultural gaps or at mapping new emerging cultural and religious geographies. Ozick's reception in Italian, in fact, raises significant linguistic and cultural problems including assimilation and marginality, the clash between the periphery and the center, and the use of translation as the process of canonization of a foreign writer who is also the representative of a "weak" literature, in the sense given by Itamar Even-Zohar in his Polysystem Theory.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2003.School code: 0118
West of center: Jews on the real and imagined frontiers of Texas.
No full textThis dissertation is a narrative history of Texas Jewry focusing on ways that the idea of the frontier has shaped Jewish life and religious practice in Texas. It covers the experience of Texas Jews from the late sixteenth century---when "secret Jews" fleeing the Spanish Inquisition may have settled in South Texas---to the present. It includes topics such as the appearance of the first Jews in the state, the beginnings of Jewish communities and religious institutions; the Galveston Immigration Movement; the creation of the state's first Jewish newspaper; the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s; the ideological clashes over Zionism and religious orthodoxy that culminated in the Houston Controversy of 1942; the impact on Texas Jews of the Holocaust, World War II, and the establishment of Israel; the conflicted feelings of Jewish Texans toward the Civil Rights Movement; and the nature of the community today.As a diasporic people living in what one Jewish historian described as "one of the last corners of the Dispersion," Texas Jews built religious communities far from the acknowledged centers of Jewish culture and history, doing so with an awareness of themselves as a peripheral community. Early chapters of this study explore the effect of the "material" frontier---the realities of space, distance and remoteness---on nineteenth-century Texas Jewish communities. Even when the material frontier disappeared, however, Texas Jews continued to imagine themselves as a peripheral people. The geographic distance that separated them from Jewish centers, formerly a critical factor in defining their communities and religious lives, became an imagined distance, an "interior" frontier composed of symbolic distinctions between Texas Jews and other groups. Later chapters examine this phenomenon and trace through the social and political developments of the twentieth century how Texas Jews continue to define themselves as a distinct people in contrast both to other Texans and other Jews.Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Austin, 2003.School code: 0227