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Waronker 73
No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia
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No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia
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No full textDigital imageJay Waronker is an architect and a professor of architecture in the United States, educated at Cornell, Harvard, and the University of Michigan. His paintings and scholarship focus on the synagogues and Jewish architecture of the Indian subcontinent and sub-Saharan Africa, including synagogues found in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique, and Ethiopia
AHC interview with Karl Neumann
No full textOctober 29, 2008Karl Neumann was born on Nov. 16, 1931 in Vienna, Austria. He lived in Kagran – an area in Vienna’s 22nd district - with his parents and his younger sister. In 1939, their parents sent him and his sister to Sweden with the help of several Swedish organizations. They stayed there for 2 years, during which time their parents went to New York. Karl Neumann and his sister went on a long journey which took them to the USSR, Japan and finally to the USA. Karl Neumann attended Medical School and became a pediatrician, specializing in Travel Medicine. He joined the board of the International Society of Travel Medicine, giving lectures on travel health all over the world.Austrian Heritage Collectio
Culture, commerce, and the city: Aby Warburg, Ernst Cassirer, and Erwin Panofsky in Hamburg, 1919--1933.
No full textThis dissertation examines the intimate relationship between place and culture in Weimar-era Hamburg through the lives and works of its three most prominent intellectuals: the historian of art and civilization, Aby Warburg (1866-1929), the philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), and the art historian Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968). Cassirer, Panofsky, and Warburg shared an intellectual interest in the historical development of what they called "symbolic forms" in art history and philosophy from the classical through the modern periods. Rather than offer an exegesis of their works, I use their lives and works to investigate three historical themes: Weimar culture and politics; the relationship between Germans and Jews; and Hamburg's particular history in relation to Germany. I argue that this circle's unconventional methodology, bridging contextualism and formalism, as well as metaphysics and epistemology, reflected the cultural, political, and economic institutions of its host city. Hamburg enjoyed a longtime reputation as a mercantilist city, but it was not an intellectual center. Yet Hamburg's cosmopolitanism resulting from its international trade, its tradition of cultural philanthropy, and its loose institutional structure ultimately granted its scholars a unique degree of cultural autonomy. This dissertation shows how and why the unlikely port city of Hamburg---and not Berlin with its century-old university---produced one of the most important interdisciplinary contributions to the humanities in the twentieth century.The first chapter describes Warburg's role in the debate leading up to the University of Hamburg's founding in 1919 that pitted scholarly and economic interests against one another. The second presents Cassirer's appointment at the university as a testament to Warburg's vision of an open and liberal Hamburg, and Cassirer's potential departure as a threat to that vision. The third completes the triumvirate of the Hamburg School by placing Panofsky's groundbreaking work in the nascent field of art history in the context of Hamburg. The fourth focuses on the scholars' wives---Mary Warburg, Toni Cassirer, and Dora Panofsky---and views the circle through historical questions concerning gender and masculinity. The fifth chapter uses Cassirer's tenure as rector of the young university to describe the rise and fall of the "Republican moment" in German politics and ideas.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2008.School code: 0212
Constituting American Jewish childhood: Parameters of acceptable difference.
No full textAt the beginning of the twenty-first century a growing concern about assimilation provoked calls for reform of Jewish education. These calls for reform of Jewish education mimic similar calls for reform of public education within the United States. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the uptake of general social and educational discourses within the field of Jewish education and to examine (re)configurations of American Jewish childhood that have emerged as rules and standards of reasoning have shifted. In this "history of the present" I examine the mobilization of mainstream educational and social knowledge within the field of Jewish education and argue that shifting reasoning about childhood, Americanness, and Jewishness have effects of (re)constituting American Jewish childhood as the same as, but also as acceptably different from, normal American childhood. This dissertation is divided into three parts: Section One discusses the theoretical framework as well as an a priori , but shifting, relation of difference through which Jewishness constitutes itself and is constituted by others. Section Two examines Jewish educational literature of the mid-nineteenth century and the turn of the twentieth century. Section Three explores American Jewish educational literature in the decades after the Second World War, and in the present. The analysis focuses upon the uptake of shifting social and educational discourses by Jewish educational reformers such that the American Jewish child has been (re)constituted as a normal American child, whose Jewishness is within parameters of acceptable religious difference. Examination of the discursive formations of childhood, Americanness, and Jewishness, and the interactions between the discursive trajectories, within Jewish educational literature makes visible the ranking and ordering of populations inscribed within educational discourse and re-inscribed into notions of American Jewish childhood. Thus, the constitution of a same, but acceptably different American Jewish child has also had effects of constituting Jewish childhoods that are neither the same, nor acceptably different.Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2008.School code: 0262
A world of difference: Emma Wolf, a Jewish-American writer on the American frontier.
No full text"A World of Difference: Emma Wolf, A Jewish-American Writer on the American Frontier" is the first dissertation to undertake a scholarly inquiry of Wolf's Jewish novels, Other Things Being Equal and Heirs of Yesterday. Emma Wolf (1865--1932) was a Jewish-American literary pioneer who interrogated prevailing models of late nineteenth-century femininity, Judaism, and bifurcated, Jewish-American identity. This study retrieves the fiction of this native Californian from the margins of both Jewish and American literature. At the close of the nineteenth century, nearly all interest in American-Jewish life focused on the Eastern European Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side of New York City. Emma Wolf's fiction imparts a singular glimpse of a Western American enclave of Jewish life. Remarkably, Wolf's Jewish novels resist the prevailing patterns of assimilation espoused by most Jewish writers at the end of the century. Instead of abandoning culture, faith, and family, Wolf embraces Jewish particularity. The preservation of Jewish identity in Wolf's fiction is a consequence of her American birth, her California origins, and her conviction that Jewish difference is as important as American conformity.Other Things Being Equal (1892) scrutinizes the struggle of a young Jewish woman who wants to marry a Christian. In sanctioning intermarriage, the novel abrogates religious precepts and contravenes the customary marital patterns of Jewish women. The implications of intermarriage afford Wolf the opportunity to expand on issues of Jewish affirmation and Jewish difference. In Heirs of Yesterday (1900) Wolf examines divergent responses of Jewish-Americans to anti-Semitism. In order to protect himself from discrimination, Dr. Philip May hides his Jewish birth. Wolf suggests that Jews who are forgetful of their ethnic identity are as misguided as the segment of American society that discriminates against them. This study of Emma Wolf's Jewish novels concludes that we must take a new literary census, one that embraces minority writers, like Emma Wolf, in order to appreciate the pluralism of the American literary canon and the full panoply of the nation's cultural productivity.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2008.School code: 0006
That land is our land: Israel in American Jewish culture, 1948--1967.
No full textResponding to momentous global events such as the Holocaust and the birth of Israel, participating in major domestic trends such as suburbanization and the so-called "religious revival," and caught up in the anxious political atmosphere of the Cold War years, American Jews confronted the challenges of postwar life with guarded optimism and a sense of grave responsibility. Shouldering the gargantuan tasks now attendant on them both as citizens of the world's sole democratic superpower and as the thriving remnant of Diaspora Jewry, American Jews sought to gracefully navigate a tangled web of national, religious, and ethnic loyalties---a scenario both enlivened and complicated by the birth of Israel.This dissertation reveals how the emergence of Israel in 1948 set in motion a complex process of cultural adjustment and innovation among American Jews throughout the postwar period. Specifically, it examines how American Jews integrated Israel into American Jewish culture, from literature and the arts to consumer and material culture to education, in both secular and religious settings. It is precisely in these arenas that American Jews fashioned an idealized but multi-hued Israel that, in their estimation, could be all things to all Americans---teenagers and housewives, art lovers and business entrepreneurs, Zionists and non-Zionists, Jews and non-Jews. Israel thus came to be seen as a source of spiritual and communal regeneration, a spur to inter-ethnic and international brotherhood in the age of the atom bomb, an ally in the spread of free-market capitalism, and as a player in the international culture scene. What's more, in propagating the idea that Israel---a new, impoverished Middle Eastern nation of uncertain geopolitical worth to the United States---was a true analogue to postwar America, American Jews positioned Israel as a bridge between Jewish and non-Jewish Americans in the postwar decades. The Israel of the American Jewish imagination thus served as both a means of outreach and a communal cause. As this dissertation argues, postwar American Jews succeeded in domesticating Israel in this period, transforming the Jewish state from terra incognita into a recognizable entity and, they hoped, an admired and treasured American friend.Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2008.School code: 0315
AHC interview with Gerda Anna Schoenfeld.
No full textJune 2, 2008Gerda Anna Schoenfeld née Bauer was born in Budapest (Hungary) in 1919. She grew up in Innsbruck, Austria, where she participated in meetings of the youth sports club Maccabi Hazair, an organization that became very important for her identity. Right before the 'Anschluss' in 1938 she went to Italy to visit relatives, and from there she emigrated to England with the help of a ‘domestic permit’.In Innsbruck, Gerda Schoenfeld's father got seriously injured by the SA during 'Kristallnacht'. Her parents then moved to Vienna and from there they immigrated to the United States. Mrs. Schoenfeld lived from 1939 until 1940 in England and immigrated to the US, where she was reunited with her parents.Austrian Heritage Collectio
AHC interview with Ilie Wacs.
No full textOctober 20, 2008Ilie Wacs was born on Dec. 11, 1927 in Vienna, Austria. In August 1939 his family went to Shanghai, where they were interned in the Ghetto in 1943. During his stay in Shanghai, Wacs finished his education and worked as a tailor. In 1949 he received a scholarship for the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, where he studied for two years. After that he joined his family in New York, where he worked as a fashion designer until he retired in 1998.Austrian Heritage Collectio