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Dedication of the Commodore Uriah P. Levy Center and Jewish Chapel at the U.S. Naval Academy
No full textMaterials relating to the dedication of the Commodore Uriah P. Levy Center and Jewish Chapel at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD. These items include a consecration program held on Shabbat, area maps, remarks by Vice Admiral Rodney P. Rempt, a press release, fact sheets, a program issued by Friends of the Jewish Chapel, and programs of the dedication ceremony. Oversized items are located in OS1 Folder 1 of 1.Digital ImageDigital finding aid available
In fide et officio : Baron Max and Baron Gustav Springer.
No full textThe lives of Baron Max Springer and his son Baron Gustav Springer reflect the manifold opportunities, which were offered to descendents of privileged Jewish families in the Habsburg monarchy during the 19th century.Bibliography : pages 73-75digitize
Die Pringsheims. Zur Geschichte einer schlesischen Familie (18.-20. Jahrhundert).
No full textRevised version of article published in Aus Wissenschaftsgeschichte und -theorie. Hubert Laitko zum 70. Geburtstag überreicht von Freunden, Kollegen und Schülern. Hrsg. v. Horst Kant u. Annette Vogt. (Berlin, 2005), pages 189-219.Michael Engel, January 2006 (via Email)The Pringsheim includes many famous scientists, such as Alfred Pringsheim (Mathematician), Hans Pringsheim (Biochemist), and Ernst Pringsheim (Physicist)
Negotiating the German-Jewish: The uncomfortable writing of Karl Emil Franzos.
No full textThis dissertation uses published and unpublished texts by the Austrian Jewish writer, Karl Emil Franzos (1848--1904), as a springboard for investigating a host of questions concerning Jewish assimilation, acculturation, and identity in late nineteenth-century Germany and Austria. Expanding on Jost Hermand's notion that Franzos's writing is "uncomfortable" because it abjures the ideological extremes with which Franzos was confronted, I seek out the negotiatory aspects of his work, identifying slippages that result in a fundamental disruption of the identity categories of the Jewish and the German.In Franzos's "cultural portraits" of the ethnic groups in the East of the Austrian Empire, particularly in his "ghetto fiction," he positions himself vis-a-vis these groups as a comfortably German author, conveying to his Western readers a supposedly objective picture of the Eastern crown lands he also called home. Rather than re-inscribe Franzos within a clear West/East, German/Jewish dichotomy of his own making, as does most of the existing literature on Franzos, I argue that by their very certitude, Franzos's texts betray the liminality of his identity positions. Franzos's texts are rife with what Homi Bhabha calls "interstitial" moments, revealing him as an "in-between" figure, but this "in-between" is not located neatly in the middle of the German and the Jewish, the Western and the Eastern, as Franzos would have us believe. This middle ground is itself discomfortingly flexible, expressing a range of positions.I argue in Chapter One that Franzos's view of himself is primarily that of writer, not German or Jew, and that his writing defies simple inscription into traditional literary categories such as "Ghettoliteratur." In Chapter Two, I situate Franzos historically in the context of Bildung, a concept that played a critical role in the development of German-Jewish relations in the nineteenth century. In Chapter Three, I draw on post-colonial literary theory to investigate the ambiguous fluctuation between liberatory and colonialist rhetoric in Franzos's texts. This vacillation---which, Bhabha argues, emerges in the very act of writing---undermines the authority of the colonialist author and his text by pointing to the "partiality" of identity.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2005.School code: 0130
Cynthia Ozick's sacral aesthetic.
No full textThis dissertation proposes a new way of understanding Cynthia Ozick's aesthetic project. I argue that her short stories and novels are engaged in untangling her self-styled contradiction between the creative impulse and Jewish observance. That is, while her non-fiction essays argue that story writing is akin to idol-making and studying literature akin to idolatry, her fictional narratives escape such censure because they are intended to work in the service of God, not to transgress God's commandments. In her fiction, Ozick employs narrative strategies that challenge what she has labelled the impious impulse of art. Such strategies include her characterizations, which often feature pious intellectuals, her narrative structures, which are often midrashic, and her language, which is frequently liturgical and exalted. These strategies point to Ozick's return to the Hebrew covenant.Chapter One lays out the paradox Ozick creates in several of her essays and introduces those essays and short stories that illustrate her competing claims. Chapter Two discusses the early stories "The Pagan Rabbi" and "Envy; or, Yiddish in America" as meditations on the Fifth Commandment through an investigation of parenthood and the transmission of tradition. Chapter Three examines the novellas "Bloodshed" and "Rosa" as explorations of the possibility of a post-Holocaust renewal of Jewish faith. Chapter Four reads the novels The Cannibal Gal and The Puttermesser Papers as interpretations of the key Jewish concepts of tikkun olam, the repair of the world, and arevut, the Jewish notion of social responsibility.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University, 2005.School code: 0017
Colonialism, antisemitism, and Germans of Jewish descent in Imperial Germany, 1884--1912.
No full textThis work examines the connections between Imperial Germany's antisemitic and colonial movements from 1884 to 1912. It details the involvement with and investment in colonialism by Germany's major antisemitic political parties and explores the contributions of antisemitic ideologues and politicians to the creation and maintenance of Germany's overseas colonial states. I argue that the colonial era witnessed a subtle harnessing of the colonial project to the antisemitic cause. This occurred in three ways: through the deliberate merging of representations of Jews and black Africans by German antisemites, who rhetorically conflated the two in their newspapers, magazines, and other publications; through the cooption of public discussions of black Africans involving issues of race-mixing and citizenship rights by antisemitic politicians in the Reichstag, who advanced colonizing discourses that closely approximated racial antisemitism; and through the actions of antisemitic colonial explorers and enthusiasts like Carl Peters and Frieda von Bulow, who realized in the colonies their violent fantasies of racial domination. German antisemites influenced the colonial project, and colonialism provided antisemites with examples of, and opportunities for, racial subjugation.In addition, this dissertation examines the participation in German colonialism of men of Jewish descent and their relationships with pro-colonial, antisemitic forces. It focuses on Colonial Director Paul Kayser and State Secretary Bernhard Dernburg, individuals who suffered the barbs of antisemitism because of their Jewish heritage, but, nevertheless, headed the colonial administration in Berlin from 1890 to 1896 and 1906 to 1910, respectively. Their terms in office coincided with the high points in the political influence and parliamentary representation of the antisemitic political parties; as a result, both men united with pro-colonial antisemites against anti-colonial forces on the political left and center, where, ironically, the sharpest critics of antisemitism were found. Their participation in colonialism divided the antisemitic movement, forcing some to ponder the degree to which the proper ideological orientation might counteract a person's Jewish ancestry. Although their involvement in colonialism furnished them with strong patriotic credentials, it could not shield Kayser and Dernburg from antisemitism completely, failing, therefore, to solve the problems of assimilation.This study illuminates the complex relationship between German colonialism and antisemitism during the Kaiserreich era.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2005.School code: 0190
Disturbing boundaries: Developing Jewish feminist ethics with Buber, Levinas and Fackenheim.
No full textBy applying feminist criticism to the thought of Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas and Emil Fackenheim, this project outlines the ways in which the disciplines of modern Jewish philosophy, feminist theory, and Jewish feminist ethics might be enhanced through a critical encounter with each other. This research has three complimentary objectives: First, to disrupt and challenge the disciplinary and discursive boundaries between modern Jewish thought, feminist ethics and Jewish feminism. Second, to develop the methodological and theoretical frameworks necessary to articulate a systematic feminist critique of modern Jewish philosophical thought. Finally, to develop alternative feminist and Jewish feminist ethical models that will fruitfully benefit from a dialogue with modern Jewish thought. The Jewish feminist ethical models proffered here are mutually grounded in Jewish feminist theory and activism, modern Jewish thought, feminist theory and ethics, and Jewish women's historical and contemporary experiences. Each model is voiced as an imperative and is framed as an example of a principle that is derived from the analysis of one thinker's ethics. The development of Jewish feminist ethics of relationship, alterity, and presence are respectively elicited through an interrogation of the thought of Buber, Levinas and Fackenheim. Although each of the three models is a response to a particular thinker, they are self-referential, interdependent and constructive. They are constructive in two senses. First, from a feminist perspective, although there are real problems with each thinker's ethics, there are also significant opportunities to be located in those ethics. Working towards taking the best advantage of those opportunities, the principles suggested here build on common questions and themes that avail themselves of the resources offered by each of the disciplines that participate in this conversation. Second, because these models are organized through an intentional integration of implicated disciplines and experiences, and result from the effort to pinpoint opportunities for the development of Jewish feminist ethical strategies, these responses necessarily move beyond the scope of the original modern Jewish philosophical texts that generate them.Thesis (Ph.D.)--Concordia University (Canada), 2005.School code: 0228
Basel, Frankfurt und Berlin : 192 Jahre Famile und Bank auf Drey-Füssen.
No full textSpeech at the Frankfurt Rotary Club Nov. 14, 2005, on the history of the Dreyfus family and their banks in Basel, Frankfurt and Berlin. The family had a bank in Germany between 1868 and 1938; the bank in Basel has been founded in 1813 and remained without interruption a 6th generation family owned bank, uniquely in Basel.digitize
Annual Report
No full textFolder originally titled: Passages, Annual Report, 2005Digital ImageDigital finding aid