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Contested Heritage
Get PDFIn the wake of the Nazi regime’s policies, European Jewish cultural property was dispersed, dislocated, and destroyed. Books, manuscripts, and artworks were either taken by their fleeing owners and were transferred to different places worldwide, or they fell prey to systematic looting and destruction under German occupation. Until today, a significant amount of items can be found in private and public collections in Germany as well as abroad with an unclear or disputed provenance. Contested Heritage. Jewish Cultural Property after 1945 illuminates the political and cultural implications of Jewish cultural property looted and displaced during the Holocaust. The volume includes seventeen essays, accompanied by newly discovered archival material and illustrations, which address a wide range of topics: from the shifting meaning and character of the objects themselves, the so-called object biographies, their restitution processes after 1945, conflicting ideas about their appropriate location, political interests in their preservation, actors and networks involved in salvage operations, to questions of intellectual and cultural transfer processes revolving around the moving objects and their literary resonances. Thus, it offers a fascinating insight into lesser-known dimensions of the aftermath of the Holocaust and the history of Jews in postwar Europe
Contested Heritage
Get PDFIn the wake of the Nazi regime’s policies, European Jewish cultural property was dispersed, dislocated, and destroyed. Books, manuscripts, and artworks were either taken by their fleeing owners and were transferred to different places worldwide, or they fell prey to systematic looting and destruction under German occupation. Until today, a significant amount of items can be found in private and public collections in Germany as well as abroad with an unclear or disputed provenance. Contested Heritage. Jewish Cultural Property after 1945 illuminates the political and cultural implications of Jewish cultural property looted and displaced during the Holocaust. The volume includes seventeen essays, accompanied by newly discovered archival material and illustrations, which address a wide range of topics: from the shifting meaning and character of the objects themselves, the so-called object biographies, their restitution processes after 1945, conflicting ideas about their appropriate location, political interests in their preservation, actors and networks involved in salvage operations, to questions of intellectual and cultural transfer processes revolving around the moving objects and their literary resonances. Thus, it offers a fascinating insight into lesser-known dimensions of the aftermath of the Holocaust and the history of Jews in postwar Europe
Memories of a zoologist: Reflections on the role of the archive in the production of knowledge and memory
Get PDFAt the Sovereign Turn: :International Law at the Hebrew University Law Faculty Early Years
No full textJüdische Identität zwischen Staatsbürgerschaft und Ethnizität 1933 - 1940
Get PDFNoch im ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts unterschied sich das assimilierte deutsche Judentum von den polnischen Juden, die als ethnische Minderheit getrennt von der polnischen Gesellschaft lebten. Mit der Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten in Deutschland änderte sich auch das vielfältige Beziehungsgeflecht zwischen deutschen und polnischen Juden.Yfaat Weiss untersucht diese Beziehungen von der religiösen über die soziale Ebene bis hin zur Politik internationaler jüdischer Organisationen und den zionistischen Bestrebungen zur Förderung der Einwanderung nach Palästina
Jerzy Tomaszewski, Auftakt zur Vernichtung. Die Vertreibung polnischer Juden aus Deutschland im Jahre 1938.
Get PDFZur Untermiete : über Metaphern von Existenzerfahrungen bei Hanna Krall
No full text"Die Untermieterin" ist Hanna Kralls erster und einziger Roman. International bekannt wurde die Autorin aber bereits 1977 durch die Veröffentlichung ihres Buches zum Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto. Auf Deutsch erschien es in der Bundesrepublik unter dem Titel "Schneller als der liebe Gott" und parallel in der DDR unter dem Titel "Dem Herrgott zuvorkommen", bevor es infolge der Zensur ihrer Schriften in Polen auch in Ostdeutschland zensiert wurde. Im Zentrum steht Marek Edelmann. Die von ihm, dem einzigen überlebenden Kommandeur des Aufstandes im Warschauer Ghetto, entworfenen Kategorien, allen voran seine Unterscheidung zwischen "hell" und "dunkel", übertrug Krall auf ihren Roman "Die Untermieterin", wo die Unterscheidung gar den ethischen Kern des Werks bildet
In Their Surroundings: Localizing Modern Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe
Get PDFFrom the second half of the nineteenth century through to World War II, Eastern Europe, especially the territories that formerly made up the Pale of Settlement in the Tsarist Empire, witnessed a Jewish cultural flowering that went hand-in-hand with a multifaceted literary productivity in the Hebrew and Yiddish languages. Accompanied and sometimes directly affected by the dramatic political ruptures of the era, many authors experimented with various modernist poetics in the context of a culturally and literarily closely interwoven milieu. This book presents for the first time some of the key figures of the era, including in each case a portrait of the author and a close reading of selected texts, including Yosef Ḥayim Brenner, Leah Goldberg, Moyshe Kulbak, and Deborah Vogel. Of particular interest here is the productive entanglement of cultures and literatures, of cultural contact and transfer, and the significance of space and place for the development of modern Jewish literatures
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