Simone Lassig is Director of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, and Professor of Modern History at Braunschweig University. She edits two book series-"Publications of the German Historical Institute" (Cambridge University Press) and "Studies in German History" (Berghahn Books)-and co-edits the journal Geschichte und Gesellschaft. Miriam Rurup is Director of the Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg. She is part of the Editorial Board for the series "Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts" (Mohr Siebeck) and edits the series "Hamburger Beitrage zur Geschichte der deutschen Juden" (Wallstein Verlag). She also co-edits the journal WerkstattGeschichte and is the Jewish history editor for H-Soz-u-Kult. She is currently at work on a book on the history of statelessness and world citizenship after World War II.

"The range of approaches and the sheer breadth of spaces and texts treated here-synagogues and cemeteries, German landscapes, Freud and his reception, philanthropy, urban ghettos, photography, and museums-provide a compelling and rich window into Jewish spaces in their historical context." * Barbara Mann, Jewish Theological Seminary of America

• List of FiguresPrefaceIntroduction: What Made a Space "Jewish"? Reconsidering a Category of Modern German HistorySimone Lassig and Miriam RurupPART I: IMAGINATIONS: RMEMEBERANCE AND REPRESENTATION OF SPACES AND BOUNDARIESChapter 1. Of Sounds and Stones: The Jewish-Christian Contact Zone of a Swiss Village in the Nineteenth-CenturyAlexandra BinnenkadeChapter 2. Imaginations of the Ghetto: Jewish Debates on Ghettos and Jewish Society in Late Nineteenth-Century GaliciaJurgen HeydeChapter 3. Modernization and Memory in German-Jewish HistoryNils RoemerChapter 4. From Place to Race and Back Again: The Jewishness of Psychoanalysis RevisitedAnthony D. KaudersChapter 5. Jewish Displacement and Simulation in the German Films of E. A. DupontOfer AshkenaziChapter 6. Layered Pasts: The Judengasse in Frankfurt and Narrating German-Jewish History after the HolocaustMichael MengPART II: TRANSFORMATIONS: EMERGENCES, SHIFTS AND DISSOLUTIONS IN SPACES AND BOUNDARIESChapter 7. The Representation and Creation of Spaces through Print Media: Some Insights from the History of the Jewish Press...Kerstin von der KroneChapter 8. Out of the Ghetto, Into the Middle Class: Changing Perspectives on Jewish Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Germany - The Case of Synagogues and Jewish Burial GroundsAndreas GotzmannChapter 9. Spatial Variations and Locations: Synagogues at the Intersection of Architecture, Town, and ImaginationSylvia NeckerChapter 10. Jewish Philanthropy and the Formation of Modernity: Baron de Hirsch and His Vision of Jewish Spaces in European Societies Bjoern SiegelChapter 11. Reconstruction Jewishness, Deconstructing the Past: Reading Berlin's Scheunenviertel over the Course of the Twentieth CenturyAnne-Christin SassPART III: PRACTICES: NEGOTIATING, EXPERIENCING, AND APPROPRIATING SPACES AND BOUNDARIESChapter 12. A Hybrid Space of Communication: Hebrew Printing in Jessnitz, 1718-1745Dirk SadowskiChapter 13. Faith in Residence: Jewish Spatial Practice in the Urban ContextJoachim SchloerChapter 14. Photography as Jewish SpaceMichael BerkowitzChapter 15. Jews, Foreigners, and the Space of the Postwar Economy: The Case of Munich's MoehlstrasseAnna HolianChapter 16. Creating a Bavarian Space for Rapprochement: The Jewish Museum MunichRobin OstowChapter 17. Real Imaginary Spaces and Places: Virtual, Actual, and OtherwiseRuth Ellen GruberBibliographyIndex