Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion

Jason Crouthamel is an Associate Professor of History at Grand Valley State University. His publications include An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality and German Soldiers in the First World War (2014), The Great War and German Memory: Society, Politics and Psychological Trauma (2009) and two collections coedited with Peter Leese: Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War and Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After (both 2016).

“All in all, the collection succeeds in its primary aim, to present fresh and innovative perspectives on (mainly) German Jewish wartime experiences and introduce newly discovered sources and analytical tools that highlight their diversity, in the editors’ words, ‘along gender, political, geographic, social, and subjective lines’. Perhaps even more importantly, as Derek Penslar puts it in his thoughtful afterword, it represents an important contribution towards a ‘unified field of modern German and Jewish history’.” • Journal of Austrian Studies“By exploring diverse narratives in various forms, including literature and film, these twelve excellent essays add nuance and complexity to the mainstream narrative of the Jewish Great War experience. The primary goal of this collection is to go beyond the Judenzählung of 1916, the ‘Jewish count’ of war contribution, and to challenge the belief that anti-Semitism was the main ordeal dealt with among central European Jews.” • First World War Studies“The editors are to be commended for going beyond traditional historical concerns to include literature, film and even psychology…[This volume]is an important collection of essays which mostly deal with German Jews in the First World War. It … does a masterful job at reminding us that German Jews were indeed part of the German nation, however defined, before the Nazis.” • Social History“This interdisciplinary collection of essays is a penetrating and deeply researched analysis of how the horrors of World War I shaped, in contradictory and surprising ways, Jewish life. It is an impressive achievement that will stand alongside some of the best scholarship in the field.” • Eugene M. Avrutin, University of Illinois“Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion is truly at the forefront of research in the field. It approaches its subject in an original, sophisticated and intellectually riveting manner. Coherent and convincing throughout, the book manages to surprise and engage, all the while expanding our understanding of what it meant to be a Jew during World War I.” • Ilse Josepha Lazaroms, Central European University“This extraordinary volume advances the historiography of German-speaking Jews in World War I to a higher level, pushing past the now dated debates about Jewish war service and assimilation that dominated the field for decades. A rich compilation of cutting-edge research, Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion demonstrates the diversity and heterogeneity of Jewish war experiences and postwar memories. Its authors interrogate Jewish difference through a range of compelling, interdisciplinary approaches and comparative frameworks, unearthing new material and reexamining familiar sources from fresh perspectives. An indispensable collection for readers interested in trauma and its linkages with war, gender, Jewishness, and media and for scholars of Jewish history, German studies, and war and society in the twentieth century.” • Paul Lerner, University of Southern California

• List of Figures and TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionJason Crouthamel, Michael Geheran, Tim Grady, and Julia Barbara KöhnePART I: AT THE MARGINS: MINORITIES AND THE MILITARYChapter 1. Hopes and Disappointments: German and French Jews during the Wars of 1870/71 and 1914–1918Christine G. KrügerChapter 2. Habsburg Jews and the Imperial Army before and during the First World WarTamara ScheerChapter 3. The ‘Stepchildren’ of the Kaiserreich: Alsatians in the German Army during the First World WarDevlin M. ScofieldPART II: RELATIONS: CONTESTED IDENTITIES DURING THE FIRST WORLD WARChapter 4. Rethinking Jewish Front ExperiencesMichael GeheranChapter 5. "Being German" and "Being Jewish" during the First World War: An Ambivalent Transnational Relationship?Sarah PanterChapter 6. In the Shadow of Antisemitism: Jewish Women and the German Home Front during the First World WarAndrea A. SinnChapter 7. The Social Engagement of Jewish Women in Berlin during the First World WarSabine HankChapter 8. “My Comrades Are for the Most Part On My Side”: Comradeship Between Non-Jewish and German Jewish Front Soldiers in the First World WarJason CrouthamelPART III: REPRESENTATION: THE CULTURE OF WARChapter 9. Blind Spots and Jewish Heroines: Refashioning the Galician War Experience in 1920s Hollywood and BerlinPhilipp StiasnyChapter 10. Agnon on the Home Front in In Mr Lublin’s Store: Hebrew Fiction of the First World WarGlenda AbramsonPART IV: CONTESTED MEMORIES: WORKING THROUGH THE LEGACIES OF WARChapter 11. Paper Psyches: On the Psychography of the Front Soldier According to Paul PlautJulia Barbara KöhneChapter 12. Narrative Negotiations: Interpreting the Cultural Position of Jews in National(social)ist War Narratives from 1914 to 1945Florian BrücknerAfterword: German Jewry and the First World War: Beyond Polemic and ApologeticDerek Jonathan PenslarIndex