German–Jewish Studies

Kerry Wallach is Associate Professor of German Studies and an affiliate of the Jewish Studies Program at Gettysburg College. She is the author of Passing Illusions: Jewish Visibility in Weimar Germany (University of Michigan Press, 2017) and numerous articles on German-Jewish literature, history, film, visual and consumer culture, and gender and sexuality. She serves on the Academic Advisory Board of the Leo Baeck Institute New York | Berlin and the editorial board of the book series German Jewish Cultures (Indiana University Press, supported by the Leo Baeck Institute London).

“German-Jewish Studies makes a valuable contribution to the field. The chapters are of a high standard across the board and the volume will help students and academics get a good sense of how things in the field of German-Jewish studies stand: how healthy it is, where its strengths lie, and where gaps have merged that new research and perspectives could fill” • Christian Bailey, Purchase College“It is an original and impressive interdisciplinary collection of essays that are a window to the future in German-Jewish Studies” • Frank R. Nicosia, University of Vermont

• List of FiguresForewordFrank MecklenburgPrefaceGerald WestheimerAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: German-Jewish Studies for the Twenty-First CenturyKerry Wallach and Aya ElyadaPart I: From the Early Modern Period to the 19th Century: Families, Texts, and Religious IdentitiesChapter 1. Le-Dor va-Dor or Discontinuities? Family Networks and the Transnational Turn in (German) Jewish Studies
Mirjam ThulinChapter 2. Old Yiddish Texts in German-Jewish Culture: Diachronic Translation and the (Re)turn to the PastAya ElyadaChapter 3. Orthodoxy as a German-Jewish LegacyJoshua ShanesPart II: Nation, Belonging, and Communities in the Early 20th CenturyChapter 4. Contested Contextualizations: Relating German-Jewish History to the History of ColonialismStefan VogtChapter 5. The Place of Yiddish in German-Jewish Studies
Nick BlockChapter 6. Metaphysik der Gottferne: Negativity, Intellectual Communities, and German-Jewish StudiesMatthew HandelmanPart III: Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in the 1930s and BeyondChapter 7. Art without Borders: Artist Rahel Szalit-Marcus and Jewish Visual Culture
Kerry WallachChapter 8. Woman, Scientist, and Jew: The Forced Migration of Berta Ottenstein
Stefanie MahrerThis chapter is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation.Chapter 9. A Global Network and Diaspora of German-Jewish Historians and Archives: Reappraising the Enduring Legacy of German Jewry
Jason LustigPart IV: After 1945: Memory, Coming to Terms with the Past, Place, and DisplacementChapter 10. Jewish Mourning in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Tending Individual Graves in Occupied Germany, 1945–1949
Stefanie FischerChapter 11. German-Jewish Fiction on the Holocaust: The Ethics of Narrative Causality in Edgar Hilsenrath’s Disfigured Narration
Corey L. TwitchellChapter 12. (Un-)Jewish Musical Spaces in Munich – Past and PresentTina FrühaufEpilogue: The Dynamic Relationship of “German” and “Jewish”Michael A. MeyerIndex