Kerstin Von Der Krone – författare

Die Wissenschaft des Judentums hat den Blick auf die jüdische Geschichte und Kultur grundlegend verändert. Dieses Buch untersucht erstmals die Zeitschriften dieser universitär randständigen und transnationalen jüdischen Wissenschaftsbewegung aus kommunikations- und wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Perspektive. Die systematische Betrachtung von mehr als dreißig vorwiegend deutschsprachigen Zeitschriften, die im Laufe des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts in ihrem Umfeld entstanden, dokumentiert deren funktionale Bedeutung. Als Praktik der Gelehrtenkommunikation und maßgebliche Instrumente der Präsentation und Repräsentation von Wissenschaft in Öffentlichkeit nahm die jüdische Wissenschaftspresse stets eine besondere Stellung ein. Als vorrangiger Aushandlungsrahmen eines jüdischen Wissenschaftsdiskurses erweisen sich diese Zeitschriften als umfassende Perspektive auf die Geschichte der Wissenschaft des Judentums und damit auf die vielfältigen Versuche, das Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Judentum zu bestimmen. Wissenschaftliches Erkenntnisstreben diente hier nicht allein dem Verständnis des historischen Judentums, sondern ganz im Sinne der Zeit der Gestaltung von Gegenwart und Zukunft.

What should one know in order to position oneself vis-à-vis other religions and confessions? What is religious knowledge and how should it be taught? This volume sheds light on educational media in Judaism and Christianity such as catechisms, children’s bibles, and sermons as well as Jewish and Protestant teacher training in 19th-century Germany and explores the methodological potentials of educational media as a source for (inter-)religious history. It reflects on broader processes of knowledge production and the impact of science and scholarship on religious edu-cation and knowledge production within Christian and Jewish contexts. The volume draws on an interdisciplinary conference that took place in 2018 and brought together scholars associated with two transdisciplinary research projects: The German-Israeli research group “Innovation through Tradition? Jewish Educational Media and Cultural Transformation in the Face of Moder-nity”, associated with the German Historical Institute Washington and Tel Aviv University (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG, 2014–2019), and the LOEWE research hub “Religious Positioning: Modalities and Constellations in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Contexts” at Goethe University Frankfurt and Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (funded by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art, 2015–2021).

What should one know in order to position oneself vis-à-vis other religions and confessions? What is religious knowledge and how should it be taught? This volume sheds light on educational media in Judaism and Christianity such as catechisms, children’s bibles, and sermons as well as Jewish and Protestant teacher training in 19th-century Germany and explores the methodological potentials of educational media as a source for (inter-)religious history. It reflects on broader processes of knowledge production and the impact of science and scholarship on religious edu-cation and knowledge production within Christian and Jewish contexts. The volume draws on an interdisciplinary conference that took place in 2018 and brought together scholars associated with two transdisciplinary research projects: The German-Israeli research group “Innovation through Tradition? Jewish Educational Media and Cultural Transformation in the Face of Moder-nity”, associated with the German Historical Institute Washington and Tel Aviv University (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG, 2014–2019), and the LOEWE research hub “Religious Positioning: Modalities and Constellations in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Contexts” at Goethe University Frankfurt and Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (funded by the Hessian Ministry of Science and Art, 2015–2021).