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Felix Rosenberg—Student, Writer, Traveller by Falksohn, Howard, Norpoth, Anna

“…Abstract The letters written by Felix Rosenberg (1865–1923) to his family, which were donated to the Wiener Holocaust Library in 2011, describe an assimilated…”
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Berlin in Cincinnati — Scenes from the End of the ‘Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums’ by Steilen, Felix

“…Abstract A vital centre of Jewish higher learning, the Berlin ‘Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums’ (1872–1942) is part of a larger story about the…”
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Managing Global Transit: International Jewish Aid Organizations and Informal Networks Between Berlin, Harbin, Bombay, and Shanghai, 1938–1939 by Hagmann, Sarah

“…Abstract This article uses the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau in Harbin, Manchukuo, and its manager Meyer Birman (1891–1955) as a starting point…”
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Transit Materialities: Following Objects and Infrastructures by Augustin, Anna-Carolin, Liebisch-Gümüş, Carolin

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Global Transit, Imperial Performativity, and Survival: European Jewish Refugees in the Philippines Under US Tutelage and Japanese Occupation, 1937–1946 by Pegelow Kaplan, Thomas

“…Abstract By late 1941, some 1,300 Jews had escaped from National Socialist-controlled Europe to the Philippines. This essay problematizes the existing…”
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Navigating Liminality: Jewish Refugees in Global Transit by Lässig, Simone, Steinberg, Swen

“…Abstract This special section presents transit as a research concept and demonstrates its analytical potential in six case studies. The contributions focus on…”
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Preface by Gelbin, Cathy S, Rechter, David

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Melzer and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Anna Seghers’s GDR novel Die Entscheidung (1959) by Rupprecht, Caroline

“…Abstract This article is about German-Jewish author Anna Seghers (1900–1983), who spent half of her productive life in the German Democratic Republic (East…”
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Chongqing Transit: Central European Jewish Refugees in China’s Wartime Capital and Interior by Cheng, Kimberly

“…While most central European Jewish refugees who transited through China during the Second World War lived in Shanghai, some found refuge in other Chinese…”
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Holocaust Refugees in Bolivia: Immigration Through a Postcolonial and Microhistorical Lens by Gruner-Domić, Sandra

“…Abstract Jewish refugees who escaped the Holocaust by emigrating to Bolivia formed a vibrant Jewish community of around 20,000 for two decades and maintained a…”
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Diasporic (Dis)Connections and In-betweennesses: German-Jewish Refugees and Indians in Kenya by Eppelsheimer, Natalie

“…Abstract This contribution describes various forms of in-betweenness lived by German-Jewish refugees in transit in colonial Kenya. It examines the…”
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‘I think he will be able to adjust’. Letters of Recommendation Accompanying Jewish Refugees in Transit during National Socialism by Gerlach, Lisa

“…Abstract Letters of recommendation are a specific subgenre of professional writing that both have their own history and shape the histories of the people they…”
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In Memoriam: Professor Peter Pulzer by Rechter, David

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‘Budapest’s Gift to the Movies’: Franziska Gaal’s Film Career in 1930s Europe and Hollywood by Dämon, Hanja

“…Abstract Hungarian-born actress Franziska (or Franciska) Gaal was an interwar star whose film career spanned different countries and continents. Contemporary…”
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Gender in Martin Buber’s Hasidic Tales by Shonkoff, Sam S B

“…Abstract Martin Buber’s anthologies of Hasidic tales remain some of his most widely read writings, but few have studied them intertextually vis-à-vis the…”
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Preface by Gelbin, Cathy S, Rechter, David

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Off-Translation: Bertha Pappenheim’s Yiddish-German by Johnson, Matthew

“…Abstract This article centres on Bertha Pappenheim’s translations of Old Yiddish literature, with a particular focus on Die Memoiren der Glückel von Hameln,…”
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The Autobiography of Willy Katzenstein. Part Two, 1933–1939 by Hamlyn, Susan

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The Quest for the Philosophers’ Stone: Alois von Sonnenfels’ ‘ אור נגה— Splendor Lucis’, Vienna 1745 by Evers, Renate

“…Abstract This article examines אור נגה—Splendor Lucis, oder Glantz des Lichts, a bilingual German-Hebrew alchemical work written in 1745 by Alois von…”
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On the Humanism of the Religious Idea: Ludwig Philippson’s Confrontation with Christianity by Jungheim, Elias S

“…Abstract This article is the first to address the series of lectures given by Rabbi Ludwig Philippson in Magdeburg in the course of 1847. There, he presented…”
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