Search Results - German-Jewish

German Jewish Émigrés and US Invention by Moser, Petra, Voena, Alessandra, Waldinger, Fabian

“…Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized US science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the…”
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“Muscle” Yekkes? Multiple German-Jewish Masculinities in Palestine and Israel after 1933 by Farges, Patrick

“… This article, which is centered on the generation of those born between 1910 and 1925, explores an ongoing interest in German-Jewish multiple masculinities…”
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Space and Place in the German-Jewish Experience of the 1930s - Introduction by Ashkenazi, Ofer, Jünger, David, Siegel, Björn

“… In highlighting aspects of the German-Jewish experience during the 1930s, in Germany and in transit, it provides a starting point for the ensuing chapters' discussions of the relationships…”
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Driving social change: the power of public opinion - understanding the network dynamics in German-Jewish periodical culture, 1750s-1930s by Marten-Finnis, Susanne

“…The history of the Jewish press can be studied both as a mirror and as a motor. The former looks back on the relationship between history and culture. It lends…”
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Ludwig Ganz: a German-Jewish family business by Lipner, Sandra

“…Felix Ganz (1869-1944) developed his family's fabric and furniture store in Mainz into a public company with subsidiaries and branches across Europe and the…”
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Beyond politics? German Jewish refugees and racism in South Africa by Gilbert, Shirli

“… This article by Shirli Gilbert, which is part of a larger project, explores how German Jewish refugees' historical experiences of antisemitism informed their engagement with South African racism…”
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Revolutionary perspectives: German Jewish women and 1918–19 by Painter, Corinne

“… By choosing to become a revolutionary, individuals risked imprisonment or even death. For German Jewish women, who faced anti-Semitism in their daily lives, the risk was even greater. This article focuses on these forgotten female revolutionaries to uncover their roles, aims and motivations, and to contribute to a heterogeneous understanding of the revolution…”
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German-Jewish Esotericism: The Case of Meir Wiener’s Expressionist Kabbalah by Engel, Amir

“… Experts on German-Jewish history, however, still tend to describe German-Jewish culture as one formed around the ideals of ‘Bildung…”
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"The messiah waits for you!": agency and Zionism in the German-Jewish reception of a Talmudic tale by Shenhav, Ghilad H.

“…) among German-Jewish intellectuals in the early twentieth century. Thereby, the article offers a new perspective on the relations between messianism, Zionism, and human agency in German-Jewish thought…”
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YidTakNL Corpus: 18th–19th Centuries Regulations of the High German Jewish Community in Holland by Reshef, Ronny, Gutschow, Mirjam

“…The YidTakNL dataset is a thorough bibliography of Yiddish regulations and announcements by the Ashkenazi Jewish community in Amsterdam between 1708 and 1846…”
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A German‐Jewish refugee in Vichy France 1939–1941. Arno Motulsky's memoir of life in the internment camps at St. Cyprien and Gurs by Motulsky, Arno G.

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'Auf meinem Wege liegen Bücherleichen': Ernst A. Simon's book fragments on German-Jewish interactions (Theodor Fontane, Sigmund Freud, Heinrich Heine) by Rottmann, Mike

“… It delves into three book projects that Simon meticulously planned but could not complete. Posthumous materials reveal Simon's detailed engagement with prominent German…”
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Critiques of Theology: German-Jewish Intellectuals and the Religious Sources of Secular Thought , By Yotam Hotam by Sharvit, Gilad

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Survivor Testimonies on German-Jewish ‘Mixed Marriages’: Historiography, Potentials and Challenges by Hagen, Nikolaus

“…The history of ‘mixed marriages’ was for the longest time a rather neglected topic in Holocaust studies, but it has gained considerable attention since the…”
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An Ambivalent Turn: The Changing Image of the Talmud among Twentieth-Century German-Jewish Intellectuals by Maor, Zohar

“…Abstract This essay explores the attitudes of five prominent German-speaking intellectuals, active in the early twentieth century, to the Talmud: Martin Buber,…”
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David Zvi Hoffmann’s (1843–1921) commentary on the Pentateuch in the context of German-Jewish Orthodoxy’s struggle over the dogmatic principles of Torah by Dubrau, Alexander A., Seidler, Meir

“… – especially his approach to biblical criticism – in the hitherto unexplored context of German-Jewish…”
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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…”
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A Berlin Republic "Convivencia"? Ethnic Tensions in the Turkish-German-Jewish Triangle by Block, Nick

“…Since the 1990s, Turkish German and German Jewish literatures have presented Turks and Jews as forming a united minority front…”
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A guide for the perplexed. Exploring the German-Jewish archives at the National Library of Israel by Schirrmeister, Sebastian

“…The National Library of Israel holds more than 200 personal archives and collections of German-Jewish intellectuals from the 19 th and 20 th century…”
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Introduction: German-Jewish Agency in Times of Crisis, 1914–1938 by Jünger, David, Ullrich, Anna

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