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New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History

Herausgegeben von: Cornelia Wilhelm

ISSN: 2192-9645

e-ISSN 2192-9653

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The peer-reviewed series seeks to provide an international platform for new approaches to the study of modern Jewish history. Covering the period from the Enlightenment to the 21st century, the series focuses on cutting-edge work in social, cultural, economic, and political history. It seeks to explore new avenues in the understanding of modern Jewries in their historical contexts, encouraging a multi-layered exploration of topics which transcend the analytical boundaries of ethnicity, nation, and religion. The series embraces monographs and challenging research-oriented anthologies dedicated to a deeper understanding of essential themes in the main fields of Jewish studies, such as Jewish thought, migration, biography, Israel and the Middle East, Holocaust studies, the history of memory, and identity.

Essential issues of Modern Jewish History are presented in new and focused perspectives to provide orientation in a time when the Jewish Studies are expanding to an unprecedented range of topics, periods, and approaches.
The intention of the series is to provide fresh outlooks and major reference tools for a Jewish Studies community searching for essential readings and innovative approaches in the 21st century.

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Cornelia Wilhelm, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies at Emory University, Atlanta.

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Buch 2019

Westerweel Group: Non-Conformist Resistance Against Nazi Germany

A Joint Rescue Effort of Dutch Idealists and Dutch-German Zionists

Hans Schippers

Band 11 in dieser Reihe

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The book about the Westerweel Group tells the fascinating story about the cooperation of some ten non-conformist Dutch socialists and a group of Palestine Pioneers who mostly had arrived in the Netherlands from Germany and Austria the late thirties. With the help of Joop Westerweel, the headmaster of a Rotterdam Montessori School, they found hiding places in the Netherlands. Later on, an escape route to France via Belgium was worked out. Posing as Atlantic Wall workers, the pioneers found their way to the south of France. With the help of the Armée Juive, a French Jewish resistance organization, some 70 pioneers reached Spain at the beginning of 1944. From here they went to Palestine. Finding and maintaining the escape route cost the members of the Westerweel Group dear. With some exceptions, all members of the group were arrested by the Germans. Joop Westerweel was executed in August 1944. Other members, both in the Netherlands and France, were send to German concentration camps, where some perished.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110582703
ISBN:: 9783110582703
ISBN:: 9783110580006
ISBN:: 9783110736823
ISBN:: 9783110580143
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Historische Epochen
Fachgebiet:: Zeitgeschichte bis 1945
Fachgebiet:: Zeit des Nationalsozialismus
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Holocaust
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Studien
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Zionismus
Fachgebiet:: Holocaust
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2022

Remembering the Holocaust in a Racial State

Holocaust Memory in South Africa from Apartheid to Democracy (1948–1994)

Roni Mikel-Arieli

Band 10 in dieser Reihe

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The lens of apartheid-era Jewish commemorations of the Holocaust in South Africa reveals the fascinating transformation of a diasporic community. Through the prism of Holocaust memory, this book examines South African Jewry and its ambivalent position as a minority within the privileged white minority. Grounded in research in over a dozen archives, the book provides a rich empirical account of the centrality of Holocaust memorialization to the community’s ongoing struggle against global and local antisemitism. Most of the chapters focus on white perceptions of the Holocaust and reveals the tensions between the white communities in the country regarding the place of collective memories of suffering in the public arena. However, the book also moves beyond an insular focus on the South African Jewish community and in very different modality investigates prominent figures in the anti-apartheid struggle and the role of Holocaust memory in their fascinating journeys towards freedom.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110715545
ISBN:: 9783110715545
ISBN:: 9783110715637
ISBN:: 9783110715255
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Afrika
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Holocaust
Fachgebiet:: Public History
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Studien
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Holocaust
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2017

American Jewry and the Re-Invention of the East European Jewish Past

Markus Krah

Band 9 in dieser Reihe

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The postwar decades were not the “golden era” in which American Jews easily partook in the religious revival, liberal consensus, and suburban middle-class comfort. Rather it was a period marked by restlessness and insecurity born of the shock about the Holocaust and of the unprecedented opportunities in American society. American Jews responded to loss and opportunity by obsessively engaging with the East European past. The proliferation of religious texts on traditional spirituality, translations of Yiddish literature, historical essays , photographs and documents of shtetl culture, theatrical and musical events, culminating in the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof, illustrate the grip of this past on post-1945 American Jews. This study shows how American Jews reimagined their East European past to make it usable for their American present. By rewriting their East European history, they created a repertoire of images, stories, and ideas that have shaped American Jewry to this day.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110499438
ISBN:: 9783110499438
ISBN:: 9783110655841
ISBN:: 9783110499926
ISBN:: 9783110497144
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Osteuropa
Fachgebiet:: Nordamerika
Fachgebiet:: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte und Kultur
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Studien
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Diaspora
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch Open Access 2018

Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe

Shared and Comparative Histories

Tobias Grill

Band 8 in dieser Reihe

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For many centuries Jews and Germans were economically and culturally of significant importance in East-Central and Eastern Europe. Since both groups had a very similar background of origin (Central Europe) and spoke languages which are related to each other (German/Yiddish), the question arises to what extent Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe share common historical developments and experiences. This volume aims to explore not only entanglements and interdependences of Jews and Germans in Eastern Europe from the late middle ages to the 20th century, but also comparative aspects of these two communities. Moreover, the perception of Jews as Germans in this region is also discussed in detail.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110492484
ISBN:: 9783110492484
ISBN:: 9783110489378
ISBN:: 9783110489774
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Osteuropa
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Deutsch-jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Studien
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Diaspora
Fachgebiet:: Deutsch-jüdische Geschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch Open Access 2014

The World Jewish Congress during the Holocaust

Between Activism and Restraint

Zohar Segev

Band 7 in dieser Reihe

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Drawing on hitherto neglected archival materials, Zohar Segev sheds new light on the policy of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) during the Holocaust. Contrary to popular belief, he can show that there was an impressive system of previously unknown rescue efforts. Even more so, there is evidence for an alternative pattern for modern Jewish existence in the thinking and policy of the World Jewish Congress. WJC leaders supported the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine but did not see it as an end in itself. They strove to establish a Jewish state and to rehabilitate Diaspora Jewish life, two goals they saw as mutually complementary. The efforts of the WJC are put into the context of the serious difficulties facing the American Jewish community and its representative institutions during and after the war, as they tried to act as an ethnic minority within American society.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110320268
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032002-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-032026-8
ISBN:: 9783110376951
ISBN:: 9783110554021
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Antisemitismus
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Studien
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Holocaust
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2015

Jewish Identities in East and Southeast Asia

Singapore, Manila, Taipei, Harbin, Shanghai, Rangoon, and Surabaya

Jonathan Goldstein

Band 6 in dieser Reihe

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The Jewish communities of East and Southeast Asia display an impressive diversity. Jonathan Goldstein’s book covers the period from 1750 and focuses on seven of the area’s largest cities and trading emporia: Singapore, Manila, Taipei, Harbin, Shanghai, Rangoon, and Surabaya. The book isolates five factors which contributed to the formation of transnational, multiethnic, and multicultural identity: memory, colonialism, regional nationalism, socialism, and Zionism. It emphasizes those factors which preserved specifically Judaic aspects of identity.
Drawing extensively on interviews conducted in all seven cities as well as governmental, institutional, commercial, and personal archives, censuses, and cemetery data, the book provides overviews of communal life and intimate portraits of leading individuals and families. Jews were engaged in everything from business and finance to revolutionary activity. Some collaborated with the Japanese while others confronted them on the battlefield. The book attempts to treat fully and fairly the wide spectrum of Jewish experience ranging from that of the ultra-Orthodox to the completely secular.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110351507
ISBN:: 9783110350692
ISBN:: 9783110351507
ISBN:: 9783110395464
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Diaspora
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Studien
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Diaspora
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2013

East European Jews in Switzerland

Tamar Lewinsky, Sandrine Mayoraz

Band 5 in dieser Reihe

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During the era of Jewish mass migration from Eastern Europe (from the 1880s until the First World War), Switzerland played an important role in absorbing immigrants. Though located at the periphery of the main migration routes, the federal state with its liberal policies on foreigners became a key destination for students, revolutionaries, and travelers. The micro-studies and more general papers of this volume approach the topic in its transnational, local, linguistic, gendered, and ideological dimensions and from various disciplinary angles. They interweave and facilitate a novel take on the transitory spatial history and the Lebenswelt of East European Jews in Switzerland. Topics of this volume range – among others – from the location of Switzerland on the map of East European Jewish politics (Bundism, Socialism, Yiddishism, Zionism), conflicting performative cultures of Jewish and Russian revolutionaries, the Swiss Lehr- and Wanderjahre of the Jewish public intellectual Meir Wiener, the impact of Geneva on the Zionist Hebrew writer Ben Ami, the Russian-Jewish students’ colonies in Berne and Zurich and questions of individuals' integration and acculturation.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110300710
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030069-7
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030071-0
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Westeuropa
Fachgebiet:: Osteuropa
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Exilgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Studien
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Diaspora
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2013

Jewish Identity in the Reconstruction South

Ambivalence and Adaptation

Anton Hieke

Band 4 in dieser Reihe

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How far can Jewish life in the South during Reconstruction (1863–1877) be described as German in a period of American Jewry traditionally referred to as ‘German Jewish’ in historiography? To what extent were Jewish immigrants in the South acculturated to Southern identity and customs? Anton Hieke discusses the experience of Jewish immigrants in the Reconstruction South as exemplified by Georgia and the Carolinas. The book critically explores the shifting identities of German Jewish immigrants, their impact on congregational life, and of their identity as ‘Southerners’. The author draws from demographic data of six thousand individuals representing the complete identifiable Jewish minority in Georgia, South and North Carolina from 1860 to 1880. Reconstruction, it is concluded, has to be seen as a formative period for the region’s Jewish congregations and Reform Judaism. The study challenges existing views that are claiming German Jews were setting the standard for Jewish life in this period and were perceived as distinct from Jews of another background. Rather Hieke arrives at a conclusion that takes into consideration the migratory movement between North and South.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110277746
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027769-2
ISBN:: 978-3-11-027774-6
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Nordamerika
Fachgebiet:: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Deutsch-jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Studien
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Diaspora
Fachgebiet:: Deutsch-jüdische Geschichte
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch 2014

Nazi Crimes against Jews and German Post-War Justice

The West German Judicial System During Allied Occupation (1945–1949)

Edith Raim

Band 3 in dieser Reihe

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Of all victims of Nazi persecution, German Jews had to suffer the Nazi yoke for the longest time. Throughout the Third Reich, they were exposed to anti-Jewish propaganda, discrimination, anti-Semitic laws and increasingly to outrages and offences by non-Jewish Germans. While the International Military Tribunal and the subsequent American Military Tribunals at Nuremberg dealt with a variety of Nazi crimes according to international law, these courts did not consider themselves cognizant in adjudicating wrongdoings against German citizens and those who lost German citizenship based on the so-called “Nuremberg laws,” such as Germany’s Jews. Until recently, scholarship failed to explore this task of the German judiciary in more detail. Edith Raim fills this gap by showing the extent of the crimes committed against Jews beyond the traditionally known facts and by elucidating how the West German administration of justice was reconstructed under Allied supervision.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110300666
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030057-4
ISBN:: 978-3-11-030066-6
ISBN:: 9783110554014
ISBN:: 9783110395693
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Holocaust
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Studien
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Holocaust
Verlag:: De Gruyter Oldenbourg

Buch 2012

Jewish Integration in the German Army in the First World War

David J. Fine

Band 2 in dieser Reihe

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In Jewish Integration in the German Army in the First World War David J. Fine offers a surprising portrayal of Jewish officers in the German army as integrated and comfortably identified as both Jews and Germans. Fine explores how both Judaism and Christianity were experienced by Jewish soldiers at the front, making an important contribution to the study of the experience of religion in war. Fine shows how the encounter of German Jewish soldiers with the old world of the shtetl on the eastern front tested both their German and Jewish identities. Finally, utilizing published and unpublished sources including letters, diaries, memoirs, military service records, press accounts, photographs, drawings and tomb stone inscriptions, the author argues that antisemitism was not a primary factor in the war experience of Jewish soldiers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110268164
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026796-9
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026816-4
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Deutsch-jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Militärgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Studien
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Deutsch-jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Judaistik
Fachgebiet:: Neuzeit
Verlag:: De Gruyter

Buch Open Access 2012

Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe

Survival, Co-Existence, and Identity in a Multi-Ethnic City

Irene Eber

Band 1 in dieser Reihe

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The study discusses the history of the Jewish refugees within the Shanghai setting and its relationship to the two established Jewish communities, the Sephardi and Russian Jews. Attention is also focused on the cultural life of the refugees who used both German and Yiddish, and on their attempts to cope under Japanese occupation after the outbreak of the Pacific War. Differences of identity existed between Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, religious and secular, aside from linguistic and cultural differences. The study aims to understand the exile condition of the refugees and their amazing efforts to create a semblance of cultural life in a strange new world.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110268188
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026797-6
ISBN:: 978-3-11-026818-8
ISBN:: 9783110485684
Fachgebiet:: Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Regionale und nationale Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Europa
Fachgebiet:: Osteuropa
Fachgebiet:: Themen der Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Holocaust
Fachgebiet:: Exilgeschichte
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Studien
Fachgebiet:: Jüdische Geschichte
Fachgebiet:: Diaspora
Verlag:: De Gruyter