German–Jewish Studies

Next Generations

Kerry Wallach, Aya Elyada, Kerry Wallach, Aya Elyada

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781800736788
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Jewish History
• Index: History

As a field, German-Jewish Studies emphasizes the dangers of nationalism, monoculturalism, and ethnocentrism, while making room for multilingual and transnational perspectives with questions surrounding migration, refugees, exile, and precarity. Focussing on the relevance and utility of the field for the twenty-first century, German-Jewish Studies explores why studying and applying German-Jewish history and culture must evolve and be given further attention today. The volume brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars to reconsider the history of antisemitism—as well as intersections of antisemitism with racism and colonialism—and how connections to German Jews shed light on the continuities, ruptures, anxieties, and possible futures of German-speaking Jews and their legacies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. German-Jewish Studies for the Twenty-First Century
• Part I. From the Early Modern Period to the Nineteenth Century: Families, Texts, and Religious Identities
• Part II. Nation, Belonging, and Communities in the Early Twentieth Century
• Part III. Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in the 1930s and Beyond
• Part IV. After 1945: Memory, Coming to Terms with the Past, Place, and Displacement
• Index