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Informationen zum Autor Simone Lässig is Director of the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, and Professor of Modern History at Braunschweig University. She edits Publications of the German Historical Institute Series (Cambridge University Press), Studies in German History Series (Berghahn) and co-edits the journal Geschichte und Gesellschaft . Miriam Rürup is the Director of the Institute for the History of the German Jews in Hamburg. She is part of the Editorial Board of the Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts (Mohr-Siebeck) and edits the Hamburger Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Juden . She also co-edits the journal WerkstattGeschichte and is the Jewish history editor for H-Soz-u-Kult . She is currently at work on a book on the history of statelessness and world citizenship after World War II. Klappentext What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German history to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them both within and outside of Jewish communities! and what the implications have been across different eras and social contexts. Working from an expansive concept of "the spatial!" these contributions look not only at physical sites but at professional! political! institutional! and imaginative realms! as well as historical Jewish experiences of spacelessness. Together! they encompass spaces as varied as early modern print shops and Weimar cinema! always pointing to the complex intertwining of German and Jewish identity. Zusammenfassung This wide-ranging volume revisits both literal and metaphorical spaces in modern German history! working from an expansive concept of "the spatial" to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them! and what the implications have been in different eras and social contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Preface ¿Introduction: What Made a Space "Jewish"? Reconsidering a Category of Modern German History Simone Lässig and Miriam Rürup PART I: IMAGINATIONS: REMEBERANCE AND REPRESENTATION OF SPACES AND BOUNDARIES Chapter 1. ¿Of Sounds and Stones: The Jewish-Christian Contact Zone of a Swiss Village in the Nineteenth-Century Alexandra Binnenkade Chapter 2. ¿Imaginations of the Ghetto: Jewish Debates on Ghettos and Jewish Society in Late Nineteenth-Century Galicia Jürgen Heyde Chapter 3. ¿Modernization and Memory in German-Jewish History Nils Roemer Chapter 4. ¿From Place to Race and Back Again: The Jewishness of Psychoanalysis Revisited Anthony D. Kauders Chapter 5. Jewish Displacement and Simulation in the German Films of E. A. Dupont Ofer Ashkenazi¿ Chapter 6. Layered Pasts: The Judengasse in Frankfurt and Narrating German-Jewish History after the Holocaust Michael Meng¿ PART II: TRANSFORMATIONS: EMERGENCES, SHIFTS AND DISSOLUTIONS IN SPACES AND BOUNDARIES Chapter 7. ¿The Representation and Creation of Spaces through Print Media: ¿Some Insights from the History of the Jewish Press... Kerstin von der Krone Chapter 8. ¿Out of the Ghetto, Into the Middle Class: ¿Changing Perspectives on Jewish Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Germany - ¿The Case of Synagogues and Jewish Burial Grounds Andreas Gotzmann Chapter 9. Spatial Variations and Locations: Synagogues at the Intersection of Architecture, Town, and Imagination Sylvia Necker¿ Chapter 10. Jewish Philanthropy and the Formation of Modernity: Baron de Hirsch and His Vision of Jewish Spaces in European Societies Björn Siegel Chapter 11. Reconstruction...
