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> From: "Dani Kranz" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 29 June 2010 13:03:16 BST
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Diaspora: Seeking Sources on Jewish Continuity, 'Mixed
> Marriage', European Jewish Kinship etc.
>
> Dear All
>
> I am involved in the development of two projects.
>
> 1. The first project concerns children aged 7 to 14 in present day
> Switzerland who have one Jewish, one non-Jewish parent. We are
> exploring the prepubescent identity configurations of these children.
> For the project am looking for four kinds of sources:
> a) general sources on continuity and tradition within mixed-marriages,
> b) sources specific to Jewish continuity and Jewish tradition,
> c) general sources on Jews in Switzerland (ethnographic, historical,
> autobiographical etc).
> d) sources on European and Jewish European kinship (if anybody knows
> sources specific to Switzerland that would of course be great!).
> I have retrieved a number of sources concerning these issues in the US
> (from about 1950 onwards, when these became issues) and for the UK.
> There is also some ethnographic data on the continuity and
> transmission of tradition of different Jewish groups in Israel.
>
> 2. The second project concerns the Jawne in Cologne. It is historical
> in focus though the research output is aimed at designing teaching
> materials that raise general issues concerning the transmission of
> culture, reactions to discrimination, ideas of continuity and
> tradition.
> The Jawne was the first (and only) Jewish grammar school in the
> Rhineland. It was shut for good in 1942. Founded in the late 1900s,
> the Jawne came into being at a time when Jewish continuity became an
> issue due to the forces of modernity. Originally it formed part of the
> complex of Adass Jeshurun, the (then) orthodox community of the city.
> The original student body was recruited from orthodox families. Due to
> the growing anti-Semitism, the rise of the Nazis and its foothold in
> the general population, a number of Jewish children from secular,
> non-practicing, or liberally practicing families joined the Jawne from
> about 1930 onwards. I have read through transcripts, and for these
> children the orthodox Judaism of the Jawne was already a break with
> 'tradition.' Another batch of children joined when Jewish children
> were expelled from German schools. For these children the break with
> their 'tradition' was an even stronger one. Children of Eastern
> European descent felt the break wit!
> h tradition as well - Yiddiskeit as conveyed by their families didn't
> form part of the ethos of the Jawne, one teacher remarked in the 1930s
> that: "there are only two German citizens in this class."
> An issues which remains to be explored is well the one of 'mixedness'
> - while statistics for Cologne's Jewish population don't exist,
> statistics for Hamburg (Meiering 1998) indicate a high number of mixed
> marriages. The interview data with the pupils gives away that there
> were a number of mixed children in the Jawne.
> Does anybody know contemporary, historical or present sources on the
> idea of Jewish 'tradition' or 'continuity' specific to Germany? I
> would also appreciate sources that allow for a comparative approach.
>
> Sources can be in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Hebrew
> and Yiddish. I am more than happy to mail the bibliography to all list
> members who are interested.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Dani Kranz
>
> Dr. Dani Kranz
> Social Anthropologist
> Phone: +49 179 201 3064
> Email: [log in to unmask]
>
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