Leo Baeck Institute Year Book Volume 61 Issue 1 2016
Contents
Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin, David Rechter, and Daniel Wildmann
I German Jews in the Middle East
Introduction by Anja Siegemund and Menashe Anzi: German Jews in the Middle East: New Perspectives
Olivier Baisez: ‘Greater Palestine’ as a German-Zionist Idea before the Mandate Period
Rakefet Zalashik: The Middle East as a Temporary Haven: Jewish Medical Refugees in Turkey during the Second World War .
Guy Bracha: The Germans are Coming! The Jewish Community in Beirut Facing the Question of Jewish Immigration from Germany
II Survivors: Politics and Semantics of a Concept
Introduction by Alina Bothe and Markus Nesselrodt: Survivor: Towards a Conceptual History
Adam Stern: Rosenzweig’s Jesus (God, Corpse, Survivor)
Andree Michaelis: The Survivor as Writer and as Witness, or, Why Primo Levi Did not Want to Be Called a ‘Survivor’
Julia Menzel: Between ‘Nothing’ and ‘Something’: Narratives of Survival in H. G. Adler’s Scholarly and Literary Analysis of the Shoah
III German-Jewish Relations at Stake
Susan Nashman Fraiman: The Expressive Hostility of Moritz Oppenheim
Brian Feltman: Conceptions of Comradeship: Hans H. Pinkus and the Nazification of the Reichsvereinigung ehemaliger Kriegsgefangener
Eric Garcia McKinley: Reclaimed Pasts: Intermarriage and Remembrances of National Socialist Racial Stigmatization by Jewish and Non-Jewish Spouses and Mischling Children
Amos Morris-Reich: The ‘First Letters’ of Jacob Wahrman
Joseph Malherek (Essay Prize Winner 2016): Victor Gruen’s Retail Therapy: Exiled Jewish Communities and the Invention of the American Shopping Mall as a Post-War Ideal
IV Memoir
Introduction by Maimon Schwarzschild: Steven Schwarzschild and the Letters from Berlin
Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild: 29th December 1948. Quarterly Report to the World Union for Progressive Judaism
Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild: Report of the Events Resulting from the Showing of the British Film “Oliver Twist” in Berlin, February 19th—22nd
Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild: 4th February 1949. Report for the Month of January for the World Union for Progressive Judaism
Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild: Report by Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild for the World Union for Progressive Judaism. 24th October 1949
V List of Contributors
VI Index
Illustrations
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