@article{Krah2021,
  author    = {Krah, Markus},
  title     = {Exporting Jewish Ideas from Germany (via Palestine) to America},
  series = {PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany},
  number    = {27},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-520-0},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-53304},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-533049},
  pages     = {101 -- 115},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {When he founded Schocken Books in 1945, department store magnate, philanthropist, and publisher Salman Schocken (1877-1959) called his new American publishing business an imitation of its German predecessor, which had functioned from 1931 until 1938. He intended it to replicate the success of the Berlin Schocken Verlag by spiritually fortifying a Jewish community uncertain in its identity. The new company reflected the transnational transfer of people, ideas, and texts between Germany, Palestine/Israel, and the United States. Its success and near-failure raise questions about transnationalism and American Jewish culture: Can a culture be imposed on a population which has its own organs and agencies of cultural production? Had American Jewish culture developed organically to the specific place where several million Jews found themselves and according to uniquely American cultural patterns? The answers suggest that the concepts of transnationalism and cultural transfer complement each other as tools to analyze American Jewry in its American and Jewish contexts.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{DinerKrah2021,
  author    = {Diner, Hasia and Krah, Markus},
  title     = {Foreign Entanglements},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien},
  number    = {27},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-520-0},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-53276},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-532761},
  pages     = {13 -- 21},
  year      = {2021},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ThulinKrah2020,
  author    = {Thulin, Mirjam and Krah, Markus},
  title     = {The history of Jewish families in early modern and modern times},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture},
  volume    = {2020},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture},
  number    = {26},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-493-7},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-48529},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-485297},
  pages     = {13 -- 23},
  year      = {2020},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KrahThulin2019,
  author    = {Krah, Markus and Thulin, Mirjam},
  title     = {Which Works in Jewish Studies Should Urgently Be (Re-)Translated?},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture},
  volume    = {2019},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture},
  number    = {25},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-468-5},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-47142},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-471426},
  pages     = {147 -- 155},
  year      = {2019},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Gruenbaum2019,
  author    = {Gruenbaum, Caroline},
  title     = {King Arthur's Jewish Knights: The Many Faces of Medieval Hebrew Literature},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture},
  volume    = {2019},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture},
  number    = {25},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-468-5},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-47141},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-471413},
  pages     = {137 -- 144},
  year      = {2019},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{HolzmanZuckermann2019,
  author    = {Holzman, Gitit and Zuckermann, Ghil'ad},
  title     = {Tanakh Ram: Translating the Hebrew Bible into Israeli},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture},
  volume    = {2019},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture},
  number    = {25},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-468-5},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-47139},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-471395},
  pages     = {105 -- 122},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {The Ram Bible (Tanakh Ram) is a recently-published Bible edition printed in two columns: the right-hand column features the original biblical Hebrew text and the lefthand column features the translation of the Bible into a high-register literary Israeli (Reclaimed Hebrew). The Ram Bible edition has gained impressive academic and popular attention. This paper looks at differences between academics, teachers, students, media personalities and senior officials in the education system, regarding their attitude to the Ram Bible. Our study reveals that Bible teachers and students who make frequent use of this edition understand its contribution to comprehending the biblical language, stories, and ideas. Opponents of Ram Bible are typically administrators and theoretician scholars who advocate the importance of teaching the Bible but do not actually teach it themselves. We argue that the fundamental difference between biblical Hebrew and Israeli makes the Hebrew Bible incomprehensible to native Israeli speakers. We explain the advantages of employing tools such as the Ram Bible.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Schramm2019,
  author    = {Schramm, Netta},
  title     = {Radical Translation as Transvaluation},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture},
  volume    = {2019},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture},
  number    = {25},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-468-5},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-47137},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-471374},
  pages     = {73 -- 87},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Scholars of modern Jewish thought explore the hermeneutics of "translation" to describe the transference of concepts between discourses. I suggest a more radical approach - translation as transvaluation - is required. Eschewing modern tests of truth such as "the author would have accepted it" and "the author should have accepted it," this radical form of translation is intentionally unfaithful to original meanings. However, it is not a reductionist reading or a liberating text. Instead, it is a persistent squabble depending on both source and translation for sustenance. Exploring this paradigm entails a review of three expositions of the Korah biblical narrative; three readings dedicated to keeping an eye on current events: (1) Tsene-rene (Prague, 1622), biblical prose; (2) Yaldei Yisrael Kodesh, (Tel Aviv, 1973), a secular Zionist reworking of Tsene-rene; and (3) The Jews are Coming (Israel, 2014-2017) a satirical television show.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Drori2019,
  author    = {Drori, Danielle},
  title     = {A Translator against Translation},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture},
  volume    = {2019},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture},
  number    = {25},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-468-5},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-44591},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-445912},
  pages     = {43 -- 56},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {This article explores an instructive case of translation critique against the background of the rise of Zionism in Europe at the turn of the previous century. It seeks to answer the question: Why did David Frishman, one of the most prolific Hebrew writers and translators of the late 1890s and early 1900s, criticize Vladimir Jabotinsky's Russian translation of Hayim Nahman Bialik's Hebrew poems? Both Bialik and Jabotinsky were major figures in the field of Hebrew culture and Zionist politics in the early 1900s, while Frishman generally shunned partisan activism and consistently presented himself as devoted solely to literature. Frishman perceived literature, nevertheless, as a political arena, viewing translation, in particular, as a locus of ideological debate. Writing from the viewpoint of a political minority at a time in which the Hebrew translation industry in Europe gained momentum, Frishman deemed translation a tool for cementing cultural hierarchies. He anticipated later analyses of the act and products of translation as reflective of intercultural tensions. The article suggests, more specifically, that it was Frishman's view of the Hebrew Bible that informed his "avant-garde" stance on translation.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Faierstein2019,
  author    = {Faierstein, Morris M.},
  title     = {The Melits Yosher and the Audience for Early Modern Yiddish Literature},
  series = {PaRDeS: Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture},
  volume    = {2019},
  journal   = {PaRDeS: Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien = Transformative Translations in Jewish History and Culture},
  number    = {25},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-468-5},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-44590},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-445900},
  pages     = {23 -- 42},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Rabbi Jacob ben Isaac of Yanova (d. 1623) is best known as the author of the Ze'enah U-Re'enah; the Melits Yosher ("Intercessor before God") is one of his lesser known works. It was first published in Lublin in 1622 and reprinted once in Amsterdam in 1688. Like the Ze'enah U-Re'enah, it was a Torah commentary, but composed for men who had some yeshivah education, but who could not continue their studies. The commentary on the Song of Songs by Isaac Sulkes is another Yiddish work that addresses the same audience as the Melits Yosher. The purpose of this article is to bring to scholarly attention an audience that has not been noticed or studied in the previous scholarship on early modern Yiddish literature.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{KrahThulin2019,
  author    = {Krah, Markus and Thulin, Mirjam},
  title     = {Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the Babel Fish},
  series = {PaRDeS: Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e. V. = Journal of the German Association for Jewish Studies},
  volume    = {2019},
  journal   = {PaRDeS: Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e. V. = Journal of the German Association for Jewish Studies},
  number    = {25},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-468-5},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-44589},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-445899},
  pages     = {11 -- 20},
  year      = {2019},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Refael2013,
  author    = {Refael, Shmuel},
  title     = {Hebrew Poetic Manifesto Kotzo shel yod (1878) by Y.L. Gordon translated into Ladino La punta de la yod (1901)},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  number    = {19},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-67101},
  pages     = {145 -- 159},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Kotzo shel yod by Y. L. Gordon (1832-1892) - one of the prominent intellectuals of the Jewish Enlightenment period - is a well-known Hebrew poem. This poem is characterized by a daring, sharp criticism of the traditional Jewish institutions, which the author felt required a critical shake-up. Gordon's literary works were inspired by the Jewish Ashkenazi world. This unique and pioneering literary work was translated into Judeo-Spanish (Ladino). The aim of this article is to present the Sephardic version of Gordon's poem. The article will attempt to examine the motives behind the translation of this work into Ladino, the reception of the translated work by its readership and the challenges faced by the anonymous translator who sought to make this work accessibleto the Ladino-reading public, in the clear knowledge that this version was quite far removed from the Ashkenazi original from which it sprang.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Moreno2013,
  author    = {Moreno, Aitor Garc{\´i}a},
  title     = {The spread of the German (?) calque ans{\´i} un... (Eng. such a...) in Judeo-Spanish},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  number    = {19},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-67059},
  pages     = {57 -- 68},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {In this article we analyze several examples of the syntactic structure ans{\´i} un...(Eng. such a...) apparently calqued from the German expression so ein... that can be found in different Judeo-Spanish texts since the second half of 19th Century. Although the eldest examples appeared in Judeo-Spanish translations of German novels, published in Vienna - what suggests that they could be mere cases derived from a kind of translation too attached to the original -, we can also find more examples in Sephardic texts produced outside the German speaking area (Bosnia, Bulgaria, etc.), not being necessarily translations of a German original. Dealing with all these cases, we will try to trace (and explain) the spread of the ans{\´i} un syntactic structure in modern Judeo-Spanish prose.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Quintana2013,
  author    = {Quintana, Aldina},
  title     = {Israel bar Hayim de Belogrado, the "Write as you speak" principle and the nomenclature in the Sefer Otsar Hahayim (1823)},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  number    = {19},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-67045},
  pages     = {35 -- 55},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {The political and social changes with which the 19th century began in the Balkans after a great part of their territories were taken over by the Austrian Empire, also resulted in social and intellectual activity and created a new framework in the relationship with the Ottoman Empire. Vienna turned into the shelter of many citizens from the Balkans who then became the transmitters of innovation to their co-citizens through their contact with central European culture. In this sense, the members of Jewish communities participated as much as members of other ethnical and social groups. The most prominent of these Jews was Israel Hayim de Belogrado ('of Belgrade'), who developed an important intellectual work in the Austrian capital between 1813 and 1837. He even reformed Judeo-Spanish spelling and introduced new methodologies for learning Hebrew as a second language, based on the use of a trilingual nomenclature (Hebrew, Judeo-Spanish, German) when presenting the lexical repertoire.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{ConwayJones2012,
  author    = {Conway-Jones, Ann},
  title     = {"Whether in the body or out of the body I do not know"},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  number    = {18},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-61537},
  pages     = {79 -- 90},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Im Artikel werden Fragen zum Themenfeld K{\"o}rperlichkeit und Aufstieg in die Himmel untersucht. Dies geschieht anhand von Texten vom 1. Buch Henoch bis hin zur Hekhalot Literatur, zudem werden Philos Schriften einbezogen. Es werden sowohl Beschreibungen der himmlischen Sph{\"a}ren als auch des Prozesses des Emporsteigens behandelt. Trotz seiner von Platon gepr{\"a}gten, negativen Theologie setzt Philo kosmologische und spirituelle Himmel voraus und st{\"u}tzt sich auf die biblische Vorstellung der strahlenden Herrlichkeit. Auch wenn die Texte des Aufstiegs in die Himmeln nicht in einer philosophischen Sprache verfasst sind, verdeutlichen sie dennoch, dass der Mensch nicht in seinem irdischen K{\"o}rper in die Himmel aufsteigen kann und dass Gott nicht mit irdischen Augen gesehen werden kann. Ideengeschichtlich sind diese Texte nicht so weit vom Philosophen Philo entfernt wie dies zuerst den Anschein haben mag.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Griffiths2012,
  author    = {Griffiths, Toni},
  title     = {The state of jewish memory in York and Winchester},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  number    = {18},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-61523},
  pages     = {67 -- 78},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Am Beispiel der englischen St{\"a}dte York und Winchester wird in diesem Artikel das Konzept der Erinnerung von Pierre Nora untersucht, um die Individualit{\"a}t lokaler Ans{\"a}tze der Erinnerung an mittelalterliche englische Judenheiten zu veranschaulichen. Allgemein wird in diesem Beitrag aufgezeigt, wie Erinnerung einerseits aus einem Zeitalter anhaltenden Schweigens befreien und andererseits wieder in ein gr{\"o}ßeres historisches Narrativ integriert werden kann. Vice versa wird ebenfalls untersucht, wie das die j{\"u}dische Erinnerung umschließende Schweigen dennoch seine Fortsetzung im scharfen Gegensatz zu diesem neuen Verst{\"a}ndnis von Erinnerung findet. Abschließend wird im Artikel die Frage gestellt, warum dieses Schweigen anh{\"a}lt und ob Noras Theorie, dass sich Erinnerung kontinuierlich entwickelt, auf die Erfahrungen j{\"u}discher Erinnerung in York und Winchester angewendet werden kann.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Wynn2012,
  author    = {Wynn, Natalie},
  title     = {Jews, antisemitism and Irish politics},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  number    = {18},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-61514},
  pages     = {51 -- 66},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Im Artikel wird eine der gr{\"o}ßten Schw{\"a}chen der Historiographie der irischen Judenheiten betrachtet: die fehlende Bestimmung des wahren Ausmaßes des Antisemitismus und dessen Auswirkungen auf die j{\"u}dische Gemeinschaft in Irland. Hierf{\"u}r wird ein kurzer {\"U}berblick {\"u}ber einen Ausschnitt des irisch-j{\"u}dischen Narrativs gegeben: das j{\"u}dische Verh{\"a}ltnis zur nationalistischen Politik in Irland. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf der Notwendigkeit f{\"u}r einen neuartigen Umgang mit den Quellen und den vorliegenden Sachverhalten, um eine ganzheitliche, objektivere und inklusive Geschichte der irischen Judenheiten zu schreiben.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Cohen2012,
  author    = {Cohen, Susan},
  title     = {Voluntary refugee work in Britain, 1933-39},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  number    = {18},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-61492},
  pages     = {21 -- 34},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Im Artikel wird die Arbeit von Fl{\"u}chtlingskomitees untersucht, die sich in Großbritannien vor und w{\"a}hrend des Zweiten Weltkriegs gr{\"u}ndeten und dort bet{\"a}tigten.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Lewy2011,
  author    = {Lewy, Mordechay},
  title     = {Corporeality in Jewish Thought and Art},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  number    = {17},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-53319},
  pages     = {209 -- 223},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {The essay compares the dichotomous concepts of corporeality and spirituality in Judaism and Christianity. Through the ages, deviations from normative principles of beliefs could be discerned in both religions. These can be attributed either to the somewhat confrontational interaction between Jews and Christians in the Medieval urban environment or to the impact of Hellenic civilization on both monotheistic religions. Out of this dynamic impact emerged Christian art with a predilection to expressed corporeality, whereas Jewish religiosity found its artistic expression in a spiritual noniconographical mode. A genuine Jewish art and iconography could develop only after a certain degree of assimilation and secularization. Marc Chagall was the first protagonist of a mature expression of Jewish iconography.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{AlbeckGidron2011,
  author    = {Albeck-Gidron, Rachel},
  title     = {The Holocaust as a Changing Presence in Yoel Hoffmann's Texts},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  number    = {17},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-53307},
  pages     = {175 -- 207},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Yoel Hoffmann is an Israeli writer born in 1937 in Brasov (Kronstadt), Romania. Brought up in a German-speaking family, already in his first book, Sefer Yosef (1989), he conveys the voice of German-speaking immigrants in Israel (the "Katschen" story, 1986) and that of the East European Jewish community in Berlin in the late 1930s, on the verge of the Second World War. His works are crammed with characters of Jews from Germany gripped by the memory of the language they abandoned following their emigration to Palestine in the 1930s. The classic one is the character of Bernhard, in the eponymous work. The current article focuses on the representation and elaboration of Hoffmann's unique creation, in a language influenced by his deep identification with Zen Buddhism on the one hand, and his attraction to the modernist, Western style of stream of consciousness on the other. In central sections of his works, Hoffman presents his entire literary corpus as a type of explicit, allusive, or secret Holocaust literature, and invites his readers and his critics to decode the allusions and expose the secret in this theme, a surprising statement in relation to Hoffmann's work and its analysis so far. Hoffmann represents the Holocaust as a collective Israeli trauma for which his literary fiction creates a special catalogue of representative characters. In the creation of a catalogue, and particularly one that simultaneously classifies and individualizes, Hoffmann's project resembles the monumental 1920s cataloguing project by the celebrated German photographer August Sander (Menschen des 20. Jahrhunderts). Hoffmann included photographs from this project in his works, and even chose some of them for the covers of his books. The article examines the implicit relationships between these two creative artists as conferring a meaning so far not considered in the research of the Holocaust theme in Yoel Hoffmann's writings.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Baraldi2011,
  author    = {Baraldi, Luca},
  title     = {Immobile Tremor},
  series = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung f{\"u}r J{\"u}dische Studien e.V.},
  number    = {17},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-53255},
  pages     = {71 -- 95},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {The threshold between the XVth and the XVIth Century represents a historical period during which, both for Christians and for Jews, the geopolitical sceneries and the interior horizons radically change. The modified reality provokes new forms of expectation and the need of new historical interpretations. Ferrara, within this scenery, can be considered, as other Italian cases, as a paradigmatic example, a narrow space where phenomena of spiritual and cultural Jewish rebirth can take shape. The permeability between Christian artistic and cultural world and Jewish intellectual production determines a prosperous context, further strengthened by the introduction of Jewish typography and by a growing claim and restoration of social elective dignity among the Jews of the Este Duchy. After the transfer of the capital city from Ferrara to Modena, the indirect effects of this intellectual resurgence are deeply transformed on a social level, and allows us to catch the persistence of important forms of communication between Christians and Jews in everyday life. The introduction of the Inquisition provides us, through the production of the judicial archive, with the most important instrument to understand social dynamics, which allows us to comprehend a new potential interpretation key for the reality of the ghetto and the choice of its erection. The urban division is nothing else but a new attempt to separate the invisible spaces of the thought. The effective efficacy of the physical separation shows several weak points, which persist during the entire life of the ghetto, since 1638 until 1789.},
  language  = {en}
}