TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Matthias A1 - Tjaden, Jasper A1 - Kampe, Heike A1 - Scholz, Jana A1 - Aust, Sarah-Madeleine A1 - Himmler, Lena A1 - Agrofylax, Luisa A1 - Mey, Jürgen A1 - Agarwal, Ankit A1 - Nikoloski, Zoran A1 - Mikulla, Stefanie A1 - Horn-Conrad, Antje A1 - Evans, Myfanwy T1 - Portal Wissen = Education:Digital T2 - Portal Wissen: The research magazine of the University of Potsdam N2 - Have you already swiped or liked this morning? Have you taken part in a video conference at work, used or programmed a database? Have you paid with your smartphone on the way home, listened to a podcast, or extended the lending of books you borrowed from the library? And in the evening, have you filled out your tax return application on ELSTER.de on your tablet, shopped online, or paid invoices before you were tempted to watch a series on a streaming platform? Our lives are entirely digitalized. These changes make many things faster, easier, and more efficient. But keeping pace with these changes demands a lot from us, and not everyone succeeds. There are people who prefer to go to the bank to make a transfer, leave the programming to the experts, send their tax return by mail, and only use their smartphone to make phone calls. They don’t want to keep pace, or maybe they can’t. They haven’t learned these things. Others, younger people, grow up as “digital natives” surrounded by digital devices, tools, and processes. But does that mean they really know how to use them? Or do they also need digital education? But what does successful digital education actually look like? Does it teach us how to use a tablet, how to google properly, and how to write Excel spreadsheets? Perhaps it’s about more than that. It’s about understanding the comprehensive change that has been taking hold of our world since it was broken down into digital ones and zeros and rebuilt virtually. But how do we learn to live in a world of digitality – with all that it entails, and to our benefit? For the new issue of “Portal Wissen”, we looked around at the university and interviewed researchers about the role that the connection between digitalization and learning plays in the research of various disciplines. We spoke to Katharina Scheiter, Professor of Digital Education, about the future of German schools and had several experts show us examples of how digital tools can improve learning in schools. We also talked to computer science and agricultural researchers about how even experienced farmers can still learn a lot about their land and their work thanks to digital tools. We spoke to educational researchers who are using big data to analyze how boys and girls learn and what the possible causes for differences are. Education and political scientist Nina Kolleck, on the other hand, looks at education against the backdrop of globalization and relies on the analysis of large amounts of social media data. Of course, we don’t lose sight of the diversity of research at the University of Potsdam. We learn, for example, what alternatives to antibiotics could soon be available. This magazine also looks at stress and how it makes us ill as well as the research into sustainable ore extraction. A new feature of our magazine is a whole series of shorter articles that invite you to browse and read: from research news and photographic insights into laboratories to simple explanations of complex phenomena and outlooks into the wider world of research to a small scientific utopia and a personal thanks to research. All this in the name of education, of course. Enjoy your read! T3 - Portal Wissen: The research magazine of the University of Potsdam [Englische Ausgabe] - 1/2024 Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-646977 SN - 2198-9974 IS - 1/2024 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Corbett, Tim A1 - Siegel, Björn A1 - Thulin, Mirjam A1 - Csáky, Moritz A1 - Hödl, Klaus A1 - Kasper-Marienberg, Verena A1 - Berkovich, Ilya A1 - Czakai, Johannes A1 - Maślak-Maciejewska, Alicja A1 - Stechauner, Martin A1 - Dodou, Lida-Maria A1 - Heimann-Jelinek, Felicitas A1 - Nasr, Omar T. A1 - Halbinger, Monika A1 - Jánošíková, Magdaléna A1 - Keßler, Katrin A1 - Kauders, Anthony D. A1 - Piskačová, Zora A1 - Arnold, Rafael D. A1 - Schulz, Michael K. A1 - Shapira, Elena A1 - Sidky, Sean A1 - Sun, Cheuk Him Ryan A1 - Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava A1 - Tusan, Michelle A1 - Weigand, Susanne ED - Siegel, Björn ED - Thulin, Mirjam ED - Corbett, Tim T1 - Intersections between Jewish Studies and Habsburg Studies T2 - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany T2 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e. V. N2 - In the aftermath of the Shoah and the ostensible triumph of nationalism, it became common in historiography to relegate Jews to the position of the “eternal other” in a series of binaries: Christian/Jewish, Gentile/Jewish, European/Jewish, non-Jewish/Jewish, and so forth. For the longest time, these binaries remained characteristic of Jewish historiography, including in the Central European context. Assuming instead, as the more recent approaches in Habsburg studies do, that pluriculturalism was the basis of common experience in formerly Habsburg Central Europe, and accepting that no single “majority culture” existed, but rather hegemonies were imposed in certain contexts, then the often used binaries are misleading and conceal the complex and sometimes even paradoxical conditions that shaped Jewish life in the region before the Shoah. The very complexity of Habsburg Central Europe both in synchronic and diachronic perspective precludes any singular historical narrative of “Habsburg Jewry,” and it is not the intention of this volume to offer an overview of “Habsburg Jewish history.” The selected articles in this volume illustrate instead how important it is to reevaluate categories, deconstruct historical narratives, and reconceptualize implemented approaches in specific geographic, temporal, and cultural contexts in order to gain a better understanding of the complex and pluricultural history of the Habsburg Empire and the region as a whole. T3 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. - 29 KW - Habsburg Studies KW - Jewish Studies KW - Intersections KW - Central Europe KW - Habsburg Empire KW - Habsburgstudien KW - Jüdische Studien KW - Überschneidungen KW - Zentraleuropa KW - Habsburgisches Reich Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-622072 SN - 978-3-86956-574-3 SN - 1614-6492 SN - 1862-7684 IS - 29 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Siegel, Björn A1 - Schlör, Joachim A1 - Cohen-Hattab, Kobi A1 - Weinmann, Franziska A1 - Wassner, Dalia A1 - Studemund-Halévy, Michael A1 - Jacob, Frank A1 - Schachter, Allison A1 - Schirrmeister, Sebastian A1 - Jessen, Caroline A1 - Jungheim, Elias S. A1 - Fischer, Saskia A1 - Cooperman, Jessica A1 - Emig, Caroline A1 - Ginsburg, Shai ED - Siegel, Björn ED - Krah, Markus ED - Czendze, Oskar T1 - “They Took to the Sea” BT - Jewish History and Culture in Maritime Perspective(s) T2 - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany T2 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. N2 - The sea and maritime spaces have long been neglected in the field of Jewish studies despite their relevance in the context of Jewish religious texts and historical narratives. The images of Noah’s arche, king Salomon’s maritime activities or the miracle of the parting of the Red Sea immediately come into mind, however, only illustrate a few aspects of Jewish maritime activities. Consequently, the relations of Jews and the sea has to be seen in a much broader spatial and temporal framework in order to understand the overall importance of maritime spaces in Jewish history and culture. Almost sixty years after Samuel Tolkowsky’s pivotal study on maritime Jewish history and culture and the publication of his book “They Took to the Sea” in 1964, this volume of PaRDeS seeks to follow these ideas, revisit Jewish history and culture from different maritime perspectives and shed new light on current research in the field, which brings together Jewish and maritime studies. The articles in this volume therefore reflect a wide range of topics and illustrate how maritime perspectives can enrich our understanding of Jewish history and culture and its entanglement with the sea – especially in modern times. They study different spaces and examine their embedded narratives and functions. They follow in one way or another the discussions which evolved in the last decades, focused on the importance of spatial dimensions and opened up possibilities for studying the production and construction of spaces, their influences on cultural practices and ideas, as well as structures and changes of social processes. By taking these debates into account, the articles offer new insights into Jewish history and culture by taking us out to “sea” and inviting us to revisit Jewish history and culture from different maritime perspectives. T3 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. - 28 KW - Jewish Maritime Studies KW - Jewish Sea KW - Samuel Tolkowsky KW - Seafaring KW - Maritime spaces KW - Jüdisch-Maritime Studien KW - Jüdische Meer KW - Samuel Tolkowsky KW - Seefahrtswesen KW - Maritime Räume Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-573479 SN - 978-3-86956-552-1 SN - 1614-6492 SN - 1862-7684 IS - 28 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Matthias A1 - Agrofylax, Luisa A1 - Scholz, Jana A1 - Kampe, Heike A1 - Horn-Conrad, Antje A1 - Mikulla, Stefanie T1 - Portal Wissen = Humans T2 - Portal Wissen: The research magazine of the University of Potsdam N2 - When humans write and talk about humans, you notice right away: It’s their favorite topic. It is not only that everyone (usually) is closest to themselves. As a species, Homo sapiens also attaches distinct importance to themselves. Aristotle was concerned about the order of things and ranked the human being – as the seemingly most complicated one – at the “very top.” The book of Genesis in the Bible seems to take this up, calling the human being in a way the final point or “pride of creation” who should “rule” over Earth and all living beings. An impressive story, but it did not stand the test of time. The theory of evolution changed the pyramid into a far-branched tree and the human being to a little branch among many others. What has remained is that humans are not so easy to understand, especially to themselves. Or, as Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach said, “The simplest human is still a very complicated being.” This and the ongoing interest of humans in themselves ensure that many sciences also deal with him, her, or us, again and again and from every conceivable angle. Medicine and linguistics, educational research and psychology, history and sociology – many disciplines revolve around human(kind) and their actions. Therefore, it is hardly difficult to take a small exemplary human research journey through the University of Potsdam with this issue of “Portal Wissen.” We begin with a visit to the BabyLAB, where you can rewardingly watch even the youngest children learn languages. An economist points out that differences between men and women on their paychecks are anything but acceptable, and a start-up team showed us an app that can help you do something against dementia before it’s too late. Besides, it should have been clear long ago: If we want to understand ourselves, we must always look at what is surrounding us. This means the social interactions that challenge and shape us on both a small and large scale. That’s why we talked to historians who are investigating corruption in the ancient world. But it also includes the environment, both living and non-living, on which we leave our mark and which, in turn, constantly influences us. A specialist in ancient DNA, for example, is investigating whether even Neanderthals left an ecological footprint, while an ecologist is searching for the consequences of climate change for biodiversity in Africa. And a media scientist has spent years analyzing how various images can help communicate scientific findings on climate change in such a way that they are understood. We have not forgotten that the coronavirus continues to influence both our lives and research: A psychologist is working with partners throughout Germany to study how children and young people with chronic diseases get through the pandemic. In addition, we naturally do not leave aside the diversity of research – created by humans – at the University of Potsdam: We introduce one of Germany’s best gravitational wave researcher and talk about the role of mathematics in earthquake research. Last but not least, we had the work of the new research center for digital data law explained to us. T3 - Portal Wissen: The research magazine of the University of Potsdam [Englische Ausgabe] - 02/2022 Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-565843 SN - 2198-9974 IS - 02/2022 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Matthias A1 - Horn-Conrad, Antje A1 - Mikulla, Stefanie A1 - Kampe, Heike A1 - Scholz, Jana T1 - Portal Wissen = Together BT - The research magazine of the University of Potsdam N2 - What makes humans human – and what distinguishes them from other creatures on Earth – has long been fervently discussed and is still being discussed today. “Homo sapiens”, the scientific self-description of our species, is already the characterization as an “understanding, wise, knowledgeable human being”. It could be argued that we owe this additional knowledge to our trait of (basically) feeling particularly attached to our equals. We are what we are, above all, and perhaps even exclusively: together. The development that eventually turned communities into societies in the course of which culture and knowledge emerged, could well be told as a story of more and less togetherness. People were always successful when they lived with instead of against each other. Things that were much admired later came into being when people worked together, knowledge that made history as progress was developed by minds that came into a conversation. It is therefore all the more surprising that this “recipe for success” is being pushed into the background at a time when it is needed more than ever. As a result of the Corona pandemic, we are living in a time in which the world is faced with a – literally – all-encompassing task which it can only overcome together, as has already been said many times. And yet, many people are primarily concerned about their own well-being in various ways – not infrequently without reflecting that the well-being of many others, and possibly ultimately even their own, suffers as a consequence. When there is a need for more togetherness while there is a lot of talk about division, it becomes clear that the success of togetherness is not a foregone conclusion: If we want to achieve something together, we must always keep talking about the goals and the way to get there. For this issue, we have collected what people can achieve together and how research is trying to fathom the “secret of togetherness” in many ways. We visited a team of environmental scientists who are developing forest gardens together with committed residents – as green oases in the middle of cities. We took a first look at the prototype of a national education platform that will bundle all kinds of digital learning in the future. We also present a model project that aims to help teachers and students prevent hate speech. Last but not least, the issue presents a small selection of various collaborations across disciplinary and national borders: We show how researchers from law and political science are working together to examine the ups and downs of international law, and why religious studies scholars from Potsdam and Iraq benefit from each other. Of course, the issue also brings together the entire spectrum of research at the University of Potsdam, we promise! We found out how heavy rain turn into flash floods and how to prepare for such events. We interviewed a migration researcher and visited a geoscientist who is drawn to mountains and valleys alike. It’s about – often unwritten – “body rules” in everyday life, the exploration of our gaze with the help of artificial intelligence, 33 answers full of complexity, and about mathematics at infinity. Enough words. Read for yourself – alone or together. Just as you like! T3 - Portal Wissen: The research magazine of the University of Potsdam [Englische Ausgabe] - 01/2022 Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-562942 SN - 2198-9974 IS - 01/2022 CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zimmermann, Matthias A1 - Mikulla, Stefanie A1 - Kampe, Heike A1 - Horn-Conrad, Antje A1 - Lass, Sander T1 - Portal Wissen = Departure BT - The Research Magazine of the University of Potsdam N2 - On October 20, 1911, the Norwegian Roald Amundsen left the safe base camp “Framheim” at the Bay of Whales together with four other explorers and 52 sledge dogs to be the first person to reach the South Pole. Ahead of them lay the perpetual ice at temperatures of 20 to 30 degrees Celsius below zero and a distance of 1,400 kilometers. After eight weeks, the group reached its destination on December 13. The men planted the Norwegian flag in the lonely snow and shortly afterwards set off to make their way back – celebrated, honored as conquerors of the South Pole and laden with information and knowledge from the world of Antarctica. The voyage of Amundsen and his companions is undoubtedly so extraordinary because the five proved that it was possible and were the first to succeed. It is, however, also a symbol of what enables humans to push the boundaries of their world: the urge to set out into the unknown, to discover what has not yet been found, explored, and described. What distinguishes science - even before each discovery and new knowledge – is the element of departure. Questioning apparent certainties, taking a critical look at outdated knowledge, and breaking down encrusted thought patterns is the starting point of exploratory curiosity. And to set out from there for new knowledge is the essence of scientific activities – neither protected nor supported by the reliable and known. Probing, trying, courageously questioning, and sensing that the solid ground, which still lies hidden, can only be reached again in this way. “Research is always a departure for new shoreless waters,” said chemist Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Quadbeck-Seeger. Leaving behind the safe harbor, trusting that new shores are waiting and can be reached is the impetus that makes science so important and valuable. For the current issue of the University of Potsdam’s research magazine, we looked over the shoulders of some researchers as they set out on new research journeys – whether in the lab, in the library, in space, or in the mind. Astrophysicist Lidia Oskinova, for example, uses the Hubble telescope to search for particularly massive stars, while hydrologist Thorsten Wagener is trying to better understand the paths of water on Earth. Economists and social scientists such as Elmar Kriegler and Maik Heinemann are researching in different projects what politics can do to achieve a turnaround in climate policy and stop climate change. Time and again, however, such departures are themselves the focus of research: And a group of biologists and environmental scientists is investigating how nature revives forest fire areas and how the newly emerging forests can become more resilient to future fires. Since – as has already been said – a departure is inherent in every research question, this time the entire issue of “Portal Wissen” is actually devoted to the cover topic. And so we invite you to set out with Romance linguist Annette Gerstenberg to research language in old age, with immunologist Katja Hanack to develop a quick and safe SARS-CoV-2 test, and with the team of the Potsdam Center for Industry 4.0 to the virtual factory of tomorrow. And we will show you how evidence- based economic research can inform and advise politicians, and how a warning system is intended to prevent future accidents involving cyclists. So, what are you waiting for?! T3 - Portal Wissen: The research magazine of the University of Potsdam [Englische Ausgabe] - 02/2021 Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-537138 SN - 2198-9974 IS - 02/2021 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Diner, Hasia A1 - Krah, Markus A1 - Rabin, Shari A1 - Schwartz, Yitzchak A1 - Thulin, Mirjam A1 - Czendze, Oskar A1 - Schmidt, Imanuel Clemens A1 - Cooperman, Jessica A1 - Gallas, Elisabeth A1 - Rürup, Miriam A1 - Heyde, Jürgen A1 - Meyer, Thomas A1 - Ries, Rotraud A1 - Ullrich, Anna A1 - Geißler-Grünberg, Anke A1 - Schulz, Michael Karl A1 - Arnold, Rafael D. A1 - Sinn, Andrea A. ED - Diner, Hasia ED - Krah, Markus ED - Siegel, Björn T1 - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany = Foreign Entanglements: Transnational American Jewish Studies T2 - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany T2 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien N2 - The field of American Jewish studies has recently trained its focus on the transnational dimensions of its subject, reflecting in more sustained ways than before about the theories and methods of this approach. Yet, much of the insight to be gained from seeing American Jewry as constitutively entangled in many ways with other Jewries has not yet been realized. Transnational American Jewish studies are still in their infancy. This issue of PaRDeS presents current research on the multiple entanglements of American with Central European, especially German-speaking Jewries in the 19th and 20th centuries. The articles reflect the wide range of topics that can benefit from a transnational understanding of the American Jewish experience as shaped by its foreign entanglements. T3 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. - 27 KW - American history KW - modern Jewish history KW - European Jewish history KW - transnational history KW - migration KW - interfaith dialogue KW - education KW - rabbinical seminaries KW - publishing history KW - book history KW - cultural history KW - modern Judaism KW - history and memory KW - Galicia KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - cultural pluralism KW - historiography KW - moderne jüdische Geschichte KW - USA KW - 19. Jahrhundert KW - 20. Jahrhundert KW - deutsch-jüdische Geschichte KW - transnationale Studien KW - Migration Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-519333 SN - 978-3-86956-520-0 SN - 1614-6492 SN - 1862-7684 IS - 27 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mikulla, Stefanie A1 - Bossier-Steuerwald, Sandy A1 - Kampe, Heike A1 - Pchalek, Magda A1 - Zimmermann, Matthias A1 - Horn-Conrad, Antje T1 - Portal Wissen = Change BT - The Research Magazine of the University of Potsdam N2 - Change makes everything different. Let’s be honest: Just about everything is constantly in transformation. Even huge massifs that seem like eternity turned to stone will eventually dissolve into dust. So is change itself the only constant? The Greek philosopher Heraclitus certainly thought so. He said, “The only thing that is constant is change.” Change is frightening. A change that we cannot explain throws us into turmoil – like a magic trick we cannot decipher. Viruses that mutate, ecosystems that collapse, stars that perish – they all seem to threaten the fragile balance that makes our existence possible. Humanity is late in recognizing that we ourselves are all too often the impetus for dangerous transformations. Change gives hope. People have always been fascinated by change and felt compelled to explore its origin and essence. Quite successfully. We understand many things much better than generations before. But well enough? Not at all. Alexander von Humboldt said, “Every law of nature that reveals itself to the observer suggests a higher, as yet unrecognized one.” There is still much to be done. The current issue of Portal Wissen is all about change. We spoke to an astrophysicist who has found her happiness in researching the formation and change of stars. We also look at different aspects of the very earthly climate change and its consequences: A geoscientist explains how global warming affects the stability of mountain ranges. A legal expert makes clear that the call for a right to climate protection has gone largely unheard until now. How human land use affects biodiversity is being investigated by young researchers of the “Bio- Move” research training group, who have provided us with insights into their work on brown hares, water fleas, and mallard ducks. Other researchers focus on change in the contexts of humans. A group of nutrition scientists at the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) and sports scientists at the University of Potsdam are investigating the factors that cause our bodies to change as we age – and why some people lose muscles more quickly than others. Despite all these changes, we do not lose sight of the diversity of research at the University of Potsdam. A visit to the laboratory of the project “OptiZeD” gives us an idea of the possibilities offered by optical sensors for the personalized medicine of tomorrow, while an educational researcher explains why cultural diversity is an asset beneficial to our education. In addition, a cultural scientist reports on the fascination of comics. They are all part of the hopeful change that science is initiating and accomplishing! Enjoy the read! T3 - Portal Wissen: The research magazine of the University of Potsdam [Englische Ausgabe] - 01/2021 Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-509945 SN - 2198-9974 IS - 01/2021 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Engel, Silke A1 - Horn-Conrad, Antje A1 - Scholz, Jana A1 - Schapranow, Matthieu-Patrick A1 - Zimmermann, Matthias A1 - Kampe, Heike T1 - Portal Wissen = Health BT - The Research Magazine of the University of Potsdam N2 - The Coronavirus pandemic has made it very clear how much health and well-being determine our lives. And that science led the way in this regard could not be ignored. At the University of Potsdam, too, many researchers deal with aspects of health maintenance, whether in nutritional sciences, sports and rehabilitation medicine, biochemistry, or psychology. Their research includes supporting chronically ill children and the professional handling of risks, as you can read in this issue of our magazine. With the establishment of our seventh faculty, the Faculty of Health Sciences, these and many new medical topics are getting more attention at the University of Potsdam. While in the beginning, the “Brandenburg Health Campus” funded by the federal state of Brandenburg was a virtual network of university and non-university research, it is now getting more points of intersection and, not only since COVID-19, a very practical use and plausible to everyone. The Faculty of Health Sciences, founded in 2018, is supported by three institutions: the University of Potsdam, the Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg and the Brandenburg Medical School in Neuruppin. They pursue an interdisciplinary approach that holistically develops teaching, transfers new scientific findings from theory to practice and thus further improves overall medical care in Brandenburg. Their vision of being a central platform of research, teaching, and transfer combines socially relevant issues and existing expertise to align them with the needs of people in Brandenburg and use them to their benefit. This interdisciplinary structure has never been more important to advancing patient-oriented basic research and health care models. An innovative concept that can make Brandenburg a pioneer. In the meantime, the Faculty of Health Sciences has established 16 new professorships at the supporting universities, which are concerned with medicine and healthy aging, health services research, nursing and rehabilitation sciences, and telemedicine. Cardiology and physiology will play a central role as well. In general, the innovative faculty counts on strong interdisciplinary relationships, for example with nutritional sciences and the digital health department at the Digital Engineering Faculty. The role of digitization and well-prepared data in combating the Coronavirus pandemic can also be read about in this issue. As usual, the research magazine addresses the full range of research at the university: We introduce historian Dominik Geppert, who deals with the history of unified Germany after 1990 embedded in the tensions created by a context of national unification, European integration, and global networking. In a self-experiment, we explored together with a psycholinguist how to research word-finding disorders. Last but not least, we were able to take part in a trip to Namibia, where ecologists from Potsdam examine wildlife management in the threatened savannah. Let them take you where kudu and springbok live! T3 - Portal Wissen: The research magazine of the University of Potsdam [Englische Ausgabe] - 02/2020 Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-481458 SN - 2198-9974 IS - 02/2020 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thulin, Mirjam A1 - Krah, Markus A1 - Gausemeier, Bernd A1 - Mecklenburg, Frank A1 - Oehme, Annegret A1 - Tamás, Máté A1 - Gerlach, Lisa A1 - Gräbe, Viktoria A1 - Wermke, Michael A1 - Oleshkevich, Ekaterina A1 - Arnold, Rafael D. A1 - Wendehorst, Stephan A1 - Talabardon, Susanne A1 - Mays, Devi A1 - Müller, Judith A1 - Herskovitz, Yaakov A1 - Garloff, Katja A1 - Kellenbach, Katharina von A1 - Held, Marcus A1 - Grözinger, Karl Erich ED - Thulin, Mirjam ED - Krah, Markus ED - Pick, Bianca T1 - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany = Jewish Families and Kinship in the Early Modern and Modern Eras T2 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien T2 - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany N2 - The Jewish family has been the subject of much admiration and analysis, criticism and myth-making, not just but especially in modern times. As a field of inquiry, its place is at the intersection – or in the shadow – of the great topics in Jewish Studies and its contributing disciplines. Among them are the modernization and privatization of Judaism and Jewish life; integration and distinctiveness of Jews as individuals and as a group; gender roles and education. These and related questions have been the focus of modern Jewish family research, which took shape as a discipline in the 1910s. This issue of PaRDeS traces the origins of academic Jewish family research and takes stock of its development over a century, with its ruptures that have added to the importance of familial roots and continuities. A special section retrieves the founder of the field, Arthur Czellitzer (1871–1943), his biography and work from oblivion and places him in the context of early 20th-century science and Jewish life. The articles on current questions of Jewish family history reflect the topic’s potential for shedding new light on key questions in Jewish Studies past and present. Their thematic range – from 13th-century Yiddish Arthurian romances via family-based business practices in 19th-century Hungary and Germany, to concepts of Jewish parenthood in Imperial Russia – illustrates the broad interest in Jewish family research as a paradigm for early modern and modern Jewish Studies. T3 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. - 26 KW - Modern Jewish history KW - family history KW - early modern history KW - Jewish Studies KW - genealogy KW - Moderne Jüdische Geschichte KW - Familiengeschichte KW - Frühe Neuzeit KW - Jüdische Studien KW - Genealogie Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-473654 SN - 978-3-86956-493-7 SN - 1614-6492 SN - 1862-7684 IS - 26 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -