TY - JOUR A1 - Kałczewiak, Mariusz T1 - When the "Ostjuden" returned BT - linguistic continuities in German-language writing about Eastern European jews JF - Naharaim : Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte N2 - This article examines the dynamics that allowed the derogatory term "Ostjuden" to reappear in academic writing in post-Holocaust Germany. This article focuses on the period between 1980's and 2000's, complementing earlier studies that focused on the emergence of the term "Ostjuden" and on the complex representations of Eastern European Jews in Imperial and later Weimar Germany. It shows that, despite its well-evidenced discriminatory history, the term "Ostjuden" re-appeared in the scholarly writing in German and has also found its way into German-speaking public history and journalism. This article calls for applying the adjectival term "osteuropaische Juden" (Eastern European Jews), using a term that neither essentializes Eastern European Jews nor presents them in an oversimplified and uniform manner. KW - East European Jews KW - Germany KW - terminology Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/naha-2020-0015 SN - 1862-9148 SN - 1862-9156 VL - 15 IS - 2 SP - 287 EP - 309 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Stillmark, Hans-Christian A1 - Krüger, Brigitte T1 - Dekonstruktion von Künstlermythen BT - Daniel Kehlmann: Ruhm und Michel Houllebecq: Karte und Gebiet JF - Mythos No. 4 : Philologische Mythosforschung = Mythos : fächerübergreifendes Forum für Mythosforschung KW - Mythos KW - Dekonstruktion Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-8260-5955-1 VL - 4 SP - 78 EP - 98 PB - Königshausen & Neumann CY - Würzburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krah, Markus T1 - Further foward thriugh the past BT - postwar American jews reconfigue the east European tradition in cultural terms JF - Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies N2 - From the 1940s well into the 1960s, a new sociocultural constellation let American Jews redefine their relationship to the religious tradition. This article analyzes the response of a religious elite of rabbis and intellectuals to this process, which was driven by various factors. Many American Jews were at least one generation away from traditional Judaism, which seemed out of place in postwar America. Liberal Judaism, with its narrow concept of religion, on the other hand, while fitting a larger social consensus, did not satiate many Jews' spiritual and identity needs. Sensing this deficit, rabbis and other religious thinkers explored broader concepts of Judaism. Religious journals that sprang up in the postwar decades served as vehicles for the attempt to understand Judaism in broader, cultural terms, while preserving a religious core. The article shows how in this search religious thinkers turned to the Eastern European past as a resource. As other groups similarly tried to mine this past for the sake of their present agendas, its reconstruction became a key process in the transformation of postwar American Judaism and its relationship to the tradition. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2017.0027 SN - 0882-8539 SN - 1534-5165 VL - 35 SP - 111 EP - 131 PB - Purdue University Press CY - West Lafayette ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kay, Alex J. T1 - Speaking the Unspeakable BT - The Portrayal of the Wannsee Conference in the Film Conspiracy JF - Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History N2 - This article discusses the filmic representation of the infamous Wannsee Conference, when fifteen senior German officials met at a villa on the shore of a Berlin lake to discuss and co-ordinate the implementation of the so-called final solution to the Jewish question. The understanding reached during the course of the ninety-minute meeting cleared the way for the Europe-wide killing of six million Jews. The article sets out to answer the principal challenge facing anyone attempting to recreate the Wannsee Conference on film: what was the atmosphere of this conference and the attitude of the participants? Moreover, it discusses various ethical aspects related to the portrayal of evil, not in actions but in words, using the medium of film. In doing so, it focuses on the BBC/HBO television film Conspiracy (2001), directed by Frank Pierson, probing its historical accuracy and discussing its artistic credibility. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/17504902.2019.1637492 VL - 27 IS - 2 SP - 187 EP - 200 PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon, Oxon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blankovsky, Yuval T1 - Radical idea in talmudic literature JF - AJS review : The journal of the Association for Jewish Studies N2 - The Babylonian Talmud (BT) attributes the idea of committing a transgression for the sake of God to R. Nahman b. Isaac (RNBI). RNBI's statement appears in two parallel sugyot in the BT (Nazir 23a; Horayot 10a). Each sugya has four textual witnesses. By comparing these textual witnesses, this paper will attempt to reconstruct the sugya's earlier (or, what some might term, original) dialectical form, from which the two familiar versions of the text in Nazir and Horayot evolved. This article reveals the specific ways in which, value-laden conceptualizations have a major impact on the Talmud's formulation, as we know it today. Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0364009414000282 SN - 0364-0094 SN - 1475-4541 VL - 38 IS - 2 SP - 321 EP - 338 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Denz, Rebekka ED - Denz, Rebekka ED - Rudolf, Gabi T1 - Fragen und Antworten zu Gott und den Menschen BT - Einblicke in jüdische religiöse Bildung auf dem Land um 1900 JF - Genisa-Blätter KW - Genisa KW - Jüdische Studien KW - Geniza KW - Jewish studies Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-77388 SP - 145 EP - 163 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schorsch, Jonathan T1 - The Jews' Indian BT - Colonialism, pluralism, and belonging in America JF - American Jewish history Y1 - 2021 SN - 0164-0178 SN - 1086-3141 VL - 105 IS - 1-2 SP - 300 EP - 303 PB - Johns Hopkins Univ. Press CY - Baltimore ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ullrich, Rebecca A1 - Abramowicz, Isidoro T1 - Ein unbekannter Piyyut für Schabbat aus Reckendorf JF - Genisa-Blätter IV Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-584897 SN - 978-3-86956-539-2 SP - 73 EP - 82 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Shabbat, Maya T1 - Heimweh BT - the torn identity of Lemberg-Lwów’s intellectual Jewry JF - Quest : Issues in Contemporary Jewish History ; journal of Fondazione CDEC / Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea N2 - The concept of Heimweh conveys a set of emotions and images that have been described in different ways in different languages. This article intends to analyze the Heimweh experienced by Galician intellectual Jewry during the process of linguistic and cultural change that took place from 1867 until the mid.-1880s. This will be discussed while focusing on the urban intelligentsia circles in Lemberg (Lviv), which had a tremendous influence on some Galician Jewish intellectuals during that period. I will analyze the nature of a clash of identities that eventually brought some of the urban intelligentsia in Lemberg to consider themselves as living a "Spiritual" or "linguistic exile"(Sprachexil), regardless of whether they had migrated or not. Longing for the homeland as a nostalgic destination, whether they referred to it as Heimat or Ojczyzna, and whether they called it Lemberg or Lwow, was longing to be part of a group holding a distinct Kultur or Kultura, a set of values, culture and language, which coexisted with their Jewish identity. KW - Galicia KW - Immigration KW - Urbanization KW - Center and Periphery KW - Modern Jewry Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.48248/issn.2037-741X/13095 SN - 2037-741X IS - 20 SP - 109 EP - 139 PB - Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea CY - Mailand ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Singer-Brehm, Elisabeth T1 - ‚Maise Jeschurun‘ BT - Die Geschichte einer Ritualmordanklage JF - Genisa-Blätter IV Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-584932 SN - 978-3-86956-539-2 SP - 129 EP - 157 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -