@article{Krah2017, author = {Krah, Markus}, title = {Further foward thriugh the past}, series = {Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies}, volume = {35}, journal = {Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies}, publisher = {Purdue University Press}, address = {West Lafayette}, issn = {0882-8539}, doi = {10.1353/sho.2017.0027}, pages = {111 -- 131}, year = {2017}, abstract = {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.}, language = {en} } @misc{GallasHiekeJuengeretal.2017, author = {Gallas, Elisabeth and Hieke, Anton and J{\"u}nger, David and Kleinecke, Ulrike and Krah, Markus}, title = {Introduction: "Re-Framing American Jewish History and Thought: New Transnational Perspectives," Potsdam (Germany), July 20-22, 2016}, series = {American Jewish History}, volume = {101}, journal = {American Jewish History}, number = {4}, publisher = {Johns Hopkins University Press}, address = {Baltimore}, issn = {0164-0178}, doi = {10.1353/ajh.2017.0065}, pages = {517 -- 518}, year = {2017}, abstract = {In recent years, "transnationalism" has become a key concept for historians and other scholars in the humanities and social sciences. However, its overuse threatens to dilute what would otherwise be a distinct approach with promising heuristic potential. This danger seems especially pronounced when the notion of transnationalism is applied to Jewish history, which, paradoxically, most scholars would agree, is at its core transnational. Many studies have analyzed how Jewries in different times and places, from the biblical era to the present, have been shaped by people, ideas, texts, and institutions that migrated across state lines and between cultures. So what is new about transnationalism in Jewish Studies? What new insights does it offer? American Jewry offers an obvious arena to test transnationalism's significance as an approach to historical research within Jewish studies. As a "nation of nations," the United States is made up of a distinct and unique society, built on ideas of diversity and pluralism, and transcending old European concepts of nation and state. The transformative incorporation in American life of cultural, political, and social traditions brought from abroad is one feature of this distinctiveness. American Jewish history and culture, in particular, are best understood in the context of interaction with Jews in other places, both because of American Jews' roots in and continued entanglement with Europe, and because of their differences from other Jews. These considerations guided the participants in a roundtable that formed a prologue to an international conference held July 20-22, 2016, at the School of Jewish Theology at the University of Potsdam and the Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany. The conference title, "Re-Framing American Jewish History and Thought: New Transnational Perspectives," indicated the organizers' conviction that the transnational approach does have the potential to shed fresh light on the American Jewish experience. The participants were asked to bring their experiences to the table, in an effort to clarify what transnationalism might mean for American Jewish Studies, and where it might yield new approaches and insights. The conference brought together some thirty scholars of various disciplines from Europe, Israel, and the United States. In addition to exploring a relatively new approach (at least, in the field of American Jewish Studies), the conference also served a second purpose: to further the interest in American Jewry as a subject of scholarly attention in countries outside the U.S., where the topic has been curiously neglected. The assumption underlying the conference was that a transnational perspective on American Jewry would bring to bear the particular interests and skills of scholars working outside the American academy, and thereby complement, rather than replicate, the ways American Jewish Studies have been pursued in North America itself.}, language = {en} } @article{Krah2017, author = {Krah, Markus}, title = {Clinging to Borders and Boundaries?}, series = {American Jewish History}, volume = {101}, journal = {American Jewish History}, number = {4}, publisher = {Johns Hopkins Univ. Press}, address = {Baltimore}, issn = {0164-0178}, doi = {10.1353/ajh.2017.0066}, pages = {519 -- 533}, year = {2017}, language = {en} } @article{Krah2017, author = {Krah, Markus}, title = {Further forward through the past}, series = {Shofar : an interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies}, volume = {35}, journal = {Shofar : an interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies}, number = {4}, publisher = {Purdue University Press}, address = {Ashland}, issn = {0882-8539}, doi = {10.1353/sho.2017.0027}, pages = {111 -- 131}, year = {2017}, abstract = {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.}, language = {en} } @misc{Krah2020, author = {Krah, Markus}, title = {Rezension zu: Mihăilescu, Dana: Eastern European Jewish American narratives, 1890-1930 : struggles for recognition. - Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018. - XXi, 249 S. - ISBN: 978-1-4985-6389-5}, series = {American Jewish history : an American Jewish Historical Society quarterly publication}, volume = {104}, journal = {American Jewish history : an American Jewish Historical Society quarterly publication}, number = {2-3}, publisher = {Johns Hopkins Univ. Press}, address = {Baltimore, MD}, issn = {0164-0178}, doi = {10.1353/ajh.2020.0039}, pages = {469 -- 471}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @incollection{Krah2020, author = {Krah, Markus}, title = {The Americanization of Simon Dubnow}, series = {Dubnow Institute Yearbook}, volume = {XVII}, booktitle = {Dubnow Institute Yearbook}, publisher = {Vandenhoeck \& Ruprecht}, address = {G{\"o}ttingen}, isbn = {978-3-525-37080-3}, pages = {539 -- 568}, year = {2020}, language = {en} } @article{Krah2021, author = {Krah, Markus}, title = {Berlin - Jerusalem - New York}, series = {J{\"u}dische Geschichte \& Kultur : Magazin des Dubnow-Instituts}, journal = {J{\"u}dische Geschichte \& Kultur : Magazin des Dubnow-Instituts}, publisher = {Metropol}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-86331-604-4}, issn = {2567-8469}, pages = {16 -- 19}, year = {2021}, language = {de} } @incollection{Krah2022, author = {Krah, Markus}, title = {Ein transnationaler j{\"u}discher Kanon als Verlagsprogramm}, series = {Juden und ihre Nachbarn : die Wissenschaft des Judentums im Kontext von Diaspora und Migration}, booktitle = {Juden und ihre Nachbarn : die Wissenschaft des Judentums im Kontext von Diaspora und Migration}, publisher = {de Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, isbn = {978-3-11-077070-4}, doi = {10.1515/9783110772388-011}, pages = {193 -- 212}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Der Verleger, Kaufhausunternehmer und M{\"a}zen Salman Schocken (1877- 1959)neigte nicht zu {\"u}bertriebener Bescheidenheit. Als er 1945 in New York seinen amerikanischen Verlag ins Leben rief, k{\"u}ndigte er ihn mit folgenden Worten an: Schocken ignorierte damit die Arbeit der zahlreichen bestehenden amerikanisch-j{\"u}dischen Verlagsh{\"a}user, da diese seiner Meinung nach nicht die Aufgabe erf{\"u}llten, die ihm vorschwebte: die R{\"u}ckf{\"u}hrung traditionsferner und damit in ihrer Identit{\"a}t unsicherer Juden durch Auseinandersetzung mit ihrem kulturellen Erbe. Dieses Ziel hatte bereits das Programm des Berliner Schocken Verlags (1931- 1938) bestimmt, der die vom Gr{\"u}nder genannten „repr{\"a}sentative[n] Kostproben des Judentums" ver{\"o}ffentlicht und damit zur „j{\"u}dischen Kulturrenaissance" der 1930er Jahre beigetragen hatte.² Auch nach seiner Emigration nach Pal{\"a}stina 1934 blieb Schocken einer deutsch-j{\"u}dischen Wissenskultur zeitlebens verhaftet. Mit seiner verlegerischen Arbeit in den USA wollte Schocken das Programm seines Berliner Verlags f{\"u}r das amerikanische Nachkriegsjudentum neu auflegen, da sich dieses - seiner Meinung nach - in einer {\"a}hnlichen geistigen Situation befand wie das deutsche Judentum der Weimarer Republik. Entsprechend verk{\"u}ndete er 1945 in einer Rede in Jerusalem: „Sie wissen, dass ich jetzt daran arbeite, den Schockenverlag in Amerika zu machen. Das ist eine Imitation des deutschen Verlages. [...] Entfernungen existieren nicht mehr und Einfluss von hier nach dort und dort nach hier ist nicht mehr zu {\"u}bersehen."³ In diesen Aussagen klingen bereits verschiedene Schl{\"u}sselthemen der Rolle von Schocken Books New York an, dessen Geschichte bisher nur ansatzweise erforscht ist: Der Bezug auf Schockens Erfahrungen in Deutschland und das davon gepr{\"a}gte kulturpolitische Programm, das Kontinuit{\"a}ten zwischen zwei r{\"a}umlich und zeitlich fundamental getrennten j{\"u}dischen Gemeinschaften postulierte und auf einen transnationalen Kanon j{\"u}dischen Wissens zielte. Schocken wirkte mit seinen Verlagen, die er in Deutschland, Pal{\"a}stina/Israel und den USA gr{\"u}ndete, nicht nur an drei Schl{\"u}sselorten der j{\"u}dischen Moderne. Sein Verlagsprogramm stand zudem im Kontext eines Schl{\"u}sselprozesses j{\"u}discher Modernisierung: der Transformation traditionell-religi{\"o}sen Wissens in posttraditionell-kulturelle Formen. Dieser Beitrag stellt anhand von Quellen aus dem Verlagsarchiv, der Nachl{\"a}sse von Schockens Lektoren in den USA und der Rezeption von Schocken Books in den USA den Verlagsgr{\"u}nder Salman Schocken und die beiden Verlage in Berlin und New York vor. Im Zentrum der Analyse stehen die transnationale Verflechtung der Verlagsh{\"a}user und die Frage nach dem in den Publikationsprogrammen angestrebten transnationalen Kanon j{\"u}dischen Wissens in der Moderne.}, language = {de} }