TY - JOUR A1 - Trezib, Joachim Nicolas A1 - Sonder, Ines T1 - The Rassco and the Settlement of the Fifth Aliyah BT - Pre-State and Early State Middle Class Settlement and its Relevance for Public Housing in Eretz-Israel JF - Israel studies N2 - When the immigration wave of the Fifth Aliyah (1929-39) set in, a new form of rural colonization termed "middle class" settlement gained wide diffusion in Palestine. This "middle class" settlement was financed by private means, but organized by a semi-public company, the so-called Rassco. The process of mobilizing private financial resources was facilitated by the Haavara Agreement, of which the Rassco was an integral part. Between 1934 and 1948 the company established some 30 rural "middle class" settlements and suburbs, contributing to a large extent to the growing building market and settlement activity in Palestine. In comparison to the collective rural colonization in Eretz Israel the "middle class" settlement in general and the Rassco in particular have not been widely covered in the academic literature. The essay seeks to roughly delineate the contours of some of the findings of the first comprehensive research on the Rassco, which is currently being conducted by the authors at the Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies, Potsdam (Germany). Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2979/israelstudies.24.1.01 SN - 1084-9513 SN - 1527-201X VL - 24 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 23 PB - Indiana Univ. Press CY - Bloomington ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Sonder, Ines A1 - Trezib, Joachim Nicolas T1 - Mit RASSCO siedeln BT - Transferwege der Deutschen Alija nach Palästina-Erez Israel (1933-1948) N2 - Die Jeckes-Forschung hat sie übersehen, die Architekturgeschichte hat ihre Bauten ignoriert, ihre Emigration stand unter dem Stigma des "Pakts mit dem Teufel": die nach 1933 aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschen Reich emigrierten Juden, die im Rahmen der "Kapitalisten-Alija" nach Palästina gelangten und dort in Mittelstandsdörfern angesiedelt wurden. Organisiert wurde ihre Emigration durch die Baugesellschaft RASSCO, die 1934 im Zuge des Haavara-Abkommens für den Siedlungstransfer gegründet wurde. Bis Kriegsausbruch wurden verschiedene Siedlungen realisiert, darunter Kfar Schmarjahu und die "Siedlung der Württemberger" Schawej Zion, bis zur Staatsgründung rund zwei Dutzend. Ines Sonder und Joachim Trezib dokumentieren erstmals den gesamten Prozess der Übersiedlung von der politischen Dimension des Haavara-Transfers bis hin zu den Einzelschicksalen der Siedlerfamilien aus Deutschland. Sie eröffnen somit eine neue Perspektive auf die Fünfte Alija - durch ihr reiches, bislang unveröffentlichtes Bildmaterial auch in visueller Hinsicht. Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-95565-586-0 PB - Hentrich & Hentrich CY - Leipzig ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schoeps, Julius H. T1 - Theodor Lessing, der „Prager Kreis“ und sein weiteres Umfeld JF - Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte JF - Journal of religious and cultural studies N2 - Theodor Lessing was a German-Jewish philosopher, Zionist, Communist and member of the Prager Kreis. He wrote psychological studies of Judaism and influenced with his main philosophical works Geschichte als Sinngebung des Sinnlosen (1919) and Europa und Asien (1918, and 1924) the German speaking scholars and contemporaries in Germany and elsewhere. He was killed by the Nazis in 1933 as one of the first victims of National Socialism. T2 - Theodor Lessing, the "Prague Circle" and its wider environment Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/15700739-07302005 SN - 0044-3441 SN - 1570-0739 VL - 73 IS - 2 SP - 121 EP - 140 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Menachem Zoufala, Marcela A1 - Dyduch, Joanna A1 - Glöckner, Olaf T1 - Jews and muslims in Dubai, Berlin, and Warsaw BT - interactions, peacebuilding initiatives, and improbable encounters JF - Religions N2 - What is the nature of interactions between Jews and Muslims in contemporary Dubai, Berlin, and Warsaw? The purpose of the three presented case studies is to evaluate the state of affairs and identify newly emerging trends and patterns in the given trans-urban context. The methodology is based on qualitative anthropological research, emphasising an emic perspective that centralises respondents' own lived experiences and worldviews. The main research's findings made evident that interactions between Muslims and Jews in each examined location are, to various extents, acknowledged, and in some cases, also embody a formative part of public discourses. Perhaps the most visible manifestations of these relations are represented by the ambitious interfaith projects that were recently established in each geographical area in focus. The Abrahamic Family House (UEA), The House of One (GE), and The Community of Conscience (PL) reveal the aspirations of multi-faith religious leaders to overcome polarising dichotomies and search for common ground. One of the conclusive outcomes of the study is a somewhat diminishing impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the Jewish-Muslim relations; however, the extent differs in each destination in focus. Finally, an unpredicted observation can be made. A surfacing inclination towards embracing a joint Muslim-Jewish Middle Eastern identity was perceived. KW - Jews and Muslims KW - Dubai KW - Berlin KW - Warsaw KW - multi-faith projects KW - The Abrahamic Family House KW - The House of One KW - The Community of Conscience; KW - cultural hybridisation KW - Abraham Accords Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13010013 SN - 2077-1444 VL - 13 IS - 1 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ludewig, Anna-Dorothea T1 - Aus dem »chassidischen Stübchen« BT - Der Briefwechsel zwischen Margarete Susman und Walter Nigg JF - Briefe als Laboratorium der Literatur im deutsch-jüdischen Kontext : schriftliche Dialoge, epistolare Konstellationen und poetologische Diskurse Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-8471-1296-9 SN - 978-3-8470-1296-2 SP - 167 EP - 182 PB - V&R unipress CY - Göttingen ER -