Contents
Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin and Raphael Gross
I. Jews and Citizenship
Introduction by Andreas Braemer and Gideon Reuveni
Gideon Reuveni, Emancipation through Consumption: Moses Mendelssohn and the Idea of Marketplace Citizenship
Michal Szulc, A Gracious Act or Merely a Regulation of Economic Activity? A Daily Life Perspective on the Reception of the Prussian Emancipation Edict of 1812
Miriam Rürup, The Citizen and its Other – Zionist and Israeli Responses to Statelessness
II. German-speaking Jews and the Politics of Antisemitism
David Meola, German Jews and the Local German Press: The Jewish Struggle for Acceptance in Constance, 1846.
Lisa Zwicker, Conservative Ideological Resurgence, Mass Nationalist Rallying, and Students’ Status Anxiety: The German Burschenschaft’s Antisemitic Resolution of 1896
Stephanie Seul, Transnational Press Discourses on German Antisemitism during the Weimar Republic: The Riots in Berlin’s Scheunenviertel, 1923
III. Language, Philosophy and Culture
Gertrud Reershemius, Language as the main protagonist? East Frisian Yiddish in the writing of Isaac Herzberg
Susanne Hillman, “A Few Human Beings Walking Hand in Hand”: Margarete Susman, Leonhard Ragaz, and the Origins of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Zurich
Uri Ganani, The Politics of Arabella: Post-Wagnerian Opera and the German-Jewish Quest for Lyrical Individualism, 1928-1933
IV. After the Holocaust
Dov Schidorski, Hannah Arendt’s Dedication to Salvaging Jewish Culture
Jonathan Zatlin, Repetition and Loss: Jewish Refugees and German Communists after the Holocaust, 1945-1951
V. Austrian Film and Literature
Nicholas Baer, The Rebirth of a Nation: Cinema, Herzlian Zionism, and Emotion in Jewish History
Katya Krylova, Melancholy Journeys in the Films of Ruth Beckermann
Andrea Reiter, The appropriation of Myth as language in Julya Rabinowich’s Jewish novels
VI. List of Contributors
VII. Index
Illustrations