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Book Synopsis What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German history to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them both within and outside of Jewish communities, and what the implications have been across different eras and social contexts. Working from an expansive concept of “the spatial,” these contributions look not only at physical sites but at professional, political, institutional, and imaginative realms, as well as historical Jewish experiences of spacelessness. Together, they encompass spaces as varied as early modern print shops and Weimar cinema, always pointing to the complex intertwining of German and Jewish identity.
Trade Review “The present volume bears the fruits of more than two decades of scholarship on Jewish space, and the long gestation period of this anthology is well worth the wait… Overall, this is a welcome addition to a flourishing field, indeed, the “spatial turn” in Jewish studies diagnosed in the late 1990s, is set to continue to enhance the work of historians, particularly those of us working in borderlands and who engage with the study of boundaries between population groups…thorough editorial work and a superbly crafted introduction.” • Modern Jewish Studies
“In their various ways, the contributions of the volume… offer rich food for thought… the volume advances the discussion of space and spatiality in German-Jewish history considerably, and in the best instances individual contributions successfully break down the barriers between German and non-German historiography, just as the editors hoped they would.” • German History
“The range of approaches and the sheer breadth of spaces and texts treated here—synagogues and cemeteries, German landscapes, Freud and his reception, philanthropy, urban ghettos, photography, and museums—provide a compelling and rich window into Jewish spaces in their historical context.” • Barbara Mann, Jewish Theological Seminary of America
“This collection makes a convincing case for the application of ‘space’ as an analytic category for the study of minorities in European society, affording new insights into the complexities and fluidities of intertwined and ‘entangled’ histories.” • Jonathan Skolnik, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Table of Contents List of Figures
Preface
Introduction: What Made a Space “Jewish”? Reconsidering a Category of Modern German History
Simone Lässig and Miriam Rürup
PART I: IMAGINATIONS: REMEBERANCE AND REPRESENTATION OF SPACES AND BOUNDARIES
Chapter 1.
Of Sounds and Stones: The Jewish-Christian Contact Zone of a Swiss Village in the Nineteenth-Century
Alexandra Binnenkade
Chapter 2.
Imaginations of the Ghetto: Jewish Debates on Ghettos and Jewish Society in Late Nineteenth-Century Galicia
Jürgen Heyde
Chapter 3.
Modernization and Memory in German-Jewish History
Nils Roemer
Chapter 4.
From Place to Race and Back Again: The Jewishness of Psychoanalysis Revisited
Anthony D. Kauders
Chapter 5. Jewish Displacement and Simulation in the German Films of E. A. Dupont
Ofer Ashkenazi
Chapter 6. Layered Pasts: The Judengasse in Frankfurt and Narrating German-Jewish History after the Holocaust
Michael Meng
PART II: TRANSFORMATIONS: EMERGENCES, SHIFTS AND DISSOLUTIONS IN SPACES AND BOUNDARIES
Chapter 7.
The Representation and Creation of Spaces through Print Media:
Some Insights from the History of the Jewish Press…
Kerstin von der Krone
Chapter 8.
Out of the Ghetto, Into the Middle Class:
Changing Perspectives on Jewish Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Germany –
The Case of Synagogues and Jewish Burial Grounds
Andreas Gotzmann
Chapter 9. Spatial Variations and Locations: Synagogues at the Intersection of Architecture, Town, and Imagination
Sylvia Necker
Chapter 10. Jewish Philanthropy and the Formation of Modernity: Baron de Hirsch and His Vision of Jewish Spaces in European Societies
Björn Siegel
Chapter 11. Reconstruction Jewishness, Deconstructing the Past:
Reading Berlin’s Scheunenviertel over the Course of the Twentieth Century
Anne-Christin Saß
PART III: PRACTICES: NEGOTIATING, EXPERIENCING, AND APPROPRIATING SPACES AND BOUNDARIES
Chapter 12.
A Hybrid Space of Communication: Hebrew Printing in Jessnitz, 1718–1745
Dirk Sadowski
Chapter 13.
Faith in Residence: Jewish Spatial Practice in the Urban Context
Joachim Schlör
Chapter 14. Photography as Jewish Space
Michael Berkowitz
Chapter 15.
Jews, Foreigners, and the Space of the Postwar Economy:
The Case of Munich's Möhlstrasse
Anna Holian
Chapter 16.
Creating a Bavarian Space for Rapprochement: The Jewish Museum Munich
Robin Ostow
Chapter 17.
Real Imaginary Spaces and Places: Virtual, Actual, and Otherwise
Ruth Ellen Gruber
Bibliography
Index
