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Yfaat Weiss tells the story of an Arab neighborhood in Haifa that later acquired iconic status in Israeli memory. In the summer of 1959, Jewish immigrants from Morocco rioted against local and national Israeli authorities of European origin. The protests of Wadi Salib generated for the first time a kind of political awareness of an existing ethnic discrimination among Israeli Jews. However, before that, Wadi Salib existed as an impoverished Arab neighborhood. The war of 1948 displaced its residents, even though the presence of the absentees and the Arab name still linger. Weiss investigates the erasure of Wadi Salib's Arab heritage and its emergence as an Israeli site of memory. At the core of her quest lies the concept of property, as she merges the constraints of former Arab ownership with requirements and restrictions pertaining to urban development and the emergence of its entangled memory. Establishing an association between Wadi Salib's Arab refugees and subsequent Moroccan evacuees, Weiss allegorizes the Israeli amnesia about both eventual stories--that of the former Arab inhabitants and that of the riots of 1959, occurring at different times but in one place. Describing each in detail, Weiss uncovers a complex, multilayered, and hidden history. Through her sensitive reading of events, she offers uncommon perspective on the personal and political making of Israeli belonging.

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Der Schwerpunkt dieses Jahrbuchs ist Else Lasker-Schüler gewidmet. Anhand ausgewählter Werke wie dem 1913 erschienenen Gedichtband "Hebräische Balladen" werden die Palästina-Imaginationen der Dichterin mit ihren realen Erfahrungen, die sie etwa 1937 in "Das Hebräerland" verarbeitete, abgeglichen. Historische und literaturwissenschaftliche Beiträge setzen Lasker-Schülers Schreiben in Beziehung zur Vorstellungswelt ihrer Zeitgenossen, indem sie das Schicksal von Flucht und Exil, den unwiederbringlichen Verlust der Heimat und die Bedeutung der Muttersprache als Aspekte einer deutsch-jüdischen Erfahrungsgeschichte konzeptualisieren. Im Allgemeinen Teil stehen die materiellen Spuren jüdischer Lebenswelten Ostmitteleuropas im Zentrum. Am Beispiel von verschiedenen Einrichtungen und Sammlungen jüdischer Provenienz werden die Dynamiken von mitunter multiplen Zerstörungsgeschichten und transnationalen Rettungsinitiativen während und nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg untersucht. Ergänzend dazu finden sich Beiträge zur italienisch-jüdischen Geschichte, zur jüdischen Geschichte als Gegenstand der Historiografie sowie zur Rechtsgeschichte in dem Band.Das Jahrbuch des Dubnow-Instituts ist ein Peer-reviewed-Journal (double blind).

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In the 1920s and 1930s, several important Jewish institutions were established on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem: the Hebrew University, the National Jewish Library, and the Hadassa Hospital. In the Jewish community in Palestine, the Jishuw, they had a really important, but also highly symbolic meaning. As a result of the Arab-Israeli war of 1948, however, they were now on Jordanian territory. In a difficult-to-access enclave administered by the UN, they became the plaything of competing claims to sovereignty. The Jewish cultural assets located there, primarily books and other collections, slipped away from the scholars who had carefully guarded them for decades. Using these objects and their fate, Yfaat Weiss tells the story of Jerusalem after war and division in her essay.

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The 2017 edition of the Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook encompasses two focal points: The first deals with the year 1938, an incisive year for Europe's Jews, against the background of Jewish experiences and political activities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. On the basis of issues surrounding citizenship, minority rights, flight, and migration, this dramatic crisis is cast in a new light, with the focus placed especially on the states of Central and Eastern Europe. The second focal point takes the enduring surge in biographical research as an impetus to examine the reasons for the popularity of this genre within Jewish Studies. Using examples from current research projects on Jewish intellectuals, core issues and challenges of biographical writing are presented and discussed. The general part and the special sections of the Yearbook contain contributions on the conjunction of political and religious history, on the study of nationalism and historical semantics, as well as on Sholem Aleichem, Franz Neumann, and Ernst Grumach.

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Lea Goldberg is considered an icon of poetry in Israel, but is practically unknown outside the Hebrew language borders. To date, she has only published a few poems translated into German at the beginning of the 1960s, as well as her first novel "Letters from an Imaginary Journey". This volume focuses on Goldberg's experiences in her academic years in Germany at the end of the Weimar Republic. Yfaat Weiss shows the extent to which Goldberg's study of Semitic philology influenced her work against the background of growing National Socialism. In addition, the question of how Lea Goldberg, who came from the Russian culture of the Lithuanian Kovno, became a mediator of Central and Western European culture in Israel will be investigated.

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This book is a reconstruction of the hidden psychology of the 68 students' movement and its aftermath in Germany. The radical self-identification with the Jews is reconstructed as the source of a specific leftist anti-Semitism culminating in political pathologies which still determine the Zeitgeist today behind the bars.

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