Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
The Future of the German-Jewish Past Starts Here, by Gideon Reuveni
THE PERSONAL, THE HISTORICAL, AND THE MAKING OF GERMAN-JEWISH MEMORY
“No More Mr. Nice Guy”: Questioning the Ideal of Assimilation, by Alan Posener
Generation in Flux: Diasporic Reflections on the Future of German-Jewishness, by Sheer Ganor
Home on the Balcony: New Initiatives for the Preservation of Documents and Material Objects Relating to German-Jewish History, by Joachim Schlör
From Object to Subject: Representing Jews and Jewishness at the Jewish Museum Berlin, by Michal Friedlander
Past Imperfect, Future Tense: A Mother’s Letter about Loss, Storytelling, and the Profound Ambivalence of the German-Jewish Legacy, by Nicola Glucksmann
LOOKING BACK TO FUTURE VISIONS OF THE GERMAN-JEWISH PAST
The Ever-Dying Jewry? Prophets of Doom and the Survival of European Jewry, by Michael Brenner
The Thin Crust of Civilization: Lessons from the German-Jewish Past, by Mathias Berek
The Dialectics of Tradition: German-Jewish Studies and the Future, by Galili Shahar
“Noch ist unsere Hoffnung nicht dahin!” Fritz Pinkuss’s View on Germans, Jews, and the Universal Value of the German-Jewish Past, by Björn Siegel
GERMAN-JEWISHNESS AND DIFFERENCE
On the Possibilities and Impossibilities of Being Jewish in Postwar Germany, by Sandra Anusiewicz-Baer
Jewish Studies without the “Other”, by Klaus Hödl
Rethinking Jews, Antisemitism, and Jewish Difference in Postwar Germany, by Lisa Silverman
Newspaper Feuilletons: Reflections on the Possibilities of German-Jewish Authorship and Literature, by Liliane Weissberg
THE GERMAN-ISRAELI COMPLEX
Navigating Mythical Time: Israeli Jewish Migrants and the Identity Play of Mirrors, by Dani Kranz
“The Sun Does Not Shine, It Radiates”: On National(ist) Mergings in German Philosemitic Imagery of Tel Aviv, by Hannah C. Tzuberi
Does the German-Jewish Past Have a Future in Israel?, by Moshe Zimmermann
NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR GERMAN-JEWISH STUDIES
The Psychology of Antisemitism Revisited, by Anthony D. Kauders
Jewish and German: The Leo Baeck Institute Archives and Library, by Frank Mecklenburg
Toward a Transnational Jewish Historiography: Reflections on a Possible Future Path for the German-Jewish Past, by Guy Miron
Digital German-Jewish Futures: Experiential Learning, Activism, and Entertainment, by Kerry Wallach
Contributors
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