Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2013. LVIII.
London: Published for the Institute by Secker & Warburg, 2013. Hardbound. Octavo in dust jacket, frontispiece photo, xii, 299 pp., b/w illustrations, bibliography, list of contributors, index. Very Good. Item #91652
Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin and Raphael gross. Articles are "The Dual State Reframed: Ernst Fraenkel's Political Clients and his Theory of the Nazi Legal System," Douglas G. Morris "The Jewish Oath and the Making of Secularism in Modern France," Lisa Moses Leff, "Jews, Justice, and the Power of "Sensation" in the Weimar Republic," Warren Rosenblum,"Reconstructing Life after the Holocaust: The Lastenausgleichsgesetz and the Jewish Struggle for Compensation," Iris Nachum, "Historiography in Transit: Survivor Historians and the Writing of Holocaust History in the late 1940s," Laura Jockusch, "Symbiosis Relocated: The German-Jewish Orientalist Ilse Lichtenstadter in America," Ruchama Johnston-Bloom, "The "Scientification" of the Concentration Camp: Early Theories of Terror and Their Reception by American Academia," Kim Wünschmann, "The Making of a "Classic" of German-Jewish Historiography-Selma Stern's "Der preussische Staat und die Juden"," Irene Aue-Ben-David, "Scholarship and Worldliness: The Life and Work of Fritz Bamberger," Benjamin Lapp The Newspaper Aufbau, its Evolving Politics, and the Problem of German-Jewish Identity, 1939-1955," Michael A. Meyer, "In the East Lie My Roots; My Branches in the West." The Distinctiveness of the Jews of Posen in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century," Eliezer Sariel, "Taboo and Classification: Post-1945 German Racial Writing on Jews," Amos Morris-Reich, ""In the Beginning was the Garden": Arthur Schnitzler and the Politicization of Jewish Identities in Fin-de-Sie`cle Central Europe," Ilse Josepha Lazaroms, "Identity Politics and the Jewish Body in Edgar Hilsenrath's "The Nazi and the Barber","Verena Hutter,
"Wissenschaft in Context: A Research Essay on the Wissenschaft des Judentums," Kerstin von der Krone and Mirjam Thulin.
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