Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2014. LVIX.
London: Published for the Institute by Secker & Warburg, 2014. Hardbound. Octavo in dust jacket, frontispiece photo, xiv, 304 pp., b/w illustrations, bibliography, list of contributors, index. Very Good. Item #91654
Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin and Raphael Gross. Articles are "Emancipation through Consumption: Moses Mendelssohn and the Idea of Marketplace Citizenship,"
Gideon Reuveni, "A Gracious Act or Merely a Regulation of Economic Activity? A Daily Life Perspective on the Reception of the Prussian Emancipation Edict of 1812," Michal Szulc, "The Citizen and its Other: Zionist and Israeli Responses to Statelessness," Miriam Rürup, "German Jews and the Local German Press: The Jewish Struggle for Acceptance in Constance, 1846," David A. Meola, "Conservative Ideological Resurgence, Nationalist Rallying, and Students: The German Burschenschaft and Antisemitism, 1890–1900," Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker, "Transnational Press Discourses on German Antisemitism during the Weimar Republic: The Riots in Berlin’s Scheunenviertel, 1923," Stephanie Seul, "Language as the Main Protagonist? East Frisian Yiddish in the Writing of Isaac Herzberg,"
Gertrud Reershemius," “A Few Human Beings Walking Hand in Hand”: Margarete Susman, Leonhard Ragaz, and the Origins of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Zurich," Susanne Hillman, "The Politics of Arabella: Post-Wagnerian Opera and the German-Jewish Quest for Lyrical Individualism, 1928–1933," Uri Ganani, "Hannah Arendt's Dedication to Salvaging Jewish Culture," Dov Schidorsky, "Repetition and Loss: Jewish Refugees and German Communists after the Holocaust, 1945–1951," Jonathan R. Zatlin, "The Rebirth of a Nation:Cinema, Herzlian Zionism, and Emotion in Jewish History," Niicholas Baer, "Melancholy Journeys in the Films of Ruth Beckermann," Katya Krylova, "The Appropriation of Myth as a ‘Language’ in Julya Rabinowich’s ‘Jewish’ Novels," Andrea Reiter.
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