Leo Baeck Institute Year Book 2015. LX.
London: Published for the Institute by Secker & Warburg, 2015. Hardbound. Octavo in dust jacket, frontispiece photo, xvi, 334 pp., b/w illustrations, bibliography, list of contributors, index. Very Good. Item #91655
Preface by Cathy S. Gelbin and Raphael Gross. Articles are "Max Brod and Hans-Joachim Schoeps: Literary Collaborators, Ideological Rivals,"Abraham Rubin, "On Not Writing Hebrew: Max Brod and the ‘Jewish Poet of the German Tongue’ between Prague and Tel Aviv," Sebastian Schirrmeister, "Neglected German-Jewish Visions for a Pluralistic Society: Moritz Lazarus," Mathias Berek,
"On Nathan Birnbaum’s Messianism and Translating the Jewish Other," Nick Block, “To Become a German and Nothing but a German …”: The Role of Paul de Lagarde in the Conversion of Egyptologist Georg Steindorff," Thomas L. Gertzen, "What Is behind God’s Name? Martin Buber’s and Franz Rosenzweig’s Reflections on the Name of God," Andreas Losch, "Leo Baeck and Leon Ader: Friendship Reflected in Correspondence," Anna Novikov, "Der kleine Kohn on the Jewish Stage: A Performative Strategy to Fight Antisemitism in Vienna around 1900,"
Klaus Hödl, "Poetics of Distance: Zalman Shneour in Berlin during the First World War and Its Aftermath*," Lilach Nethanel, "Staging German-Jewish Exile in Else Lasker-Schüler's IchundIch," Ari Linden, "Art of Loss: Madame d'Ora, Photography, and the Restitution of Haus Doranna," Lisa Silverman, "A Policy for the Future: German-Jewish Remigrants, their Children, and the Politics of Israeli Nation-Building," Jannis Panagiotidis, "Yiddish Music and East German Antifascism: Lin Jaldati, Post-Holocaust Jewish Culture, and the Cold War,"
David Shneer, "Rabbi Steven Schwarzschild's Reports from Berlin, 1948–1950,"
Atina Grossmann, "A Note on Steven Schwarzschild and the Letters from Berlin,"
Maimon Schwarzschild, "Report on Berlin for World Union Conference in London, July 14th – 19th, 1949," Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild, "Mixed Marriages and Conversion in Post-War Germany," Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild, "On the Jewish Black-Market in Germany, April 1950," Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild, "Jews in Communist Germany, Aug. 1950," Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild, “Like Hunted Animals”. The November 1938 Pogroms in Rotenburg an der Fulda: Henny Rothschild's Letter from 18 October 1939," by Heinrich Nuhn and Translated by Judith N. Levi.
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