Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook - 2008

by Grenville, J. A. S; Gross, Raphael; Liberles, Robert (CON); Rahaman, Gabriele (CON)

• ISBN13: 9781845456276
• ISBN10: 1845456270
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-01
• Publisher: Berghahn Books

Summary

The Leo Baeck Institute, which has offices in London, New York, and Jerusalem, has a long and distinguished history. It was founded in 1955 for the study of the history and culture of German-speaking Central European jewry and named in honor of the man who was the last representative figure of German jewry in Germany during the Nazi period.

Table of Contents

The Perception of Jews in German Society

Yiddish-Language of Conversion? Linguistic Adaptation and its Limits in Early Modern Judenmission

Colonialism and the Antisenmites during the Kaiserreich: Bernhard Dernburg and the Antisemites

Publishing the Moses Mendelssohn Jubiläet;umsausgabe in Weimar and Nazi Germany

Der Spiegel and the Image of Jews in Germany: The Early Years, 1947-1956

Immigration and Cultural Exchange

Immigration and Change: German Jewish Presences in the United States and Germany, 25-27 March 2007, New York. A Conference Report

Reflections on Hitler's Refugees in the United States. Keynote Speech

"A Very Modest Experiment"-The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosúa, 1940-1945

German Jews as Provincial Cosmopolitans: Reflections from the Upper West Side

The Democratic Promise: The Impact of German-Jewish Immigration of Social Work in the United States

Restitution

The Restitution of Jewish Cultural Objects and the Activities of Jewish Cultural Reconstruction Inc

Memoir

"...what the word liberty means to me now." Harry Lipstadt's Imprisonment and Escape from Hamburg

Bibliography for 2007

List of Contributors

Index

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