Jews And Jewish Education In Germany Today

Author : Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Olaf Glöckner,Yitzhak Sternberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004201170

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Jews and Jewish Education in Germany Today by Eliezer Ben-Rafael,Olaf Glöckner,Yitzhak Sternberg Pdf

In the context of their recent dispersion, Russian-speaking Jews have become the vast majority of Germany’s longstanding Jewry. An entity marked by permeable boundaries, they show commitment to world Jewry, including Israel, but feeble identification with their hosts. While Jewish singularity is understood here more as “belonging” than “believing”, Jewish education is viewed as a must.

Author : Solomon Colodner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Jewish day schools
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004050352

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Jewish Education in Germany Under the Nazis by Solomon Colodner Pdf

In the 1930's in Germany Jewish children were not permitted to attend public schools. Therefore it became necessary to create a Jewish school system. This is one of the few documented works on the subject.

Author : Olaf Glöckner,Haim Fireberg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110395747

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Being Jewish in 21st-Century Germany by Olaf Glöckner,Haim Fireberg Pdf

An unexpected immigration wave of Jews from the former Soviet Union mostly in the 1990s has stabilized and enlarged Jewish life in Germany. Jewish kindergartens and schools were opened, and Jewish museums, theaters, and festivals are attracting a wide audience. No doubt: Jews will continue to live in Germany. At the same time, Jewish life has undergone an impressing transformation in the second half of the 20th century– from rejection to acceptance, but not without disillusionments and heated debates. And while the ‘new Jews of Germany,’ 90 percent of them of Eastern European background, are already considered an important factor of the contemporary Jewish diaspora, they still grapple with the shadow of the Holocaust, with internal cultural clashes and with difficulties in shaping a new collective identity. What does it mean to live a Jewish life in present-day Germany? How are Jewish thoughts, feelings, and practices reflected in contemporary arts, literature, and movies? What will remain of the former German Jewish cultural heritage? Who are the new Jewish elites, and how successful is the fight against anti-Semitism? This volume offers some answers.

Author : Monika Richarz
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Jewish students
ISBN : 9781640141155

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German Jews and the University, 1678-1848 by Monika Richarz Pdf

Traces the gradual opening of university education in Germany to Jews, its significance for assimilation to the bourgeoisie, and the legal restrictions that nonetheless barred Jewish graduates from most professional careers.

Author : Angela Kuttner Botelho
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110732061

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German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion by Angela Kuttner Botelho Pdf

This book explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story of one family as it grapples with the meaning of its Jewish origins in a post-Holocaust, post-conversionary milieu. Utilizing archival family texts and multiple interviews spanning three generations, beginning with the author’s German Jewish parents, 1940s refugees, and engaging the insights of contemporary scholars, the book traces the impact of a contested Jewish identity on the deconstruction and reconstruction of the Jewish self. The Holocaust as post-memory and the impact of the German Jewish culture personified by the author’s parents leads to a retrieval of a lost Jewish identity, postmodern in its implications, reinforcing the concept of Judaism as ultimately a family affair. Focusing on the personal to illuminate a complex historical phenomenon, this book proposes a new cultural history that challenges conventional boundaries of what is Jewish and what is not.

Author : Deborah Hertz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300150032

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How Jews Became Germans by Deborah Hertz Pdf

A “very readable” history of Jewish conversions to Christianity over two centuries that “tracks the many fascinating twists and turns to this story” (Library Journal). When the Nazis came to power and created a racial state in the 1930s, they considered it an urgent priority to identify Jews who had converted to Christianity over the preceding centuries. With the help of church officials, a vast system of conversion and intermarriage records was created in Berlin, the country’s premier Jewish city. Deborah Hertz’s discovery of these records, the Judenkartei, was the first step on a long research journey that led to this compelling book. Hertz begins the book in 1645, when the records begin, and traces generations of German Jewish families for the next two centuries. The book analyzes the statistics and explores letters, diaries, and other materials to understand in a far more nuanced way than ever before why Jews did or did not convert to Protestantism. Focusing on the stories of individual Jews in Berlin, particularly the charismatic salon woman Rahel Levin Varnhagen and her husband, Karl, a writer and diplomat, Hertz brings out the human stories behind the documents, sets them in the context of Berlin’s evolving society, and connects them to the broad sweep of European history.

Author : Miriam Rürup
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805394549

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Social History of German Jews by Miriam Rürup Pdf

Tracing the social history of modern German Jews from the end of the 18th century up to the aftermath of World War II, Miriam Rürup follows their ascent into the middle and upper middle classes through repeated experiences of setbacks but also of self-assertion. In doing so it is explained how Jewish life changed under the auspices of emancipation and what impact these changes had on the demographic and social profile of the Jewish minority. With a focus on the daily interactions between Jews and other Germans when choosing a home, profession, or school, for example, Social History of German Jews shows the contrasting processes of integration and exclusion in a new light.

Author : Horst Junginger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004341883

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The Scientification of the "Jewish Question" in Nazi Germany by Horst Junginger Pdf

During the time of the Third Reich a vibrant "Jew research” arose. In its core it combined religious and racial studies to reinvigorate Christian anti-Judaism and to substantiate the political measures against the Jews on a new scientific basis.

Author : Ephraim Kanarfogel
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Education
ISBN : 081432164X

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Jewish Education and Society in the High Middle Ages by Ephraim Kanarfogel Pdf

Demonstrates the connection between the Tosafot, Talmudic and halakhic compositions by 12th and 13th century, and the social life of the community, both of which topics have been studied extensively, but separately. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Micha Brumlik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Holocaust survivors
ISBN : NWU:35556023265820

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The Situation of the Jews in Today's Germany by Micha Brumlik Pdf

Author : Vladimir Ze’ev Khanin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110791075

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The Jews of Contemporary Post-Soviet States by Vladimir Ze’ev Khanin Pdf

Since the end of the USSR, post-Soviet Jewry has evolved into an ethnically and culturally diverse Russian speaking community. This process is taking place against the gradual inflation of a collective identity among Russian-speaking Jews that survived the first post-Soviet decade. The infrastructure for this new entity is provided by new local (or ethno-civic) groups of East European Ashkenazi Jewry with specific communal, subcultural, and ethno-political identities (“Ukrainian,” “Moldavian,” or “Russian” Jews, e.g.). These communities demonstrate a changing balance of identification between their countries of residence and the “transnational Russian-Jewish community”, and they absorb a significant number of persons of non-Jewish and ethnically heterogeneous origins as well. This book discusses identity, community modes, migration dynamics, socioeconomic status, attitudes toward Israel, social and political environments, and other parameters framing these trends using the results of a comprehensive sociological study of the extended Jewish population conducted in 2019–2020 by this author in the five former-Soviet Union countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, and Kazakhstan).

Author : Hagar Figler
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-03-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783638016070

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Judaism in Germany by Hagar Figler Pdf

Essay from the year 2006 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Applied Geography, grade: 1, IDC (IDC), language: English, abstract: Today, more than 100.000 Jews live in Germany. The Jewish world in Germany, with 83 local communities, is the third largest in Western Europe and the fastest growing in the world after Israel itself. After the horrors of the Shoah, this comes close to being a miracle. Jews have lived in Germany for almost 2.000 years, ever since Roman times, and the Jewish history and heritage in Germany are amazingly rich and diverse. However, the German-Jewish relationship will forever be marked by the Shoah. The memories will never disappear, and the Jewish people’s relationship with Germany will for a long time, if not forever be strongly influenced by the Shoah.

Author : Keith Pickus
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814343517

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Constructing Modern Identities by Keith Pickus Pdf

The emergence of Jewish student associations in 1881 provided a forum for Jews to openly proclaim their religious heritage. By examining the lives and social dynamics of Jewish university students, Keith Pickus shows how German Jews rearranged their self-images and redefined what it meant to be Jewish. Not only did the identities crafted by these students enable them to actively participate in German society, they also left an indelible imprint on contemporary Jewish culture. Pickus's portrayal of the mutability and social function of Jewish self-definition challenges previous scholarship that depicts Jewish identity as a static ideological phenomenon. By illuminating how identities fluctuated throughout life, he demonstrates that adjusting one's social relationships to accommodate the Gentile and Jewish worlds became the norm rather than the exception for 19th-century German Jews.

Author : Jeffrey M. Peck
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0813537231

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Being Jewish in the New Germany by Jeffrey M. Peck Pdf

"This book was written for an American (Jewish) readership. But some chapters, especially the first two, address the non-specialist, while others, especially the last two, accommodate the expert. The work contains one theme and one thesis. The theme is simple and to be welcomed: Americans, and American Jews in particular, need to understand that Germany has changed and that its Jewish community is made up of more than just a few souls morbidly attached to blood-soaked soil. We are therefore introduced to Jewish writers, politicians and intellectuals; to Jews of Russian origin, German background and Israeli descent; and to the many issues facing today's German-Jewish community of 100,000 plus members. Peck discusses the role of the Holocaust in German and American political life. He relates how Russian Jews have begun to take over community institutions, revitalizing German Jewry especially in Berlin and the provinces. And he compares and contrasts the situation of Turks and Jews today, whom many Germans still perecive as foreign, no matter how acculturated they happen to be. All of this material is interesting, but not new"--Review from H-Net.

Author : Michael Brenner,Derek J. Penslar
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0253212243

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In Search of Jewish Community by Michael Brenner,Derek J. Penslar Pdf

" . . . an excellent collection . . . well written and cogently argued." —David N. Myers The history of Jews in interwar Germany and Austria is often viewed either as the culmination of tremendous success in the economic and cultural realms and of individual assimilation and acculturation, or as the beginning of the road that led to Auschwitz. By contrast, this volume demonstrates a reemerging sense of community within the German-speaking Jewish population of these two countries in the two decades after World War I.