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Three-Way Street: Jews, Germans, and the Transnational

Jay Howard Geller and Leslie Morris, Editors
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As German Jews emigrated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and as exiles from Nazi Germany, they carried the traditions, culture, and particular prejudices of their home with them. At the same time, Germany—and Berlin in particular—attracted both secular and religious Jewish scholars from eastern Europe. They engaged in vital intellectual exchange with German Jewry, although their cultural and religious practices differed greatly, and they absorbed many cultural practices that they brought back to Warsaw or took with them to New York and Tel Aviv. After the Holocaust, German Jews and non-German Jews educated in Germany were forced to reevaluate their essential relationship with Germany and Germanness as well as their notions of Jewish life outside of Germany.

 

Among the first volumes to focus on German-Jewish transnationalism, this interdisciplinary collection spans the fields of history, literature, film, theater, architecture, philosophy, and theology as it examines the lives of significant emigrants. The individuals whose stories are reevaluated include German Jews Ernst Lubitsch, David Einhorn, and Gershom Scholem, the architect Fritz Nathan and filmmaker Helmar Lerski; and eastern European Jews David Bergelson, Der Nister, Jacob Katz, Joseph Soloveitchik, and Abraham Joshua Heschel—figures not normally associated with Germany. Three-Way Street addresses the gap in the scholarly literature as it opens up critical ways of approaching Jewish culture not only in Germany, but also in other locations, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

 

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part 1: To Germany, from Germany: The Promise of an Unpromised Land?
    • 1. Love, Money, and Career in the Life of Rosa Luxemburg
    • 2. The “Triple Immersion”: A Singular Moment in Modern Jewish Intellectual History?
    • 3. Yiddish Writers/German Models in the Early Twentieth Century
    • 4. The Symphony of a Great Heimat: Zionism as a Cure for Weimar Crisis in Lerski’s Avodah
  • Part 2: Germany, the Portable Homeland
    • 5. “I Have Been a Stranger in a Foreign Land”: The Scholem Brothers and German-Jewish Émigré Identity
    • 6. Lost in the Transnational: Photographic Initiatives of Walter and Helmut Gernsheim in Britain
    • 7. Transnational Jewish Comedy: Sex and Politics in the Films of Ernst Lubitsch—From Berlin to Hollywood
    • 8. America Abandoned: German-Jewish Visions of American Poverty in Serialized Novels by Joseph Roth, Sholem Asch, and Michael Gold
    • 9. “Irgendwo auf der Welt”: The Emigration of Jews from Nazi Germany as a Transnational Experience
    • 10. Transnational Jewish Refugee Stories: Displacement, Loss, and (Non)Restitution
  • Part 3: A Masterable Past? German-Jewish Transnationalism in a Post-Holocaust Era
    • 11. “Normalization and Its Discontents”: The Transnational Legacy of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany
    • 12. Between Memory and Normalcy: Synagogue Architecture in Postwar Germany
    • 13. Klezmer in the New Germany: History, Identity, and Memory
    • 14. (Trans)National Spaces: Jewish Sites in Contemporary Germany
  • Contributors
  • Index
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Published: 2016
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
ISBN(s)
  • 978-0-472-13012-2 (hardcover)
  • 978-0-472-90257-6 (open access)
Series
  • Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany
Subject
  • German Studies
  • Cultural Studies
  • History
  • Jewish Studies
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