Colonialism and the Jews in German History

From the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

AvStefan Vogt,Germany) Vogt, Dr Stefan (Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main

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Colonialism and the Jews in German History brings together new and path-breaking studies on the historical relationship between colonialism and the Jews in Germany. The book considers the mutual influences on the situation of the Jews in Germany, including attitudes towards Jews and anti-Semitism but also Jewish self-conceptions, and the ideology and politics of German colonialism. The contributors discuss the ways in which colonial ideology and practice have affected the position of the Jews in Germany, and the relationship between anti-Semitism and colonial racism. In doing so, the volume introduces German colonialism as a relevant context for German-Jewish history, and it expands the perspective on German colonial history significantly by considering Jews both as distinct objects and also as agents within the field of German colonialism. The volume includes studies on the pre-colonial era, the phase of active German colonialism since the 1880s, and the time after Germany lost its colonies in the First World War. All these studies testify to the fact that German-Jewish history takes on additional significance if seen as part of a global history of collective relationships.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-07-14
Mått156 x 234 x 25 mm
Vikt650 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350155718

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List of FiguresList of ContributorsAcknowledgements1. Introduction (Stefan Vogt, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)Part I - The Pre-Colonial Era2. Antisemitism and Colonial Racism: Genealogical Perspectives (Claudia Bruns, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)3. Sugar Island Jews? Jewish Colonialism and the Rhetoric of ‘Civic Improvement’ in 18th-Century Germany (Jonathan Hess, University of North Carolina, USA)4. Racism, Antisemitism and Acheivement: Christoph Meiners and his Theory of the Nonequivalence of Human Beings (Felix Axster, Center for Antisemitism Research, Germany)5. Boundary as Barrier, Boundary as Bridge: Colonialism and the Scholarly Quest for Boundaries (Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College, USA)Part II - The Colonial Era6. The Role of Anti-Semitism for Colonial Racism (Ulrike Hamann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)7. From Colonialism to Antisemitism and Back: Ideological Developments in the Alldeutsche Verband during the Kaiserreich (Stefan Vogt, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)8. 'Our Dernburg' - 'The New Moses': The German Empire’s Jewish Colonial Director (1906–1910): ‘Our Dernburg’ – ‘The New Moses’ (Axel Stähler, University of Kent, UK)10. A Paradigm for Repatriation Projects: The African-American and the Zionest examples and the interrelationship (Mark Gelber, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)Part III - The Post-Colonial Era10. The Predicaments of Non-Nationalist Nationalism: Hans Kohn’s and Hannah Arendt's Anti-Colonial Thinking during and after World War II (Christian Wiese, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)11. Colonial Revisionism and the Emin Pasha Myth in Weimar and Nazi Germany (Christian S. Davis, James Madison University, USA)12. Trauma, Privilege, and Adventure in the "Orient": German Jewish Refugees in Iran and India (Atina Grossmann, The Cooper Union, USA)BibliographyIndex of names

If there was a prize for the most outstanding anthology in Jewish Studies, German Studies, and history that outpaces all the earlier scholarship, Colonialism and the Jews in German History: From the Middle Ages to the 20th Century, edited by Stefan Vogt, would surely contend for top honours. This is a highly significant and unusually timely body of work. It is presented in a sophisticated yet accessible way. Vogt’s superb introduction, filled with deep insight, good sense, and informed by an unusual breadth and depth of scholarship, is followed by a series of masterful essays. A potential political minefield that is simply ignored by many, or dismissed in stark terms, has been treated with painstaking research and thoughtfulness.