Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History

Simone Lässig, Miriam Rürup, Simone Lässig, Miriam Rürup

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781789205121, 9781785335532
• eBook ISBN: 9781785335549
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: German History
• Index: History

What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German history to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them both within and outside of Jewish communities, and what the implications have been across different eras and social contexts. Working from an expansive concept of "the spatial," these contributions look not only at physical sites but at professional, political, institutional, and imaginative realms, as well as historical Jewish experiences of spacelessness. Together, they encompass spaces as varied as early modern print shops and Weimar cinema, always pointing to the complex intertwining of German and Jewish identity.

Table of contents

• Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction: What Made a Space "Jewish"? Reconsidering a Category of Modern German History
• Part I — Imaginations: Remembrance and Representation of Spaces and Boundaries
• Chapter 1 — Of Sounds and Stones: The Jewish-Christian Contact Zone of a Swiss Village in the Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 2 — Imaginations of the Ghetto: Jewish Debates on Ghettos and Jewish Society in Late Nineteenth-Century Galicia
• Chapter 3 — Modernization and Memory in German-Jewish History
• Chapter 4 — From Place to Race and Back Again: The Jewishness of Psychoanalysis Revisited
• Chapter 5 — Jewish Displacement and Simulation in the German Films of E. A. Dupont
• Chapter 6 — Layered Pasts: The Judengasse in Frankfurt and Narrating German-Jewish History after the Holocaust
• Part II — Transformations: Emergences, Shifts, and Dissolutions in Spaces and Boundaries
• Chapter 7 — The Representation and Creation of Spaces through Print Media: Some Insights from the History of the Jewish Press
• Chapter 8 — Out of the Ghetto, Into the Middle Class: Changing Perspectives on Jewish Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Germany—The Case of Synagogues and Jewish Burial Grounds
• Chapter 9 — Spatial Variations and Locations: Synagogues at the Intersection of Architecture, Town, and Imagination
• Chapter 10 — Jewish Philanthropy and the Formation of Modernity: Baron de Hirsch and His Vision of Jewish Spaces in European Societies
• Chapter 11 — Reconstructing Jewishness, Deconstructing the Past: Reading Berlin's Scheunenviertel over the Course of the Twentieth Century
• Part III — Practices: Negotiating, Experiencing, and Appropriating Spaces and Boundaries
• Chapter 12 — A Hybrid Space of Knowledge and Communication: Hebrew Printing in Jessnitz, 1718–1745
• Chapter 13 — Faith in Residence: Jewish Spatial Practice in the Urban Context
• Chapter 14 — Photography as Jewish Space
• Chapter 15 — Jews, Foreigners, and the Space of the Postwar Economy: The Case of Munich's Möhlstrasse
• Chapter 16 — Creating a Bavarian Space for Rapprochement: The Jewish Museum Munich
• Chapter 17 — Real Imaginary Spaces and Places: Virtual, Actual, and Otherwise
• Index