The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate

Cornelia Wilhelm is Professor of modern history at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet, Munich. Her work focuses on comparative and transnational aspects of (Jewish) history and on race, ethnicity, migration, and religion. She is author of Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity: The Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith and True Sisters and, in German, Bewegung oder Verein? Nationalsozialistische Volkstumspolitik in den USA (Movement or association: Nazi "Volkstumspolitik [racialized ethnic politics]" in the United States). Currently she works on a digital research portal highlighting the cultural transfers related to the emigration of the German rabbinate after 1933.

Introduction: Understanding "The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate" 1. German Jewry under Nazism: Changes and Challenges for the Rabbinical Profession 2. Rescue and Flight: Scholars and Students-And a Visa That Saved Lives 3. Flight and Rescue: Rabbis-And a Visa That Saved Lives 4. The Refugees' First Years in the United States: Employment, Settlement, Congregations, and the Encounter with American Society and American Judaism 5. Careers Lost and Found: Paths of Professional Success and Failure and the Making of "the Last Generation of the German Rabbinate" 6. Refugee Returns: Transatlantic Encounters and the Legacy of the "Last Generation of the German Rabbinate" Conclusion Notes Bibliography