The Future of the German-Jewish Past

Gideon Reuveni is the acting director of the Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. His central research and teaching interests are the cultural and social history of modern European, Jewish history and the Holocaust. Reuveni has published widely on diverse topics such as historiography, sports, reading culture, and Jewish economic history. His most recent book is Consumer Culture and the Making of Modern Jewish Identity, which won the 2018 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience. Diana Franklin is manager of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex. She has worked at the centre since it was founded in 1995 by Edward Timms. Franklin's background as a second-generation German-Jewish immigrant to the United Kingdom informs her ideas about the place of relationships of refugees to their host societies.

Acknowledgments The Future of the German-Jewish Past Starts Here, by Gideon Reuveni THE PERSONAL, THE HISTORICAL, AND THE MAKING OF GERMAN-JEWISH MEMORY "No More Mr. Nice Guy": Questioning the Ideal of Assimilation, by Alan Posener Generation in Flux: Diasporic Reflections on the Future of German-Jewishness, by Sheer Ganor Home on the Balcony: New Initiatives for the Preservation of Documents and Material Objects Relating to German-Jewish History, by Joachim Schloer From Object to Subject: Representing Jews and Jewishness at the Jewish Museum Berlin, by Michal Friedlander Past Imperfect, Future Tense: A Mother's Letter about Loss, Storytelling, and the Profound Ambivalence of the German-Jewish Legacy, by Nicola Glucksmann LOOKING BACK TO FUTURE VISIONS OF THE GERMAN-JEWISH PAST The Ever-Dying Jewry? Prophets of Doom and theSurvival of European Jewry, by Michael Brenner The Thin Crust of Civilization: Lessons from the German-Jewish Past, by Mathias Berek The Dialectics of Tradition: German-Jewish Studies and the Future, by Galili Shahar "Noch ist unsere Hoffnung nicht dahin!" Fritz Pinkuss's View on Germans, Jews, and the Universal Value of the German-Jewish Past, by Bjoern Siegel GERMAN-JEWISHNESS AND DIFFERENCE On the Possibilities and Impossibilities of Being Jewish in Postwar Germany, by Sandra Anusiewicz-Baer Jewish Studies without the "Other", by Klaus Hoedl Rethinking Jews, Antisemitism, and Jewish Differencein Postwar Germany, by Lisa Silverman Newspaper Feuilletons: Reflections on the Possibilities of German-Jewish Authorship and Literature, by Liliane Weissberg THE GERMAN-ISRAELI COMPLEX Navigating Mythical Time: Israeli Jewish Migrants and the Identity Play of Mirrors, by Dani Kranz "The Sun Does Not Shine, It Radiates": On National(ist) Mergings in German Philosemitic Imagery of Tel Aviv, by Hannah C. Tzuberi Does the German-Jewish Past Have a Future in Israel?, by Moshe Zimmermann NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR GERMAN-JEWISH STUDIES The Psychology of Antisemitism Revisited, by Anthony D. Kauders Jewish and German: The Leo Baeck Institute Archives and Library, by Frank Mecklenburg Toward a Transnational Jewish Historiography: Reflections on a Possible Future Path for the German-Jewish Past, by Guy Miron Digital German-Jewish Futures: Experiential Learning, Activism, and Entertainment, by Kerry Wallach Contributors Index

"These diverse voices and critical perspectives stake out the vibrant landscape of German Jewish studies in the twenty-first century. The essential project of studying the memory and history of German-speaking Jewry continues, but through a range of new media and methods. We discover a field deeply interconnected with the study of Israel and the Holocaust; museums and memoirs; archives and material culture--and also relevant to contemporary debates in culture and politics. These analyses will be illuminating for anyone following today's headlines about Germany and the Jewish world." --Abigail Gillman, Professor of Hebrew, German, and Comparative Literature, Boston University