The Future of the German-Jewish Past by Gideon Reuveni Diana Franklin

Author:Gideon Reuveni, Diana Franklin [Gideon Reuveni, Diana Franklin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781557537119
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Publisher: Purdue University Press
Published: 2020-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The research for this article was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), grant P31036-G28.

NOTES

1. See Moshe Rosman, How Jewish Is Jewish History? (Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2007), 4.

2. Klaus Hödl, “Jewish Studies without Jews: The Growth of an Academic Field in Austria and Germany,” in Maven in Blue Jeans. A Festschrift in Honor of Zev Garber, ed. Steven Leonard Jacobs (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2009), 200–201.

3. Gerhard Bodendorfer, “Ein Forschungsinstitut für ‘Jüdische Kulturgeschichte’ in Salzburg?!,” in Jüdische Studien: Reflexionen zu Theorie und Praxis eines wissenschaftlichen Feldes, ed. Klaus Hödl (Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2003), 51–72.

4. Cornelius Lehnguth, Waldheim und die Folgen. Der parteipolitische Umgang mit dem Nationalsozialismus in Österreich (Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Verlag, 2013), 91–152.

5. Matti Bunzl, Jews and Queers: Symptoms of Modernity in Late Twentieth-Century Vienna (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 30–32.

6. Richard Mitten, The Politics of Antisemitic Prejudice: The Waldheim Phenomenon in Austria (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992).

7. See “Das Jüdische Museum der Stadt Wien 1993/94. Chronik,” in Wiener Jahrbuch für jüdische Geschichte, Kultur und Museumswesen (Vienna: Verlag Christian Brandstätter, 1994/95), 187–193.

8. A copy of the review can be found among my private papers, and I am happy to make it available to anybody wishing to request it.

9. Paradigmatic examples of scholarly texts in which the authors intend to go beyond the Jewish and non-Jewish binary, but are nonetheless still caught up in dichotomous thinking, are Micha J. Perry and Rebekka Voß, “Approaching Shared Heroes: Cultural Transfer and Transnational Jewish History,” Jewish History 30 (2016): 1–13; Glenn Dynner, ed., Holy Dissent: Jewish and Christian Mystics in Eastern Europe (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2011), 1–2.

10. Stephen Jay Gould, “Deconstructing the ‘Science Wars’ by Reconstructing an Old Mold,” Science 287, no. 5451 (2002): 253.

11. Gould, “Science Wars,” 253. Regarding the issue of whether binary categorizations reflect people’s cultural embeddedness or originate from their “neural substrate,” see also Robert Sapolsky, “This Is Your Brain on Nationalism: The Biology of Us and Them,” Foreign Affairs 98, no. 2 (2019): 42–47.

12. See Neil Asher Silberman, “Rewriting Jewish History,” Archaeology 63, no. 4 (2010): 18, 58; Elisheva Baumgarten, Ruth Mazo Karras, and Katelyn Mesler, eds., Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017); Moshe Rosman, “A Jewish Guide to Medieval Domestic Europe. Review of E. Baumgarten, Mothers and Children: Jewish Family Life in Medieval Europe,” Jewish Quarterly Review 98 (2008): 419; Francesca Bregoli, “Introduction. Connecting Histories: Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe,” in Connecting Histories. Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe, ed. Francesca Bregoli and David B. Ruderman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press), 10. There were, in fact, various exceptions to this view. See David Berger, “A Generation of Scholarship on Jewish-Christian Interaction in the Medieval World,” Tradition 38, no. 2 (2004): 5.

13. Frank Golczewski, “A Jewish Space in an Extreme Context? German Ghettoes for Jews in Eastern Europe during World War II,” in Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces in the Urban Context, ed. Alina Gromova, Felix Heinert, and Sebastian Voigt (Berlin: Neofelis Verlag, 2015), 102.

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