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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"German-Jewish"”.
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Arthur Schnitzler and Jakob Wassermann: a struggle of German-Jewish identities
… of Schnitzler’s stance on the so-called ‘Jewish Question’: a concept one may term enlightened apolitical individualism. Enlightened for Schnitzler’s rejection of Jewish orthodoxy, apolitical because he always remained strongly averse to politics in general, and individualism because …
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The distorted image: German Jewish perceptions of Germans and Germany, 1918-1935
<p>The regime confronting German Jewry in 1933 was of a type unprecedented in German history. Yet the German Jewish responses were, on the whole, consistent with responses to former regimes. There was little resistance, relatively little emigration until 1935 to 1938, pledges of loyalty to the new …
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“Matters have improved beyond description”: Archaeology of Alexandria, Virginia’s German Jewish community
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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The German Jewish Post-Holocaust Novel: Narrative and a Literary Language for Loss
… dissertation investigates how a constellation of German Jewish post-Holocaust novels confronts the paradox of recovering and recuperating lost stories of Holocaust victims. I analyze how works by Edgar Hilsenrath, Jurek Becker, and Fred Wander reveal a preoccupation with the innumerable stories …
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German-Jewish Relations in the Works and Lives of German-Speaking Nobel Literature Laureates
German-Jewish relations has been a widely studied field, often with the intent of understanding or explaining exactly why and how a modern state could have developed a system of mass genocide. While scholars tend to view the Judenfrage - a socially and politically charged debate about the place of …
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Jews Behind Glass: The Ethnographic Impulse in German-Jewish and Yiddish Literature, 1900-1948
This dissertation demonstrates that German and Yiddish literature about Jews from the turn of the twentieth century until after the Holocaust is characterized by several discourses and tropes borrowed from contemporary ethnography, anthropology, and folklore studies. The influence of these …
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Avery Brundage and the 1936 Olympic Games
… the Olympic Games had already been awarded to Germany. In the early phase of Nazi rule, Jews were expelled from sport clubs, making it impossible for them to train for, or participate in, the 1936 Olympics. The Amateur Athletic Union and American Olympic Committee, the organizations responsible …
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Memory and Destruction: A Psychiatric Approach to Understanding Literary Depictions of Air Raids in World War II
… the air raids have indeed been a topic of German literature and several narratives are discussed in the thesis (Nossack, Borchert, Ledig, Kluge, Kempowski, Forte). In addition, German-Jewish accounts of the bombings (Kemperer, Biermann), displaying the mixed view of them as both horror and …
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Religions of Doubt: Religion, Critique, and Modernity in Jalal Al-e Ahmad and Walter Benjamin
… and political thinker Jalal Al-e Ahmad and the German-Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin. I demonstrate that the perceived failure of utopian modern projects, particularly Marxism, led each of these twentieth century thinkers to re-engage with religious questions and concerns in a …
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Peter Jona Korn: An Introduction to His Works for the Oboe
… Korn’s life bore similarities to many other German-Jewish composers of the twentieth century, as he, like Arnold Schoenberg, Stefan Wolpe, and Kurt Weill, was forced to flee Germany to escape Nazi persecution. However, unlike composers who turned away from tonality, searching for other modes …
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The history of Yiddish theatre in South Africa from the late nineteenth century to 1960
… However with Czarist persecution and the great Jewish migration from Eastern Europe, the 1880s it had spread to Western Europe, the Americas, and South Africa. This dissertation attempts to answer the question as to why of all Eastern Europe's diasporas, Yiddish theatre at no stage put down …
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Photography, memory and identity: the émigré photographer Lisel Haas (1898-1989)
This thesis explores the work of the German-Jewish photographer, Lisel Haas (1898 – 1989). It focuses on a selection of her portrait photographs spanning a period of almost 40 years, from before the Second World War to the early 1970s. Haas’s work has not been the focus of any publication to date; …
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B'Seder : the design of a social medium for Polish and Jewish communities
"The history of the Polish-Jewish relationship is...the embattled terrain of several collective memories, each with its claim to moral legitimacy, and each charged with fierce and sometimes vehement feelings." These contested histories are the source of tension and animosity between Poles and Jews …
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German Politics and the 'Jewish Question', 1914-1919
The First World War confronted German politicians with a range of unprecedented, vital questions in the spheres of domestic as well as foreign policy. As the fortunes of war shifted, so did borders, populations and national allegiances. In a period of acute and almost constant political crisis, the …
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Policy and Practice in Franco-Jewish Migrant Aid
… co-ethnic migrant aid policies and practices of Jewish organisations in France between 1881 and 1975. Drawing on primary and secondary historical sources, the thesis is structured around three historical case studies of organised Jewish aid mobilisation. The first case study examines the …
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Reshaping Memory: Counter-Narratives in Kindertransport Literature
… publications, ranging from her poems on the Jewish condition to her novels on the estrangement of German Jewish refugees in Britain, complicates perceptions of the redemptive celebratory narrative by complicating Britain's hospitable image. Barnett's corpus, which began with her academic …
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FILIATIONS OF THE NEGATIVE IN FRANZ KAFKA, PAUL CELAN, AND ANDRE GREEN
… theoretical framework developed by the French-Jewish psychoanalyst André Green (1927-2012) the dissertation investigates the work of the Negative in the late writings of two crucial German-Jewish authors: Franz Kafka (1883-1924) and Paul Celan (1920-1970). Providing a new interdisciplinary …
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A study of the nature and development of orthodox Judaism in South Africa to c.1935
… from Anglo-Jewry and, to a lesser extent, from German-Jewish stock, on the one hand, and those who came from Eastern Europe, particularly after 1880, on the other hand. At all times, the impact of the wider South African context on the nature of South African Judaism is considered. The harsh …
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Exploring the Zionist evolution of Robert Briscoe: History and memory
… was the Dublin born son of Lithuanian and German-Jewish immigrants. As a young man he joined Sinn Féin and was an important figure in the War of Independence due to a role as one of the IRA’s main gun-procuring agents. He took the anti-Treaty side during an internecine Civil War, mainly due …
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Old masters and aspirations : the Randlords, art and South Africa
… capitalists, many of whom were from middle-class German-Jewish backgrounds, made vast fortunes from exploiting deposits of gold and diamonds in South Africa, using local labour. These mining magnates accumulated their wealth first in Kimberley in the 1870s and, later, in Johannesburg in the late …
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