This volume bears the fruits of the authors' discussions about Jewish periodicals, based on their unique inherited textual tradition and focusing on the visionary Ashkenazy press. Transcending the conventional focus on the nation state, readers can trace a border-free journey of Jewish periodicals and discover hitherto neglected entanglements.
Starting from the premise that all Jewish periodicals are the material heirs of a unique textual tradition, the authors of this volume -researchers from Germany, Austria, Israel, Belarus, the UK, and the US - have distilled here the fruits of their interactive discussions. Their inquiry sets out to scrutinize the history of the Ashkenazy Jewish press as a history of the visions it advocated. It transcends the conventional approach which focusses on the context of the nation state. Thus, the reader can trace the journey of Jewish periodicals as they migrated seamlessly across national borders and languages, and hence discover geopolitical and generational entanglements that have so far been largely neglected.
Table of contents:
I. The Surplus Value of the German-Jewish Press as a Source for the Scholar of History
Moshe Zimmermann: Zum historiografischen Mehrwert der deutsch-jüdischen Presse -
David A. Meola: »Press«ing for Rights. Jews and the Vormärz German Press
II. Transcending the Focus on the Nation State
Susanne Marten-Finnis: Towards Cosmopolitanism. Yiddish Periodical Culture in Berlin, 1918-1931 -
Anne-Christin Klotz: A briv fun Daytshland. Die jüdischen Deutschlandkorrespondenten, Berichterstattung und Repression um 1933 -
Nicolas Dreyer: The Transcultural Alignment of the Journal
Voskhod with Reform Judaism: Promoting Acculturation and Emancipation while Opposing Assimilation -
Igor Dukhan: Perplexed Contemporaneity. El Lissitzky's Contributions to Yiddish and Avant-Garde Periodicals in Germany, 1921-1925
III. Transformed Visions
Tilmann Gempp-Friedrich: Leserinnen- und Leserkommunikation in der Presse des »Centralvereins« -
Johann Nicolai: Das Netzwerk der Journalisten der
C. V.-Zeitung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg -
Dekel Peretz: Altneuland - A German Colonial Journal
IV. Permeability: Geographical and Generational Entanglements
Katrin Steffen: Die Posener Heimatblätter (1926-1938) als Medium einer preußisch-jüdischen Diaspora nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg -
Michael John: Ein Experiment. Jüdische Presse in der österreichischen »Provinz« 1919-1938 -
Marie Ch. Behrendt: Die Öffentlichkeitsarbeit des Council of Jews from Germany in deutsch-jüdischen Nachkriegsperiodika. Ein quellenkritischer Beitrag
