Aktuelles – SPP Jüdisches Kulturerbe

Ankündigung: The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate German Refugee Rabbis in the United States, 1933–2010 – Cornelia Wilhelm (Open access-Version verfügbar – Erscheinungsmonat der Print-Version: Oktober 2024)

Meticulously researched and representing the only systematic analysis of prosopographical data in a digital humanities database, The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate reveals the trials of those who had lost so much and celebrates the legacy they made for themselves in America.

Ankündigung: The Moralization of Jewish Heritage in Germany. Sustaining Jewish Life in the Twenty-First Century – Sarah M. Ross (Erscheinungsdatum 15. November 2024)

Framing the results of her long-term ethnography among agents active in the production of music in present-day German-Jewish communities and non-Jewish institutions along theoretical postulates of Critical Heritage Studies and the idea of the “moralization” of post-War Jewish existence in Germany, Ross addresses two sensitive issues: first, how discrete social, political, economic and cultural interests of Jewish and non-Jewish agents determine the criteria for the selective preservation of German-Jewish musical heritage, its circulation and performance in Germany today; second, how meaningful, if at all, is the maintenance and reconstruction of this Jewish musical heritage of the past for members of a young generation of German Jews who have no memories of the pre-War (or even the pre-unification) period or (more commonly) no roots in Germany at all.