Article on the commemorative year 1700 years of Jewish Life in Germany: “Der ‘gojnormative’ Blick 1700 Jahre jüdisches Leben in Deutschland?”

In issue 32 of Medaon – Magazine for Jewish Life in Research and Education – the two project leaders of the priority program’s research project Knowledge Architectures – Prof. Dr. Dani Kranz and Prof. Dr. Sarah Ross – published an article in the Miscella section on the commemorative year that celebrates 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany. The article takes a critical look at gojnormativity in the context of related commemorative events and the actors involved.

The article has been published in German and is freely available on the magazine’s website, a link can be found here.

Dani Kranz, Sarah M. Ross: Der „gojnormative“ Blick: 1700 Jahre jüdisches Leben in Deutschland?, in: Medaon – Magazin für jüdisches Leben in Forschung und Bildung, 17 (2023), 32, S. 1–15, online unter
http://www.medaon.de/pdf/medaon_32_kranz_ross.pdf [24.05.2023].

Prof. Dr. Sarah M. Ross

Europäisches Zentrum für jüdische Musik,  Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover

Prof. Dr. Dani Kranz

Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

For further information on the research project click here.

Mai 24th, 2023