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The digitisation boom of the last two decades, and the rapid advancement of digital tools to analyse data in myriad ways, have opened up new avenues for humanities research. This volume discusses how the so-called digital turn has affected the field of Jewish Studies, explores the current state of the art and probes how digital developments can be harnessed to address the specific questions, challenges and problems in the field.

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: German-Jewish Studies for the Twenty-First Century -- Part I - From the Early Modern Period to the Nineteenth Century: Families, Texts, and Religious Identities -- Chapter 1 - Le-Dor va-Dor or Discontinuities? Family Networks and the Transnational Turn in (German-)Jewish Studies -- Chapter 2 - Old Yiddish Texts in German-Jewish Culture: Diachronic Translation and the (Re)turn to the Past -- Chapter 3 - Orthodoxy as a German-Jewish Legacy -- Part II - Nation, Belonging, and Communities in the Early Twentieth Century -- Chapter 4 - Contested Contextualizations: Relating German-Jewish History to the History of Colonialism -- Chapter 5 - The Place of Yiddish in German-Jewish Studies -- Chapter 6 - Metaphysik der Gottferne: Negativity, Intellectual Communities, and German-Jewish Studies -- Part III - Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in the 1930s and Beyond -- Chapter 7 - Art without Borders: Artist Rahel Szalit-Marcus and Jewish Visual Culture -- Chapter 8 - Woman, Scientist, and Jew: The Forced Migration of Berta Ottenstein -- Chapter 9 - A Global Network and Diaspora of German-Jewish Historians and Archives: Reappraising the Enduring Legacy of German Jewry -- Part IV - After 1945: Memory, Coming to Terms with the Past, Place, and Displacement -- Chapter 10 - Jewish Mourning in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Tending Individual Graves in Occupied Germany, 1945-49 -- Chapter 11 - German-Jewish Fiction on the Holocaust: The Ethics of Narrative Causality in Edgar Hilsenrath's Disfigured Narration -- Chapter 12 - (Un-)Jewish Musical Spaces in Munich: Past and Present -- Epilogue: The Dynamic Relationship of "German" and "Jewish" -- Index.