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As in all fields and disciplines of the humanities, Jewish Studies scholars find themselves confronted with the rapidly increasing availability of digital resources (data), new technologies to interrogate and analyze them (tools), and the question of how to critically engage with these developments. This volume discusses how the digital turn has affected the field of Jewish Studies. It explores the current state of the art and probes how digital developments can be harnessed to address the specific questions, challenges and problems that Jewish Studies scholars confront. In a field characterised by dispersed sources, and heterogeneous scripts and languages that speak to a multitude of cultures and histories, of abundance as well as loss, what is the promise of Digital Humanities methods--and what are the challenges and pitfalls? The articles in this volume were originally presented at the international conference #DHJewish - Jewish Studies in the Digital Age, which was organised at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) at University of Luxembourg in January 2021. The first big international conference of its kind, it brought together more than sixty scholars and heritage practitioners to discuss how the digital turn affects the field of Jewish Studies

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.

"The Continuum Companion to Jewish Studies is a comprehensive reference guide, providing an overview of Jewish Studies as it has developed as an academic sub-discipline. This volume will survey the development and current state of research in the broad field of Jewish Studies - focusing on methodologies, current themes, and varieties of source materials available. Significantly, the volume also includes eleven essays from internationallly renowned scholars that provide an important and useful overview of Jewish history and the development of Judaism, and explore central themes in Jewish Studies that cut across historical periods and offer important opportunities to track significant developments across Jewish experiences. In addition to an annotated bibliography to help orient students and researchers, the volume includes a series of indispensable research tools, including a chronology, maps, and an extensive glossary of key terms and concepts necessary as one engages various fields within Jewish Studies. This is the essential reference guide for anyone working in this field"--

On the basis of postcolonial theory, this study shows how Jewish scholars, in the controversies about the "essence" of Judaism and Christianity at the beginning of the 20th century, challenged the intellectual hegemony of Liberal Protestantism in Germany. By carefully examining the impact of the political circumstances-the loss of relevance of political liberalism, the spreading of antisemitism, and the crisis of Jewish identity in an age of contested emancipation and assimilation-on the theological discourse, it provides a critical analysis of anti-Jewish implications of Protestant theology in the 19th and 20th centuries and discusses the function of Jewish polemics against Protestant distortions of Jewish history, religion and culture. Furthermore, it develops important guidelines for a contemporary interdisciplinary relationship between Jewish Studies and Christian theology