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Tracing the social history of modern German Jews from the end of the 18th century up to the aftermath of World War II, Miriam Rürup follows their ascent into the middle and upper middle classes through repeated experiences of setbacks but also of self-assertion. In doing so it is explained how Jewish life changed under the auspices of emancipation and what impact these changes had on the demographic and social profile of the Jewish minority. With a focus on the daily interactions between Jews and other Germans when choosing a home, profession, or school, for example, Social History of German Jews shows the contrasting processes of integration and exclusion in a new light

Preliminary Material -- Vorbemerkungen -- Rechtliche und soziale Rahmung: Fortschritte und Rückschläge der Emanzipation -- Aufwachsen und Leben -- Lernen -- Arbeiten -- Wohnen -- Sich Engagieren -- Gesellig sein -- Forschen und Darstellen -- Schlussbemerkung -- Literaturvorschläge -- Personenregister.

What's the Sex of the Stateless? Statelessness in Post-war West-Germany The stateless person is a central figure of the twentieth century. It developed as a result of the confluence of nationalism, the emergence of new nation states, the dissolution of former empires and the two World Wars. Of all the major causes of statelessness, one had particularly affected women. Even long into the twentieth century – and in international law, until 1957 – a woman's nationality was based on the principle of «derivative citizenship». This meant that her citizenship depended on the person to whom she «belonged», be it her father in her country of origin or her husband of a different nationality. This article focuses on international judicial, diplomatic and humanitarian discussions in the preliminary stages of resolutions such as the 1957 UN Convention on the Nationality of Married Women. The discussions on the supranational level were echoed by the West-German claim of equality of the sexes, which was laid out in national legislation such as the Basic Law. By looking at this example, we can find out how both the nation states as well as women's rights groups acted as players in an international field of diplomatic discourse, and how they employed a human rights language in order to make themselves heard and to convey their claims. While the «right to have a nationality» was part of the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights, the question of how to deal with stateless people on an everyday basis of political and social practice within the framework of the nation state still remained unanswered. My interest is to show how women's rights groups and German national legislation discovered and defined statelessness as a humanitarian problem and tried to solve it in the political realm.

What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German history to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them both within and outside of Jewish communities, and what the implications have been across different eras and social contexts. Working from an expansive concept of "the spatial," these contributions look not only at physical sites but at professional, political, institutional, and imaginative realms, as well as historical Jewish experiences of spacelessness. Together, they encompass spaces as varied as early modern print shops and Weimar cinema, always pointing to the complex intertwining of German and Jewish identity

Am 17. Februar 2019 wäre Walter Grab 100 Jahre alt geworden. Sein persönlicher Werdegang spiegelt die Herausforderungen und politischen Verwerfungen des 20. Jahrhunderts wider. Als Historiker hat er wichtige Beiträge zur Demokratiegeschichte und ihrer Verbindung zur Emanzipation der Juden geleistet. Insbesondere die Französische Revolution und ihre Wirkungsgeschichte haben ihn lebenslang beschäftigt. Dabei stand auch die Frage im Mittelpunkt, weshalb die Ideen der Revolution in Deutschland nicht den gleichen Erfolg hatten wie etwa in Frankreich oder England. Diese Forschungen verknüpfte er mit einem anderen großen Thema, zu dem er ebenfalls bedeutende Beiträge geleistet hat: Dem Verhältnis zwischen der Demokratiebewegung und der Emanzipation der Juden in Europa. Im Rahmen eines interdisziplinären Kolloquiums am Europa Kolleg und dem Institut für die Geschichte der deutschen Juden in Hamburg wurden seine Arbeiten gewürdigt und mit der Frage nach der Zukunft der Demokratie in Europa verknüpft werden. Der Band stellt die Ergebnisse einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit vor. Mit einem Grußwort des Kultursenators Dr. Carsten Brosda. Mit Beiträgen von Carsten Brosda, Uwe Friesel, Alexander Grab, Andreas Grimmel, Arno Herzig, Yael Kupferberg und Rainer Nicolaysen.

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.