Between Decay and Doom: Zionist Discourses of “Untergang” in Germany, 1890 to 1933

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. The Jews as Educators of Humanity – a Christian-Philosemitic Grand Narrative of Jewish Modernity? 1
5. Transfers of Categories: the German-Jewish Experience and Beyond 15
6. German Classicism and Judaism 45
7. Aliens vs. Predators: Cosmopolitan Jews vs. Jewish Nomads 59
8. Between Decay and Doom: Zionist Discourses of “Untergang” in Germany, 1890 to 1933 75
9. Popular Entertainment and Mass Media: The Central Arenas of German-Jewish Cultural Engagement 103
10. Aby Warburg and Weimar Jewish Culture: Navigating Normative Narratives, Counternarratives, and Historical Context 117
11. The Jewish Places of Weimar Cinema: Reconsidering Karl Grune’s The Street 135
12. Jewish Liberalism in the Weimar Republic? Reconsidering a Key Element of Political Culture in the Interwar Era 155
13. History in the House of the Hangman: How Po stwar Germany Became a Key Site for the Study of Jewish History 171
14. Non-Jewish Perspectives on German-Jewish History. A Generational Project? 193
15. Rabbi S. R. Hirsch and his Perception of Germany and German Jewry 207
16. Between East and West: Pauline Wengeroff and her Cultural History of the Jews of Russia 231
17. The Anti-Nazi Plays of Habimah during the 1930s and the Making of Eretz-Israel Bildung 247
18. Berlin and Jerusalem: Toward German-Hebrew Studies 265
19. Postscript 273
20. Notes on Contributors 277