Collective memory - Non-memory and forgetting - Poland - Jews - Jewish-Christian relations - The Holocaust - Identity - Antisemitism - Sites of memory - Commemorative practices - Transmission of memory Seventy-five years after the Holocaust, Poland's approach to its murdered Je…
Biographical note: Karin Tebben, Universität Heidelberg. In a new edition, Karin Tebben presents Nordau's best-known work "Degeneration" ("Entartung," 1892/93), which focuses on the modern pathologies of artistic modernism. Together with Nietzsche, Nordau is one of the most inf…
Der Sammelband gibt eine Antwort auf die in Politik und Wissenschaft verbreitete Totalitarismustheorie, die den deutsch-sowjetischen Nichtangriffsvertrag vom 23.8.1939 als Verständigung zweier wesensverwandter Diktaturen über die Aufteilung Europas und der Welt interpretiert. Di…
Main description: This study on conceptual history indicates how German-Jewish authors writing between 1750 and 1850 pitted definitions of their own against the general notions of 'nation', 'fatherland', 'patriotism', and 'nationalism' emerging in that period. This process is re…
The Metamorphoses of Ancient Myths
Myth - Scholia - Greek tragedy - Byzantine epigram - Pliny the Elder - Cicero - Seneca - Seferis' existential poetry - Goll's postdramatic theatre - Müller - Irish drama - Mouawad's play - Jelinek - refugees' crisis - Staging death - Decorum - Polish theatre - German theatre - T…
Biographical note: Michael Butter, University of Freiburg, Germany; Maurus Reinkowski, University of Basel, Switzerland. So far most scholars have studied conspiracy theories within national frameworks only. Focusing on the United States and the Middle East, two regions entangl…
Irit Amit-Cohen explores the riddle behind disappearing citrus orchards and plantations from Israel's coastal scenery. The book reveals the biographies of entrepreneurs who came to Palestine in the 1920s and 1930s. Exposing the uniqueness of the plantation companies, describing …
Society, Law, and Culture in the Middle East:"Modernities" in the Making' is an edited volume that seeks to deepen and broaden our understanding of various forms of change in Middle Eastern and North African societies during the Ottoman period. It offers an in-depth analysis of …
Holocaust Denial. The Politics of Perfidy provides a graphic and compelling global panorama of past and present variations on this toxic phenomenon. The volume examines right and left wing French negationism, post-Communist Holocaust deniers in Eastern-Europe, the spread of deni…
Erhard Weigel (1625-1699) und die Wissenschaften
Despite many expulsion attempts in the 16th century, the Frankfurt community advanced to become the center of the Jewish world in the Early Modern Age in the German-speaking region. Cilli Kasper-Holtkotte explores the history of the Frankfurt Jews during this period - a topic sc…
The book presents the first English edition of Hubertine Auclert's "Arab Women in Algeria". Hubertine Auclert lived in Algeria from 1888 to 1892 where she investigated the customs that defined the condition of women, and in doing so, she witnessed both the exploitation of women …
