Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History

340 Pages·2017·5.898 MB·English

by  Lassig Simone (editor), Rurup Miriam (editor)

Space and Spatiality
in Modern
German-Jewish History
New German Historical Perspectives
Series Editors: Paul Betts (Executive Editor), Timothy Garton Ash,
Jürgen Kocka, Gerhard Ritter, Nicholas Stargardt, and
Margit Szöllösi-Janze
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Perspectives showcases pioneering new work by leading German historians
on a range of topics concerning the history of Modern Germany and Europe.
Publications address pressing problems of political, economic, social, and
intellectual history informed by contemporary debates about German and
European identity, providing fresh conceptual, international, and transnational
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Historical Concepts between Eastern and Western Europe
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Crises in European Integration: Challenges and Responses
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Work in a Modern Society: Th e German Historical Experience in Comparative
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Anti-Liberal Europe: A Neglected Story of Europeanization
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Poverty and Welfare in Modern German History
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Volume 8
Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History
Edited by Simone Lässig and Miriam Rürup
Space and Spatiality
in Modern
German-Jewish History
Edited by
Simone Lässig and Miriam Rürup
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Names: Lassig, Simone, 1964– editor. | Rurup, Miriam, 1973– editor.
Title: Space and spatiality in modern German-Jewish history / edited by Simone
Lassig and Miriam Rurup.
Description: New York : Berghahn Books, [2017] | Series: New German historical
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Identifi ers: LCCN 2017012303 (print) | LCCN 2017012810 (ebook) | ISBN
9781785335549 (eBook) | ISBN 9781785335532 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Jews—Germany—History—1800–1933—Congresses. | Jews—
Germany—History—Congresses. | Space perception—Germany—History—
Congresses. | Space and time—Religious aspects—Judaism—Congresses. |
Germany—Ethnic relations—Congresses.
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Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Preface ix
Simone Lässig and Miriam Rürup
Introduction: What Made a Space “Jewish”? Reconsidering a Category
of Modern German History 1
Simone Lässig and Miriam Rürup
III. IMAGINATIONS: Remembrance and Representation
of Spaces and Boundaries
1. Of Sounds and Stones: Th e Jewish-Christian Contact Zone
of a Swiss Village in the Nineteenth Century 23
Alexandra Binnenkade
2. Imaginations of the Ghetto: Jewish Debates on Ghettos and
Jewish Society in Late Nineteenth-Century Galicia 40
Jürgen Heyde
3. Modernization and Memory in German-Jewish History 55
Nils Roemer
4. From Place to Race and Back Again: Th e Jewishness of
Psychoanalysis Revisited 72
Anthony D. Kauders
5. Jewish Displacement and Simulation in the German Films
of E. A. Dupont 88
Ofer Ashkenazi
vi Contents
6. Layered Pasts: Th e Judengasse in Frankfurt and Narrating
German-Jewish History after the Holocaust 107
Michael Meng
III. TRANSFORMATIONS: Emergences, Shifts, and Dissolutions
in Spa ces and Boundaries
7. Th e Representation and Creation of Spaces through Print Media:
Some Insights from the History of the Jewish Press 125
Kerstin von der Krone
8. Out of the Ghetto, Into the Middle Class: Changing Perspectives
on Jewish Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Germany—Th e Case
of Synagogues and Jewish Burial Grounds 140
Andreas Gotzmann
9. Spatial Variations and Locations: Synagogues at the Intersection
of Architecture, Town, and Imagination 160
Sylvia Necker
10. Jewish Philanthropy and the Formation of Modernity:
Baron de Hirsch and His Vision of Jewish Spaces in
European Societies 179
Björn Siegel
11. Reconstructing Jewishness, Deconstructing the Past:
Reading Berlin’s Scheunenviertel over the Course of
the Twentieth Century 197
Anne-Christin Saß
III. PRACTICES: Negotiating, Experiencing, and Appropriating
Spaces and Boundaries
12. A Hybrid Space of Knowledge and Communication:
Hebrew Printing in Jessnitz, 1718–1745 215
Dirk Sadowski
13. Faith in Residence: Jewish Spatial Practice in the Urban Context 231
Joachim Schlör
14. Photography as Jewish Space 246
Michael Berkowitz
Contents vii
15. Jews, Foreigners, and the Space of the Postwar Economy:
Th e Case of Munich’s Möhlstrasse 263
Anna Holian
16. Creating a Bavarian Space for Rapprochement: Th e Jewish
Museum Munich 280
Robin Ostow
17. Real Imaginary Spaces and Places: Virtual, Actual, and Otherwise 298
Ruth Ellen Gruber
Index 317
Ill ustrations
5.1 Baruch’s Hamlet in a newspaper advertisement for Das alte Gesetz.
Furnished by Deutsche Kinematik 91
9.1 Carl Spitzweg, In the Synagogue (1855–60). Used courtesy of
Museum Georg Schäfer, Schweinfurt 167
9.2 Max Beckmann, Th e Synagogue in Frankfurt am Main (1919).
© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst,
Bonn 168
14.1 H enry Ries, Berliner Kinder beobachten das Landemanöver
eines “Rosinenbombers” am Flughafen Tempelhof, July 1948.
© bpk / Henry Ries 248
15.1 S hops in the Möhlstrasse as seen from a Munich police car,
30 June 1949. Used courtesy of the Stadtarchiv München 264
16.1 V iew of the northwest corner of the Jewish Museum Munich.
Used courtesy of Jüdisches Museum München 281
16.2 W all cupboard by Dr. Simon Snopkowski. Used courtesy of
Jüdisches Museum München 287
Preface
Th is volume has a long history—actually too long, but also inspiring. Among
other things, it evolved from a scholarly event Simone Lässig organized to a joint
editing project with Miriam Rürup. Th us, parallel to the rather unorthodox de-
velopment of the book project, the remainder of this preface is written in Simone
Lässig’s voice as she refl ects on the foundations of the project, yet the heartfelt
thanks to all those who contributed to the project along the way come from both
editors.
Th e roots of this project date back to a visiting professorship I had the plea-
sure of being invited to hold for the academic year 2009–10 at the European
Studies Centre at St Antony’s College at Oxford, which was generously spon-
sored by the Marga and Kurt Möllgaard Foundation in the Stifterverband für
die Deutsche Wissenschaft (Association for the Promotion of German Sciences).
Th at was a wonderful time. I profi ted immensely from the many discussions with
colleagues and the tremendous intellectual and library resources available there.
German historians and I personally owe a debt of gratitude to the late Ger-
hard A. Ritter, who, among so many other achievements, was a very import-
ant force in the visiting professor program at Oxford and in fostering dialogue
among German and British historians. Likewise, I would like to thank the former
program director of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, Heinz-
Rudi Spiegel, for his great, long-term engagement and interest in supporting the
visiting professorship at Oxford and for his activism—he advocated intensively
and successfully for the professorship to be continued.
Th at still today I enjoy refl ecting on my productive and inspiring months
at Oxford so much is due, not least, to Jane Caplan. She was a wonderful host
in a variety of ways, among other things opening doors to the academic culture
of England for me. Jane also supported me in organizing the workshop “Jewish
Spaces in Modern Societies and Cultures: Germany in Comparative Perspective,”
which took place at St Antony’s College in May 2010. Th e workshop addressed
central questions of a spatially informed historiography for the history of Ger-
man-speaking Jewry, constructively advancing the fi eld. Th e discussions were de-
cidedly fruitful, with many of the presenters highlighting problem areas that had
hardly even been gauged up to that point from a historical perspective.