Space and Spatiality in Modern German-Jewish History

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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. Contents List of Illustrations Preface • Simone Lässig and Miriam Rürup Introduction: What Made a Space “Jewish”? Reconsidering a Category of Modern German History • Simone Lässig and Miriam Rürup Part I. Imaginations: Remembrance and Representation of Spaces and Boundaries 1. Of Sounds and Stones: The Jewish-Christian Contact Zone of a Swiss Village in the Nineteenth Century • Alexandra Binnenkade 2. Imaginations of the Ghetto: Jewish Debates on Ghettos and Jewish Society in Late Nineteenth-Century Galicia • Jürgen Heyde 3. Modernization and Memory in German-Jewish History • Nils Roemer 4. From Place to Race and Back Again: The Jewishness of Psychoanalysis Revisited • Anthony D. Kauders 5. Jewish Displacement and Simulation in the German Films of E. A. Dupont • Ofer Ashkenazi 6. Layered Pasts: The Judengasse in Frankfurt and Narrating German-Jewish History after the Holocaust • Michael Meng Part II. Transformations: Emergences, Shifts, and Dissolutions in Spaces and Boundaries 7. The Representation and Creation of Spaces through Print Media: Some Insights from the History of the Jewish Press • Kerstin von der Krone 8. Out of the Ghetto, Into the Middle Class: Changing Perspectives on Jewish Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Germany—The Case of Synagogues and Jewish Burial Grounds • Andreas Gotzmann 9. Spatial Variations and Locations: Synagogues at the Intersection of Architecture, Town, and Imagination • Sylvia Necker 10. Jewish Philanthropy and the Formation of Modernity: Baron de Hirsch and His Vision of Jewish Spaces in European Societies • Björn Siegel 11. Reconstructing Jewishness, Deconstructing the Past: Reading Berlin’s Scheunenviertel over the Course of the Twentieth Century • Anne-Christin Saß Part III. Practices: Negotiating, Experiencing, and Appropriating Spaces and Boundaries 12. A Hybrid Space of Knowledge and Communication: Hebrew Printing in Jessnitz, 1718–1745 • Dirk Sadowski 13. Faith in Residence: Jewish Spatial Practice in the Urban Context • Joachim Schlör 14. Photography as Jewish Space • Michael Berkowitz 15. Jews, Foreigners, and the Space of the Postwar Economy: The Case of Munich’s Möhlstrasse • Anna Holian 16. Creating a Bavarian Space for Rapprochement: The Jewish Museum Munich • Robin Ostow 17. Real Imaginary Spaces and Places: Virtual, Actual, and Otherwise • Ruth Ellen Gruber Index