Mirjam Zadoff

Karolina Kühn

Queer Lives 1900-1950

To Be Seen

Gewalt darf nie vergessen werden: Mirjam Zadoff, Leiterin des Münchner NS-Dokumentationszentrums, versammelt Ideen für eine globale Erinnerungskultur. In heutigen Gesellschaften leben Menschen zusammen, deren Biografien durch unterschiedliche Erfahrungen von Krieg oder Diskriminierung geprägt sind – manchmal über Generationen hinweg. Können sie sich auf eine gemeinsame Erzählung verständigen? Mirjam Zadoff versteht Geschichte als Fähigkeit, Fragen der Gegenwart aus der Vergangenheit zu beantworten. Sie versammelt Beispiele aus aller Welt, wie in vielerlei Spielarten die Erinnerung an die Geschichte der Gewalt wachgehalten – oder vergessen – wird: in Italien an die Deportation der Juden, in Japan an die Zwangsprostituierten, in Johannesburg an die Opfer des Holocaust und des Kolonialismus. So knüpft sich eine globale Erinnerungskultur, die alle Menschen einschließt, in deren Leben die Geschichte eine Spur der Gewalt hinterlassen hat.

Globale Erinnerung im 21. Jahrhundert

Gewalt und Gedächtnis

Jürgen Heyde

Nora Lafi

Monica Rüthers

Magdalena Waligórska

Joachim Schlör

Alexis Hofmeister

Martin Kindermann

Eszter Gantner

Diana I. Popescu

Wolfgang Kaschuba

Saskia Coenen Snyder

Ruth Leiserowitz

François Guesnet

Maria Cieśla

Frank Golczewski

Felix Heinert

Anne-Christin Saß

The unifying thread of the interdisciplinary volume Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces in the Urban Context is the fact that Jewish spaces are almost always generated in relation to non-Jewish spaces; they determine and influence each other. This general phenomenon will be scrutinized and put to the test again and again in a varied collection of articles by international experienced researchers as well as junior scholars using various urban contexts and discourses as data. From the viewpoints of different temporal and regional research traditions and disciplines the contributors deal with the question of how Jewish and non-Jewish spaces are imagined, constructed, negotiated and intertwined. All examples and case studies together create a mosaic of possibilities for the construction of Jewish and non-Jewish spaces in different settings. The list of examined topics ranges from synagogues to ghettos, from urban neighborhoods to cafés and festivals, from art to literature. This diversity makes the volume a challenging effort of giving an overview of the current academic discussion in Europe and beyond. Although the majority of the contributions are focused on Central and Eastern Europe, a more general tendency becomes apparent in all articles: the negotiation of urban spaces seems to be a complex and ambivalent process in which a large number of participants are involved. In this regard, the volume would also like to contribute to trans-disciplinary urban studies and critical research on spatial relations.

Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces in the Urban Context

Denis Heuring

Paul-Moritz Rabe

Was schwächt Demokratien? Ab wann sind Demokratien bedroht? Und was brauchen sie, um autoritären und faschistischen Tendenzen entgegenzutreten? Heute leben nur noch etwa 13 % der Weltbevölkerung in liberalen Demokratien. Antidemokratische Überzeugungen verbreiten sich zunehmend. Bürgerrechte werden eingeschränkt, unabhängige Institutionen abgebaut, populistische -Parteien und demokratiefeindliche Politiker*innen ziehen in Parlamente ein. In diesem Band diskutieren internationale Expert*innen aus Geschichts-, -Politik-, Natur-, Kultur-, Rechtswissenschaften und Journalismus darüber, was Demokratien schwächt. Sie blicken auf verschiedene Regionen der Welt, in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, und überlegen, was freie Gesellschaften brauchen, um autoritären und faschistischen Tendenzen entgegenzutreten. Autor*innen: Çiğdem Akyol, Alice Bota, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Pranish Desai, Felix Heidenreich, Mark Jones, Élise Julien, Tarunabh Kaithan, Philipp Lorenz-Spreen, Jan-Werner Müller, Heike Paul, Jonas Schaible, Astrid Séville, Ronen Steinke, Martin Schulze Wessel, Mark Terkessidis, Michael Wildt, Claudia Zilla, Noam Zadoff, Benjamin Zeeb.

Was freie Gesellschaften bedroht – und was sie zusammenhält

Fragile Demokratien

From the last decades of the nineteenth century through the late 1930s, the West Bohemian spa towns of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad were fashionable destinations for visitors wishing to "take a cure"—to drink the waters, bathe in the mud, be treated by the latest X-ray, light, or gas therapies, or simply enjoy the respite afforded by elegant parks and comfortable lodgings. These were sociable and urbane places, settings for celebrity sightings, match-making, and stylish promenading. Originally the haunt of aristocrats, the spa towns came to be the favored summer resorts for the emerging bourgeoisie. Among the many who traveled there, a very high proportion were Jewish. In Next Year in Marienbad, Mirjam Zadoff writes the social and cultural history of Carlsbad, Franzensbad, and Marienbad as Jewish spaces. Secular and religious Jews from diverse national, cultural, and social backgrounds mingled in idyllic and often apolitical-seeming surroundings. During the season, shops sold Yiddish and Hebrew newspapers, kosher kitchens were opened, and theatrical presentations, concerts, and public readings catered to the Jewish clientele. Yet these same resorts were situated in a region of growing hostile nationalisms, and they were towns that might turn virulently anti-Semitic in the off season. Next Year in Marienbad draws from memoirs and letters, newspapers and maps, novels and postcards to create a compelling and engaging portrait of Jewish presence and cultural production in the years between the fin de siècle and the Second World War.

The Lost Worlds of Jewish Spa Culture

Next Year in Marienbad

"Published in association with the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania."

A German Life

Werner Scholem

Noam Zadoff

The articles collected in Scholar and Kabbalist: The Life and Work of Gershom Scholem offer new and fresh insights into the life and work of Gershom Scholem, one of the most prominent German-Jewish intellectuals of the 20th century.

Scholem Conference

Mirjam Zadoff

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