Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion

Jewish Experiences of the First World War in Central Europe
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-202-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 418 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

During the First World War, the Jewish population of Central Europe was politically, socially, and experientially diverse, to an extent that resists containment within a simple historical narrative. While antisemitism and Jewish disillusionment have dominated many previous studies of the topic, this collection aims to recapture the multifariousness of Central European Jewish life in the experiences of soldiers and civilians alike during the First World War. Here, scholars from multiple disciplines explore rare sources and employ innovative methods to illuminate four interconnected themes: minorities and the meaning of military service, Jewish-Gentile relations, cultural legacies of the war, and memory politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crouthamel, Jason

Geheran, Michael

Grady, Tim

Köhne, Julia Barbara

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums außerhalb Israels/Palästinas
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Identität & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Jason Crouthamel, Michael Geheran, Tim Grady, and Julia Barbara Köhne

PART I: AT THE MARGINS: MINORITIES AND THE MILITARY

Chapter 1. Hopes and Disappointments: German and French Jews during the Wars of 1870/71 and 1914–1918

Christine G. Krüger

Chapter 2. Habsburg Jews and the Imperial Army before and during the First World War

Tamara Scheer

Chapter 3. The ‘Stepchildren’ of the Kaiserreich: Alsatians in the German Army during the First World War

Devlin M. Scofield

PART II: RELATIONS: CONTESTED IDENTITIES DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Chapter 4. Rethinking Jewish Front Experiences

Michael Geheran

Chapter 5. "Being German" and "Being Jewish" during the First World War: An Ambivalent Transnational Relationship?

Sarah Panter

Chapter 6. In the Shadow of Antisemitism: Jewish Women and the German Home Front during the First World War

Andrea A. Sinn

Chapter 7. The Social Engagement of Jewish Women in Berlin during the First World War

Sabine Hank

Chapter 8. “My Comrades Are for the Most Part On My Side”: Comradeship Between Non-Jewish and German Jewish Front Soldiers in the First World War

Jason Crouthamel

PART III: REPRESENTATION: THE CULTURE OF WAR

Chapter 9. Blind Spots and Jewish Heroines: Refashioning the Galician War Experience in 1920s Hollywood and Berlin

Philipp Stiasny

Chapter 10. Agnon on the Home Front in In Mr Lublin’s Store: Hebrew Fiction of the First World War

Glenda Abramson

PART IV: CONTESTED MEMORIES: WORKING THROUGH THE LEGACIES OF WAR

Chapter 11. Paper Psyches: On the Psychography of the Front Soldier According to Paul Plaut

Julia Barbara Köhne

Chapter 12. Narrative Negotiations: Interpreting the Cultural Position of Jews in National(social)ist War Narratives from 1914 to 1945

Florian Brückner

Afterword: German Jewry and the First World War: Beyond Polemic and Apologetic

Derek Jonathan Penslar

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Grady, Tim
Tim Grady is a Reader in Modern History at the University of Chester. He is also the author of The German-Jewish Soldiers of the First World War in History and Memory (2011), A Deadly Legacy: German Jews and the Great War (2017), and co-editor, with Hannah Ewence, of Minorities and the First World War: From War to Peace (2017).

Crouthamel, Jason
Jason Crouthamel is an Associate Professor of History at Grand Valley State University. His publications include An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality and German Soldiers in the First World War (2014), The Great War and German Memory: Society, Politics and Psychological Trauma (2009) and two collections coedited with Peter Leese: Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War and Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After (both 2016).

Köhne, Julia Barbara
Julia Barbara Köhne is a Visiting Assistant Professor of the History of Culture at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.  She is the author of Geniekult in Geisteswissenschaften und Literaturen um 1900 und seine filmischen Adaptionen (2014), Kriegshysteriker. Strategische Bilder und mediale Techniken militärpsychiatrischen Wissens, 1914–1920 (2009), and co-editor, with Ulrike Heikaus, of Krieg! Juden zwischen den Fronten 1914–1918 (2014).

Geheran, Michael
Michael Geheran is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the United States Military Academy. He is a graduate of Norwich University, Harvard University, and Clark University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2016. He is currently working on a book based on his doctoral research, which examines the experiences of German-Jewish World War I veterans during the Holocaust.

Jason Crouthamel is an Associate Professor of History at Grand Valley State University. His publications include An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality and German Soldiers in the First World War (2014), The Great War and German Memory: Society, Politics and Psychological Trauma (2009) and two collections coedited with Peter Leese: Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War and Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After (both 2016).