Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts / Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook XII/2013

A graduate of the Hebrew University and the University of Chicago, Yaakov Ariel’s research focuses on messianic, hybrid, or radical movements in contemporary Judaism and Christianity, as well as on Christian-Jewish relations in the Modern Era. He has published numerous articles as well as a number of books on these topics. His book, Evangelizing the Chosen People, won the Outler Prize of the American Society of Church History. His latest book, An Unusual Relationship: Evangelical Christians and Jews, was published by New York University Press in 2013. Ariel teaches at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he is currently co-director of the Center for Jewish Studies, and director of the Minor in the Study of Christianity and Culture.

Efrat Gal-Ed is Professor of Yiddish Studies at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

Dr. Christhardt Henschel ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Deutschen Historischen Institut Warschau.

Dr. Nikolaus Buschmann ist Wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Historischen Seminar der Universität Tübingen.

Franziska Davies ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Ost- und Südosteuropäische Geschichte der Ludwig-Maximlians-Universität München.

PD Dr. Christine G. Krüger ist Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Sonderforschungsbereich TRR 138 »Dynamiken der Sicherheit« an der Universität Gießen.

Dr. Martin Zückert ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Geschäftsführer des Collegium Carolinum, Forschungsinstitut für die Geschichte Tschechiens und der Slowakei.

Dr. Jan Eike Dunkhase ist Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Deutschen Literaturarchiv Marbach.

Dan Diner ist Professor emeritus für Moderne Geschichte an der Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Von 1999 bis 2014 war er Direktor des Simon-Dubnow-Instituts für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur und Professor am Historischen Seminar der Universität Leipzig.

The 2013 Yearbook of the Simon Dubnow Institute is centered on two focal areas: Jewish military history and the secularization of Hebrew. Jewish military history is principally a history of the integration of the Jews into their surrounding European cultures. This section highlights questions of loyalty and citizenship. The thematic focus brings together contributions from recent research on this theme. On the one hand, imperial and national life worlds are differentiated; on the other hand, topics are explored that touch on questions of religion in the face of military demands and exigencies. The second part on the secularization of Hebrew presents essays on the transformation of Hebrew as a primarily 'sacred language' anchored, until the dawn of modernity, in religious written culture. In particular, it explores secularizing impulses in the medieval and early modern era affecting the language. The papers are complemented by other articles concerned with language philosophy and literary studies. The regular and the special sections of the Yearbook contain articles on Holocaust historiography, Oriental studies, Christian Hebraic studies, the Science of Judaism (Wissenschaft des Judentums), as well as contributions examining the differing processes of appropriation, transfer and representation of everyday and historical Jewish experience in literature, poetics and theater.>