Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion -

Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion

Jewish Experiences of the First World War in Central Europe
Buch | Hardcover
418 Seiten
2018
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78920-018-8 (ISBN)
179,95 inkl. MwSt
This collection explores rare sources and employs novel interdisciplinary methods to illuminate four interconnected themes: minorities and the meaning of military service, Jewish-Gentile relations, the cultural legacy of the war, and memory politics.
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.

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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeines / Lexika
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10 1-78920-018-0 / 1789200180
ISBN-13 978-1-78920-018-8 / 9781789200188
Zustand Neuware
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