Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion (eBook)

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.

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).

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).

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).

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