Colonialism and the Jews in German History

Stefan Vogt is Associate Professor of History and Research Coordinator at the Martin Buber Chair for Jewish Thought and Philosophy at Goether-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the author of two books and the co-editor of a further two books in German.

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction (Stefan Vogt, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Part I - The Pre-Colonial Era
2. Antisemitism and Colonial Racism: Genealogical Perspectives (Claudia Bruns, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
3. Sugar Island Jews? Jewish Colonialism and the Rhetoric of ‘Civic Improvement’ in 18th-Century Germany (Jonathan Hess, University of North Carolina, USA)
4. Racism, Antisemitism and Acheivement: Christoph Meiners and his Theory of the Nonequivalence of Human Beings (Felix Axster, Center for Antisemitism Research, Germany)
5. Boundary as Barrier, Boundary as Bridge: Colonialism and the Scholarly Quest for Boundaries (Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College, USA)
Part II - The Colonial Era
6. The Role of Anti-Semitism for Colonial Racism (Ulrike Hamann, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)
7. From Colonialism to Antisemitism and Back: Ideological Developments in the Alldeutsche Verband during the Kaiserreich (Stefan Vogt, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
8. 'Our Dernburg' - 'The New Moses': The German Empire’s Jewish Colonial Director (1906–1910): ‘Our Dernburg’ – ‘The New Moses’ (Axel Stähler, University of Kent, UK)
10. A Paradigm for Repatriation Projects: The African-American and the Zionest examples and the interrelationship (Mark Gelber, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
Part III - The Post-Colonial Era
10. The Predicaments of Non-Nationalist Nationalism: Hans Kohn’s and Hannah Arendt's Anti-Colonial Thinking during and after World War II (Christian Wiese, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
11. Colonial Revisionism and the Emin Pasha Myth in Weimar and Nazi Germany (Christian S. Davis, James Madison University, USA)
12. Trauma, Privilege, and Adventure in the "Orient": German Jewish Refugees in Iran and India (Atina Grossmann, The Cooper Union, USA)
Bibliography
Index of names