CHAPTER 2 Old Yiddish Texts in German-Jewish Culture: Diachronic Translation and the (Re)turn to the Past

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Preface xiv
6. Acknowledgments xvi
7. Introduction. German-Jewish Studies for the Twenty-First Century 1
8. Part I From the Early Modern Period to the Nineteenth Century: Families, Texts, and Religious Identities
9. CHAPTER 1 Le-Dor va-Dor or Discontinuities? Family Networks and the Transnational Turn in (German-)Jewish Studies 17
10. CHAPTER 2 Old Yiddish Texts in German-Jewish Culture: Diachronic Translation and the (Re)turn to the Past 38
11. CHAPTER 3 Orthodoxy as a German-Jewish Legacy 58
12. Part II Nation, Belonging, and Communities in the Early Twentieth Century
13. CHAPTER 4 Contested Contextualizations: Relating German-Jewish History to the History of Colonialism 79
14. CHAPTER 5 The Place of Yiddish in German-Jewish Studies 101
15. CHAPTER 6 Metaphysik der Gottferne: Negativity, Intellectual Communities, and German-Jewish Studies 119
16. Part III Migration, Exile, and Diaspora in the 1930s and Beyond
17. CHAPTER 7 Art without Borders: Artist Rahel Szalit-Marcus and Jewish Visual Culture 149
18. CHAPTER 8 Woman, Scientist, and Jew The Forced Migration of Berta Ottenstein 171
19. CHAPTER 9 A Global Network and Diaspora of German-Jewish Historians and Archives: Reappraising the Enduring Legacy of German Jewry 189
20. Part IV After 1945: Memory, Coming to Terms with the Past, Place, and Displacement
21. CHAPTER 10 Jewish Mourning in the Aftermath of the Holocaust Tending Individual Graves in Occupied Germany, 1945–49 211
22. CHAPTER 11 German-Jewish Fiction on the Holocaust: The Ethics of Narrative Causality in Edgar Hilsenrath’s Disfigured Narration 229
23. CHAPTER 12 (Un-)Jewish Musical Spaces in Munich: Past and Present 248
24. Epilogue: The Dynamic Relationship of “German” and “Jewish” 269
25. Index 279