Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany

Ofer Ashkenazi; Sarah Wobick-Segev; Rebekka Grossmann; Shira Miron

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Still Lives

Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany

Ofer Ashkenazi , Sarah Wobick-Segev , Rebekka Grossmann und Shira Miron

Sprache: Englisch

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How German Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face of National Socialism

Still Lives is a systematic study of the ways Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face of National Socialism. In a time of intensifying anti-Jewish rhetoric and policies, German Jews documented their lives and their environment in tens of thousands of photographs. German Jews of considerably diverse backgrounds took and preserved these photographs: professional and amateurs, of different ages, gender, and classes. The book argues that their previously overlooked photographs convey otherwise unuttered views, emotions, and self-perceptions. Based on a database of more than fifteen thousand relevant images, it analyzes photographs within the historical contexts of their production, preservation, and intended viewing, and explores a plethora of Jews’ reactions to the changing landscapes of post-1933 Germany. Here, the authors claim that these reactions complement, complicate, and, sometimes, undermine the contents of contemporaneous written sources.

Still Lives develops a new methodology for historians to use while reading and analyzing photographs, and shows how one can highlight an image’s role in a narrative that comments on, and assigns meaning to, the reality it documents. In times of radical uncertainty, numerous German Jews used photography to communicate their intricate, confused, and conflicting expectations, fears, and beliefs. Through careful analysis of these photographs, this book lays the foundations for a new history of the German-Jewish experience during the National Socialist years.

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Contributor: Rebekka Grossmann Rebekka Grossmann is Assistant Professor of Migration History at Leiden University. She is co-editor of Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany (University of Pennsylvania Press 2025).

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"Elegantly and seamlessly co-written by four experts in both visual analysis and social history, Still Lives offers a new and powerful lens with which to understand the increasingly fraught everyday life of Jewish Germans in Nazi Germany." --- "Grounded in an extraordinary photographic archive, brilliantly analyzed by a scholarly dream team, Still Lives is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how Jews lived under Nazism." --- "Still Lives ably shows that the spaces of Jewish life captured by pocket-sized cameras convey vital narratives of life before a seismic rupture."

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Introduction. Jewish Photography in an Age of Extreme Uncertainty Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	1
PART I. PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE GERMAN-JEWISH EXPERIENCE
Chapter 1. Documenting, Exhibiting, and Contemplating Jewishness: A Brief History of German-Jewish Photography Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	27
Chapter 2. Reading Photographs of Jews in Nazi Germany: Functions, Compositions, Meanings Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	48
PART II. THE PHOTOGRAPHIC ENCODING OF GERMAN-JEWISH LIVES
Chapter 3. A Site of Comfort and Defiance: Photographs of the Jewish Home in Nazi Germany Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	75
Chapter 4. Estranged Homeland: Exploring the Newly Nazified Landscapes Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	101
Chapter 5. Probing the Binaries of the German-Jewish Experience: The Photographed “Jewish Spaces” of the Third Reich Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	139
PART III. INCONCLUSIVE STORIES: JEWS’ VISUAL NARRATIVES IN THE FACE OF NAZISM
Chapter 6. With a Wink and a Nod: Arthur Freund’s Family Album as a Site of Memory and Its Deconstruction Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	175
Chapter 7. The Elusive Storyteller: The Two Narrators of Marianne Holländer’s Schooldays Album Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	195
Chapter 8. Abstractions as Pathos: Narrating Martha Maas’s (Fantasy of) Success in Nazi Berlin Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	211
Chapter 9. Montage Storytelling: Ambivalent Reflections on Jewishness and Emigration Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	230
Chapter 10. Departure, Finitude, and (Post-)Memories: Last Photos from Germany Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	248
Notes Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	267
Bibliography Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	311
Index Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	339
Acknowledgments Erfordert eine Authentifizierung Nicht lizenziert Lizenziert	353

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2. Januar 2025

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Jewish life in Nazi Germany; National Socialism; everyday life under Nazi occupation; Jewish photography; German-Jewish history; Holocaust victims and survivors; Jewish family photo album; Photographs of Jewish homes; Jewish spaces of the third reich; Twentieth century photography history; How to interpret Jewish photographs; 1930s; using photography to express emotion

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