Mehr zum Titel: | List of Illustrations -- 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. German Romanticism, the Orient, and the Jews / (Christine Achinger, University of Warwick, UK) ; 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. The Dispositive of Work: Colonial and Antisemitic Implications / (Felix Axster, Center for Antisemitism Research, Germany) ; 8. From Colonialism to Antisemitism and Back: Ideological Developments in the Alldeutsche Verband during the Kaiserreich / (Stefan Vogt, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; 9. The German Empire's Jewish Colonial Director (1906-1910): 'Our Dernburg' -- 'The New Moses' / (Axel Stähler, University of Kent, UK) ; 10. Early German Zionists and the 'Negro Question' in the United States / (Mark Gelber, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel) ; 11. The German Right, Settler Colonialism, and the Bio-Racialization of Antisemitism, 1902-1922 / (Dennis Sweeney, University of Alberta, Canada) -- Part III. The Post-Colonial Era. 12. Colonial Revisionism and the Emin Pasha Myth in Weimar and Nazi Germany / (Christian Davis, James Madison University, USA) ; 13. 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) ; 14. Trauma, Privilege, and Adventure in the "Orient": German Jewish Refugees in Iran and India (Atina Grossmann / The Cooper Union, USA) -- Index. |
Inhalt: | "Colonialism and the Jews in German History brings together new and path-breaking studies on the historical relationship between colonialism and the Jews in Germany. The book considers the mutual influences on the situation of the Jews in Germany, including attitudes towards Jews and anti-Semitism but also Jewish self-conceptions, and the ideology and politics of German colonialism. The contributors discuss the ways in which colonial ideology and practice have affected the position of the Jews in Germany, and the relationship between anti-Semitism and colonial racism. In doing so, the volume introduces German colonialism as a relevant context for German-Jewish history, and it expands the perspective on German colonial history significantly by considering Jews both as distinct objects and also as agents within the field of German colonialism. The volume includes studies on the pre-colonial era, the phase of active German colonialism since the 1880s, and the time after Germany lost its colonies in the First World War. All these studies testify to the fact that German-Jewish history takes on additional significance if seen as part of a global history of collective relationships."-- |
