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As a field, German-Jewish Studies emphasizes the dangers of
nationalism, monoculturalism, and ethnocentrism, while making room
for multilingual and transnational perspectives with questions
surrounding migration, refugees, exile, and precarity. Focussing on
the relevance and utility of the field for the twenty-first
century, German-Jewish Studies explores why studying and applying
German-Jewish history and culture must evolve and be given further
attention today. The volume brings together an interdisciplinary
range of scholars to reconsider the history of antisemitism-as well
as intersections of antisemitism with racism and colonialism-and
how connections to German Jews shed light on the continuities,
ruptures, anxieties, and possible futures of German-speaking Jews
and their legacies.
The book sheds light on various chapters in the long history of
Protestant-Jewish relations, from the Reformation to the present.
Going beyond questions of antisemitism and religious animosity, it
aims to disentangle some of the intricate perceptions,
interpretations, and emotions that have characterized contacts
between Protestantism and Judaism, and between Jews and
Protestants. While some papers in the book address Luther's
antisemitism and the NS-Zeit, most papers broaden the scope of the
investigation: Protestant-Jewish theological encounters shaped not
only antisemitism but also the Jewish Reform movement and
Protestant philosemitic post-Holocaust theology; interactions
between Jews and Protestants took place not only in the German
lands but also in the wider Protestant universe; theology was
crucial for the articulation of attitudes toward Jews, but music
and philosophy were additional spheres of creativity that enabled
the process of thinking through the relations between Judaism and
Protestantism. By bringing together various contributions on these
and other aspects, the book opens up directions for future research
on this intricate topic, which bears both historical significance
and evident relevance to our own time.
This book explores the unique phenomenon of Christian engagement
with Yiddish language and literature from the beginning of the
sixteenth century to the late eighteenth century. By exploring the
motivations for Christian interest in Yiddish, and the differing
ways in which Yiddish was discussed and treated in Christian texts,
A Goy Who Speaks Yiddish addresses a wide array of issues, most
notably Christian Hebraism, Protestant theology, early modern
Yiddish culture, and the social and cultural history of language in
early modern Europe. Elyada's analysis of a wide range of
philological and theological works, as well as textbooks,
dictionaries, ethnographical writings, and translations,
demonstrates that Christian Yiddishism had implications beyond its
purely linguistic and philological dimensions. Indeed, Christian
texts on Yiddish reveal not only the ways in which Christians
perceived and defined Jews and Judaism, but also, in a contrasting
vein, how they viewed their own language, religion, and culture.
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