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Constance M. Furey, Peter Gemeinhardt, Joel Marcus LeMon, Thomas Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric Ziolkowski (Eds.)
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR)
Volume 24: Pesher, Pesharim – approx. Popper, Julius
October 2025
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The Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR) is intended to serve as a comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on the background, origins, and development of the canonical texts of the Bible as they were accepted in Judaism and Christianity. Unprecedented in breadth and scope, this encyclopedia also documents the history of the Bible’s interpretation and reception across the centuries, not only in Judaism and Christianity.
Bible; Reception of the Bible; Encyclopaedia; Cultural History; Exegesis
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Joschua und Melchisedek
Studien zur Entwicklung des Jerusalemer Hohepriesteramtes om 6. bis zum 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr.
[Joshua and Melchizedek: Studies on the Development of the Office of the High Priest in Jerusalem from the Sixth to the Second Century BCE]
Reihe/Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche wissenschaft 546
Im Zusammenspiel von Analysen einschlägiger biblischer Texte (insb. Hag und Sach 1-8; Esr 1-6; Gen 14; Ps 110) und außerbiblischer Quellen rekonstruiert die Studie die Entstehung eines politisch einflussreichen Jerusalemer Hohepriesteramtes. Entgegen einem breiten Forschungstrend kommt sie zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Politisierung des Jerusalemer Hohepriesteramtes nicht vor der seleukidischen Zeit eingesetzt hat. Jerusalemer Hohepriester; Joschua; Melchisedek; Persische und hellenistische Zeit
In an interplay of analyses, relevant biblical texts (esp. Hag.; Zech. 1–8; Ezra 1–6, Gen. 14; Ps. 110) and extra-biblical sources, this study reconstructs the development of the politically influential office of the high priest in Jerusalem. Countering a widespread research trend, this study draws the conclusion that the politicization of the Jerusalem office of the high priest did not begin before the Seleucid age.
High priests of Jerusalem; Joshua; Melchizedek; Persian and Hellenistic Age
Sarah Schulz, Friedrich-AlexanderUniversität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Maximilian Häberlein
Speaking to Job in Greek
Text, Translation Technique, Literary and Theological Profile of OG Job 38:1-42:6
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche wissenschaft 560
September 2024
English, IX, 442 pp.
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The Old Greek translation of Job has long challenged scholars. How can the difference in length, literary profile, and theology be described? This study investigates text, translation technique, literary contexts, and theological profile of God‘s speeches (Job 38:1-42:6) in OG Job. By focussing on translational strategies and reading of the Greek text in its own right, this study provides new perspectives on the Book of Job in its Greek form.
Septuagint; Old Greek Job; Book of Job; Old Greek
Maximilian Häberlein, Universität of Würzburg, Germany.
Georg
Braulik
Das Buch Deuteronomium
Bibeltheologische Aufsätze
Reihe/Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche wissenschaft 561
Der vorliegende Sammelband, der siebente des Autors zum Buch Deuteronomium, enthält 14 Aufsätze, darunter zwei unveröffentlichte. Die Beiträge sind zwischen 2019 und 2024 in verschiedenen theologischen Zeitschriften, Sammelbänden und Festschriften erschienen. Sie behandeln zentrale bibeltheologische Themen des Deuteronomiums, beziehen aber zum Teil auch andere dafür relevante Schriften des Alten Testaments ausführlich in die Untersuchung ein. Theologie, systematische; Theologie, biblische; Deuteronomium
This anthology, the author’s seventh on the book of Deuteronomy, contains 14 essays, including two unpublished ones. The articles were published between 2019 and 2024 in various theological journals, anthologies and commemorative publications. They deal with central biblical-theological topics of Deuteronomy, but some also include other relevant Old Testament writings in the study. Deuteronomy; Old Testament; Theology Georg Braulik, Universität Wien, Österreich.
Tyler
D. Mayfield, Penelope Barter (Eds.)
Ezekiel’s Sign-Acts Methods and Interpretation
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche wissenschaft 562
November 2024
English, XII, 228 pp.
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The Ezekiel passages describing the instructions for, and dramatization of, divine messages are among the most bizarre in the Hebrew Bible. Yet these sign-acts are often overlooked within Ezekiel studies, which tend to focus on the book’s strange visions and controversial oracles. This volume addresses the growing diversity in approaches in Ezekiel studies by inviting international scholars to focus on the texts concerning Ezekiel’s sign-acts.
Ezekiel; sign acts; Old Testament; Hebrew Bible Tyler D. Mayfield, Lousville, KY, USA, and Penelope Barter, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Ryan D. Schroeder
Let Us Go to the Seer!
Prophecy, Scribal Culture, and the Invention of Hebrew Scripture
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche wissenschaft 563
March 2025
English, XV, 290 pp., 2 fig.
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Biblical prophecy has long been regarded as distinct from pagan divination: while the nations solicited divine messages, Hebrew prophets received revelation spontaneously. Ryan D. Schroeder challenges this false dichotomy. Rereading the Hebrew Bible and comparative West Asian texts, he argues that the spontaneity of Israelite revelation is largely a mirage produced by ancient scribes and modern scholars reifying a superior “biblical” religion.
Prophecy and divination; Hebrew Bible and Assyriology; scribal culture; power and religion
Ryan D. Schroeder, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Stefan C. Reif
Jewish Manuscripts, Prayers and Scholars
An Anthology of Historical, Linguistic and Liturgical Essays
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche wissenschaft 564
December 2024
English, VIII, 363 pp., 2 fig.
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Studies of the history of manuscripts and of their acquisition demonstrate their impact on research into Jewish studies and on modern Judaism. The analysis of medieval liturgical content reveals ideological and theological notions that lie behind prayer texts and the variant forms that they take. Scholars in Jewish studies had common characteristics but much remained that was individual about their lives, research publications and achievements.
Judaism; Hebrew; manuscripts; liturgy
Stefan C. Reif, St John’s College, University of Cambridge, England.
Günter Stemberger
The Wisdom of the Fathers
A Commentary on Tractate Avot
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche wissenschaft 565
September 2025
English, Approx. 285 pp.
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Tractate Avot (“The Fathers”), commonly dated in the third century, is the most popular tractate of the Mishnah. It belongs to the Wisdom Literature and is a strongly ethical tractate. The main emphasis of the commentary is not only on the meaning of its sayings, but on the transmission history of the tractate in order to subject the traditional date and the place of the tractate in rabbinic Judaism to a critical re-evaluation.
Pirqe Avot; reception history; Rabbinic theology; Wisdom literature
Günter Stemberger, University of Vienna, Austria.
Emanuelle Pastore
La sagesse mise à l’épreuve
La visite de la reine de Saba dans le cycle de Salomon (1 Rois 2 – 11) : une comparaison entre le Texte Massorétique et la Septante
Reihe/Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche wissenschaft 566
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La péricope de la reine venue de Saba et se rendant à Jérusalem pour éprouver Salomon par des énigmes (1 R 10,1-13) constitue la porte d’entrée de cette étude portant plus largement sur le cycle de Salomon (1 R 2-11). L’auteur s’intéresse à la construction narrative et théologique de 1 R 2-11 dans ses deux versions textuelles, avant de reconstituer les principales étapes rédactionnelles de ces chapitres.
Buch der Könige; Deuteronomistische Geschichtsschreibung; Septuaginta; Massoretischer Text
La péricope de la reine venue de Saba et se rendant à Jérusalem pour éprouver Salomon par des énigmes (1 R 10,1-13) constitue la porte d’entrée de cette étude portant plus largement sur le cycle de Salomon (1 R 2-11). L’auteur s’intéresse à la construction narrative et théologique de 1 R 2-11 dans ses deux versions textuelles, avant de reconstituer les principales étapes rédactionnelles de ces chapitres.
Books of Kings; Massoretic Text; Septuagint; Deuteronomistic History
Emanuelle Pastore, Institut Catholique de Paris, France.
Maximilian Rechholz Die
„Hiskianische Sammlung“ im Sprüchebuch
Zur Genese von Prov 25–29 und ein Vergleich mit den demotischen weisheitstexten
[“Hezekiah’s Collection” in the Book of Proverbs: The Genesis of Prov 25–29 and a Comparison with the Demotic Wisdom Texts]
Reihe/Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche wissenschaft 570
Die Arbeit hinterfragt die traditionelle Datierung der sogenannten „Hiskianischen Sammlung“ im Sprüchebuch (Kap. 25–29) ins späte 8. Jh. v. Chr. Durch eine Analyse der mehrfach bezeugten Einzelsprüche innerhalb des Sprüchebuchs sowie einem Vergleich mit den demotischen Lehren der ägyptischen Spätzeit erweist sich eine spätere Datierung in die nachexilische Zeit als plausibler, was zu einem neuen Verständnis der „Hiskianischen Sammlung“ führt.
Hebräische Bibel; Demotische Sprache; Buch der Sprüche; Weisheitsliteratur
This study challenges the traditional dating of “Hezekiah’s Collection” in the Book of Proverbs (chapters 25–29) to the late eighth century CE. An analysis of the frequently attested individual proverbs within the Book of Proverbs and a comparison with Demotic teachings from the Egyptian Late Period suggest a later, more plausible dating to the post-exilic period, resulting in a fresh understanding of the “Hezekiah’s Collection.”
Maximilian Rechholz, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Mariana Assaf Water Imagery in the Book of Jeremiah
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche wissenschaft 571
October 2025
English, 335 pp., 0 fig.
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The powerful imagery of water, with its recurring and complex manifestations, gives unity and structure to the Book of Jeremiah. Through a close reading of each occurrence of this image, this study demonstrates how the Book of Jeremiah offers a theological reinterpretation of the entire political and religious history of Israel, from the crisis of the covenant to its rupture and ultimately to its restoration in a new covenant.
Water; Metaphor; Covenant
Mariana Assaf, Rom, Italy.
Andrew Montanaro
The Sage in Relation
Family in Ben Sira’s House of Discipline
Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 45
April 2025
English, XVIII, 316 pp.
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Living in a time of growing Hellenistic pressures, the Jewish sage Ben Sira sought to strengthen his students’ piety. He accomplishes this by uniting the conception of the sage as father of his students to the spousal relationship the sage shares with personified Wisdom. In developing these themes, Ben Sira provides the model by which his students can raise pious children in a family that resembles their pedagogical situation under Ben Sira.
Wisdom; Family Language; Second Temple Andrew Montanaro, Alexandria, VA, USA.
Benedikt Josef Collinet
Durch das Meer
Ein Neuentwurf kontextueller Exegese am Beispiel der Exodusrezeption in den Deuterokanonika
[Through the Ocean: A New Concept of Contextual Exegesis Based on the Reception of Exodus in the Deuterocanonical Books]
Reihe/Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 55
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-130119-8 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-130133-4
Eine wichtige Frage der Gegenwart ist, wie man heute heilige Texte im säkularen und theologischen Kontext lesen kann. Dieses Buch wagt den Versuch, ein zweistufiges Modell vorzuschlagen, das pluralitätsfähig und integrativ ist. Die Neubesinnung auf kontextuelle Exegese wird dabei an der innerbiblischen Wirkungsgeschichte des ExodusStoffes erprobt, genauer daran, wie er sich in den „hellenistischen“ Büchern der Bibel und des Frühjudentums zeigt.
Exodus; Biblische Hermeneutik; Intertextualität
One important question being asked today is how to read sacred texts in secular and theological contexts. This books proposes a two-stage model that is integrative and capable of plurality. It attempts a rethinking of contextual exegesis by looking at the inner-Biblical reception history of the Exodus material – to be more precise, by examining how it is revealed in the “Hellenistic” books of the Bible and early Judaism.
Exodus; Biblical hermeneutics; intertextuality
Benedikt Josef Collinet, Universität Innsbruck, Österreich.
Topias K.E. Tanskanen Jacob in Jubilees
Jacob, the Torah and the Abrahamic Promise
Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 57
August 2025
English, Approx. 385 pp., 1 fig.
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The study concerns how the Jacob Story of the Book of Genesis was interpreted by the author of the Book of Jubilees in the 2nd century BCE. It focusses on three key themes, the patriarch Jacob as the people of Israel, Jacob’s close relationship to the Mosaic Torah (esp. Deuteronomy), and Jacob as the recipient of all the promises given to Abraham. Jacob exemplifies the perfect Israelite who fulfils the Torah and can thus inherit the promises.
Book of Jubilees; reception history of the Bible; interpretation of the Bible; parabiblical literature
Topias K. E. Tanskanen, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland.
Benedikt Josef Collinet, Frank Ueberschaer (Eds.) Jew-hatred in the Second Temple Period
Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 58
June 2025
English, German, Approx. 330 pp.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 117.99 / £ 93.50
ISBN 978-3-11-103237-5
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The volume presents studies on Jew-hatred and how it was encountered in the Second Temple period. It includes contributions on literature from the Hellenistic and Roman times from different proveniences, ranging from Jewish literature in Greek language (e.g. Septuagint and Philo) to prejudices and resentments in the works of Greek and Roman authors.
Antijudaism; Hellenism; Second Temple Period, Jew-hatred
Benedikt Collinet, Passau University, and Frank Ueberschaer, Martin-LutherUniversität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany.
Viktor Kókai-Nagy, Ádám Vér (Eds.) Josephus and the Maccabees
Series: Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 59
February 2026
English, 200 pp., 0 fig.
HC *RRP € 104.95 / US$ 115.99 / £ 95.50
ISBN 978-3-11-914918-1
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In most cases, the literature on the books of the Maccabees considers Josephus as a supplementary source. In this volume, we take Josephus as our primary source and explore how and what he wrote about the Maccabees. With 11 essays in English and German and an introduction by Steve Mason on the history of research, this volume aims to bring the reader closer to Josephus’ view of the Maccabees and his interpretation of these works.
Josephus; Maccabees; Books of; Second Temple Judaism; Hasmoneans
Viktor Kókai-Nagy, János-Selye-University, Slovakia; Ádám Vér, ELTE, Budapest, Hungary.
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Annette Schellenberg (Ed.)
The Song of Songs Through the Ages
Essays on the Song’s Reception History in Different Times, Contexts, and Genres
Series: Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR) 8
November 2024
English, VII, 513 pp., 32 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 29.95 / US$ 32.99 / £ 27.50
ISBN 978-3-11-162094-7
Read as an allegory of God’s love for Israel, the Church, or individual believers, the Song of Songs became one of the most influential texts from the Bible. The essays in this volume cover the Song’s rich reception history from antiquity to the present, paying attention to diverse interpretations in commentaries, sermons, and other literature, as well as the Song’s impact on spirituality, theological and intellectual debates, and the arts. Song of Songs; reception history; allegory; interpretation; spirituality
Annette Schellenberg, Vienna University, Austria.
Rachelle Lynda Gilmour, Benjamin Johnson (Eds.)
Explorations in the Interpretation of Samuel
Intertextuality and Reception
Series: Studies of the Bible and Its Reception (SBR) 26
December 2024
English, VII, 273 pp.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 117.99 / £ 97.50
ISBN 978-3-11-114364-4
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-114386-6
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The volume consists of 21 essays from an international group of scholars. The volume is broken into two parts: Reading Samuel with the Hebrew Bible, and beyond the Hebrew Bible. Each section will offer readings of portions of the Book of Samuel that engage with other texts. The chapters are arranged in the order of the narrative sequence of Samuel to highlight the way reading with other texts can inform a reading of the Book of Samuel.
Rachelle Gilmour, University of Melbourne, Australia; Benjamin Johnson, LeTourneau University, USA.
Stefan Schorch (Ed.)
Samaritan Languages, Texts, and Traditions
Collected Studies
Series: Studia Samaritana 8
November 2025
English, Approx. VI, 420 pp., 10 fig.
HC *RRP € 114.95 / US$ 144.99 / £ 103.50
ISBN 978-3-11-031936-1
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The volume collects 18 studies dealing with Samaritan Hebrew and Samaritan Aramaic, the Samaritan Pentateuch and Targum, medieval Samaritan exegetical texts in Arabic, the image of the Samaritans in the New Testament and in Rabbinic literature, theology, genealogy, and research into Samaritan artifacts and the relevance of Samaritan traditions for further fields of research and reflect the current status quaestionis in Samaritan studies. Samaritan Pentateuch; Samaritan Targum; Hebrew linguistic; Samaritan Arabic
Stefan Schorch, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Isaac W. Oliver, Jocelyn McWhirter, Joshua Scott (Eds.)
Luke and Acts with(in) Second Temple Judaism
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche wissenschaft 256
December 2025
English, Approx. 650 pp., 18 fig.
HC *RRP € 124.95 / US$ 140.99 / £ 111.00
ISBN 978-3-11-078490-9
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Specialists explore the relationship of Luke and Acts to Judaism. Convinced that no NT text can be properly understood apart from its Jewish matrix, key questions concerning Luke’s authorship, audience, and interests are revisited. The volume also evaluates Luke and Acts within their Greco-Roman environment in light of their Jewish character. Finally, it compares Luke and Acts with other early Christian writings in relation to Jews and Judaism.
Christian origins; Jewish-Christian relations; „Parting of the Ways„; Jewish context of the New Testament
Isaac W. Oliver, Bradley University; Jocelyn McWirther, Albion College; Joshua Scott, University of Michigan, USA.
Rechtsgeschichtlicher Kommentar zum Neuen Testament
Folker Siegert (Hrsg./Ed.)
Band II: Die Logienquelle und das Markusevangelium
[A Law History Commentary of the New Testament, Volume II: The Four Evangelists and Their Sources]
In Zusammenarb. mit/In collab. with Johann Maier (†), Detlev Dormeyer In Gemeinschaft mit/Together with Susanne Benöhr-Laqueur
Das Neue Testament enthält Rechtsfälle und -begriffe, die noch keine fachkundige Behandlung erfahren haben. Hier wird interdisziplinär nach heutigem Wissensstand ermittelt, welche Rechtsbegriffe, aramäisch, hebräisch, griechisch oder römisch, dem Verhalten der Menschen sowie der sprachlichen Darstellung zugrunde lagen, differenziert nach Ort und Zeit. Daraus ergeben sich konkretere Textaussagen, wie sie bisher Kommentaren nicht möglich waren. Jesusforschung; Luthertum; Naturrecht; neutestamentliche Rechtsgeschichte
The New Testament contains legal cases and terms that have never received scholarly attention. This interdisciplinary study draws on the latest research to differentiate by period and location which legal concepts – Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, or Roman – determine people’s behavior in the text and the applicable linguistic forms. This innovative approach reaches concrete new conclusions about the text that previous commentaries have missed. Pre-rabbinic law; classical Roman law; Lutheran systematic theology; history of law
Folker Siegert und Susanne BenöhrLaqueur, Universität Münster.
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Ulrich Berges Justice and Righteousness in the Old Testament
Reflecting on Slavery in the Hebrew Bible
Series: Dependency and Slavery Studies 20
June 2025
English, 8 , 266 pp., 0 fig.
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This book combines two closely related research interests that have not yet received sufficient recognition: The investigation of justice in the Hebrew Bible and the position of male and female slaves within it. Justice in the ancient Near East and in the Old Testament is of a transcendent quality that precedes God and humans alike. In this worldview, the link between act and consequence is constitutive, but slaves are excluded as mere property.
Old Testament; ethics; God / Sovereignty
Ulrich Berges, University of Bonn, Germany.
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Emanuel Tov (Ed.) DEAD SEA SCROLLS ELECTRONIC LIBRARY
The Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library includes Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Biblical Texts and Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library Non-Biblical Texts.
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Ayhan Aksu
COLLECTING PRACTICES AND OPISTHOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS IN QUMRAN AND HERCULANEUM
Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah, 149
2025. xvi, 273 pp.
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TEXTUAL EVOLUTION AND GROWTH OF THE ENOCHIC THEOPHANY IN THE BOOK OF THE WATCHERS 1:1-9
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DEVOTED RESISTANCE
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Matthijs den Dulk, Joshua Schwartz, Peter J. Tomson, Joseph Verheyden (Eds.) JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN THE FIRST AND SECOND CENTURIES: MAPPING THE SECOND CENTURY
Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, 18 2024. xx, 336 pp.
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Judit Bokser Liwerant
NATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL PATHS OF LATIN
AMERICAN JEWS Modernity, Community, Society, and the State
Jewish Identities in a Changing World, 36 2025. xvi, 712 pp.
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Yael Sela
THE PEOPLE OF THE SONG
Biblical Poetry, Translation, and the Reception of Moses Mendelssohn in the Berlin Haskalah Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 80 2025. xviii, 174 pp.
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Claudia D. Bergmann, Thomas R. Blanton IV (Eds.) IMITATING ABRAHAM
Ritual and Exemplarity in Jewish and Christian Contexts
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Lawrence H. Schiffman SOURCES AND INTERPRETATIONS
Studies in Ancient Jewish History, Literature, and Religion
The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, 78 2025. 923 pp.
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Now in paperback
Daniel Stein Kokin (Ed.) Hebrew between
Jews and Christians
Series: Studia Judaica 77
November 2024
English, VI, 357 pp., 9 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / US$ 21.99 / £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-161995-8
Though typically associated more with Judaism than Christianity, the status and sacrality of Hebrew has nonetheless been engaged by both religious cultures in often strikingly similar ways. The language has furthermore played an important, if vexed, role in relations between the two. Hebrew between Jews and Christians closely examines this frequently overlooked aspect of Judaism and Christianity’s common heritage and mutual competition.
Jewish Studies; Jewish-Christian relations; Christian Hebraism; Christian Theology
Daniel Stein Kokin, University Greifswald, Germany.
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Hannah M. Cotton
Ofer Pogorelsky (Ed.)
Roman Rule and Jewish Life Collected Papers
Series: Studia Judaica 89
June 2024
English, XXXII, 607 pp., 1 fig.
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ISBN 978-3-11-151853-4
The collected papers in this volume illuminate fundamental, often legal, questions concerning daily life under and the exercise of Roman rule and administration in the early imperial period, and especially, their impact on life as it was lived in the province and the period where Roman and Jewish history fatefully intersected. The volume includes a complete bibliography of her publications. Provincial Jurisdiction; Jewish law; legal contracts; conflicts of law
Hannah M. Cotton, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Robert G. Goldenberg (†)
Barry Dov Walfish (Ed.) Studies in Ancient Judaism
and Rabbinic Literature
Series: Studia Judaica 126
August 2025
English, Approx. 300 pp., 1 fig.
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This volume presents a selection of the works of Professor Robert G. Goldenberg, a leading scholar of Rabbinic Judaism. From the rabbinic interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures to the formation of the Babylonian Talmud, Goldenberg explores core themes of Jewish law, history, and religious thought. This collection offers a lasting tribute to Goldenberg’s enduring contributions to our understanding of the Jewish tradition.
Robert G. Goldenberg (†), emeritus, Stony Brook University, NY; Barry Dov Walfish, emeritus, University of Toronto Libraries.
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Gavin McDowell
The Rewritten Bible in Late Antiquity
»Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer«, »Jubilees« and the »Cave of Treasures«
Series: Studia Judaica 138
July 2025
English, Approx. XIII, 506 pp.
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This study analyzes the sources of Pirqe deRabbi Eliezer (PRE), an eighth-century “Late Midrash” thought to have drawn from the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha. It focuses on the two Pseudepigrapha which are closest in form and content to PRE, the Second Temple Jubilees and late antique Cave of Treasures, all three of which are types of Rewritten Bible. In the end, PRE drew from its own cultural environment rather than long-lost texts. Pseudepigrapha; Rewritten Bible; Rabbinic literature; Syriac literature
Gavin McDowell, Institut de recherche et d’histoire des textes, CNRS, Paris, France.
Dagmar Börner-Klein (Hrsg./Ed.)
Jalkut Schimoni
Rabbinische Bibelauslegung im Mittelalter
[Yalkut Shimoni: Rabbinical Biblical Interpretation in the Middle Ages]
Der Jalkut Schimoni ist ein Sammelwerk rabbinischer Auslegungen zur gesamten Hebräischen Bibel. Unerforscht ist, nach welchen Kriterien die Auslegungen ausgewählt wurden und ob das Werk als umfassendes Nachschlagewerk für exegetische Fragen, zur Verbindung von Bibelauslegung in Talmud und Midrasch oder zur Reform der rabbinischen Auslegungstradition konzipiert wurde. Die Übersetzung des Werkes ist ein erster Schritt, diese Fragen zu beantworten. Rabbinisches Judentum; Genesis; Jüdische Schriftauslegung; Mittelalter
The Yalkut Shimoni is a compilation of rabbinic interpretations of the Hebrew Bible. There has been no research into the criteria used to select them, nor do we know whether the work was intended as a reference work for exegetical issues, for connecting biblical interpretations in the Talmud and Midrash, or for reforming the rabbinic tradition of interpretation. The translation in this volume is a first step toward answering these questions. Genesis; Jewish biblical exegesis; Middle Ages; rabbinic Judaism
Dagmar Börner-Klein, Universität Düsseldorf, und Beat Zuber (†), Neudorf, Schweiz.
Catharina Rachik, Georges Tamer (Eds.)
The Concept of Justice in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Series: Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses 4
July 2025
English, Approx. 240 pp.
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The concept of justice is a fundamental tenet of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, influencing their theological, ethical, and social perspectives. The pursuit of a just world is a central concern of these religions, emphasizing human responsibility, compassion, and mercy. This book presents a comprehensive overview of the understanding of justice in each one of the three religions, elucidating the similarities and differences between them. interreligiosity; vindication; social justice
Catharina Rachik and Georges Tamer, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Catharina Rachik, Georges Tamer (Eds.)
The Concept of Tolerance in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Series: Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses 7
November 2025
English, Approx. 180 pp.
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ISBN 978-3-11-077288-3
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Tolerance as a universal value of modernity is not usually associated in popular consciousness with religion, which is often regarded as inherently intolerant. This book addresses the hermeneutics of tolerance regarding Jewish, Christian and Islamic traditions and traces the promotion of tolerance in different historical and cultural settings. It demonstrates that tolerance occupies in fact an important place in the three monotheistic religions.
Pluralism; exclusivism; minority
Catharina Rachik and Georges Tamer, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Catharina Rachik, Georges Tamer (Eds.)
The Concept of Evil in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Series: Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses 16
November 2024
English, VIII, 177 pp.
Pb. *RRP € 29.95 / US$ 32.99 / £ 27.50
ISBN 978-3-11-158622-9
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This volume explores aspects of the concept of evil in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, including major theodicy discussions as well as contemporary developments. Throughout history and even today, religions have struggled with the question of how a benevolent God can allow evil to exist in the world. The book offers diverse answers to existential questions and highlights the similarities and differences among the three religions on this topic.
Trial; suffering; theodicy
Catharina Rachik and Georges Tamer, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Andrea Worm, Maria Streicher (Eds.) The Menorah
and the Seven-branched Candelabrum
Jewish and Christian Manifestations in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods
For both Judaism and Christianity, the Menorah is an iconic artefact. It played a prominent role as an implement of the Tabernacle in the desert and the Temple, and it also figures prominently in Christian imagery. This volume brings together reflections on the Menorah in both Jewish and Christian traditions and contributes to a better understanding of their cultural entanglement in pre-modern times.
Menorah; seven-branched candelabrum; Middle Ages; early modern times
Andrea Worm and Maria Streicher, Department of Art History, Tübingen University, Germany.
Ryann Craig
The Qur’ānic Cross and the Missing Substitute in Early MuslimChristian Polemics
Tracing the Qur’ānic Crucifixion (Q 4:157–158) before the Rise of the Substitution Narrative
Series: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation 25
November 2025
English, Approx. 250 pp.
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By the ninth century, Muslim commentators put forth the idea that another person was crucified in Jesus’ place. However, mention of this substitution rarely occurs in early writings between Muslims and Christians, even when discussing the cross. This study demonstrates the lack of evidence for the substitute narrative as an established interpretation among Muslim and Christian theologians from the eighth to the eleventh centuries.
Ryann Craig, Georgetown University, Washington, USA.
Reuven Kiperwasser, Aryeh Kofsky, Serge Ruzer
Late Antique Jewish and Christian Travelogues
Religious Aspects and Cultural Backgrounds
Series: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation 27
December 2024
English, VI, 174 pp., 0 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 117.99 / £ 97.50
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This volume discusses Christian and Jewish travel narratives against the background of both biblical exempla and the heavy presence of broader storytelling cultures. Special attention is paid to narrative strategies, aiming at outlining, modifying, and erasing borders with “monotheistic competitors” as well as pagan patterns. While the first part highlights appalling sea adventures, the second focuses on the travel to and around Holy Land.
Travel Fiction; migrating persona; early Christianity; Rabbinic Judaism
Edition and Translation of Christian Petter Löwe’s “Speculum Religionis Judaicæ” (1732)
Funded by Vetenskapsrådet / The Swedish Research Council
Series: Religious Minorities in the North 6
January 2024
English, , XII, 333 pp., 2 fig.
HC *RRP € 79.95 / US$ 89.99 / £ 70.00
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Christian Petter Löwe, a Jewish convert to Lutheranism, published Speculum Religionis Judaicæ (Mirror of the Jewish Religion) in 1732. Jonathan Adams (University of Gothenburg) introduces the background to Löwe’s “mirror” and presents the original Swedish text alongside an annotated English translation. It shows how Christian ethnographical writing about Jewish ceremonies arrived in Sweden long before Judereglementet of 1782.
Christian Petter Löwe; edition; early modern period; Judaism; Swedish text
Jonathan Adams, Department of Historical Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
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Vibeke Moe Bjørnbekk Narratives about Jews among Muslims in Norway
A qualitative interview study
Funded by Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies
Series: Religious Minorities in the North 7
June 2024
English, VIII, 320 pp.
HC *RRP € 79.95 / US$ 87.99 / £ 73.00
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The interreligious exchange between Islam and Judaism is as old as Islam. Today, the political situation in the Middle East and the situation of Muslims as minorities in Europe constitute important backdrops to the relationship between Muslims and Jews. Based on data from qualitative individual interviews, this book explores narratives about Jews among Muslims in contemporary Norway.
Vibeke Moe Bjørnbekk, the Norwegian Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies, Oslo, Norway.
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Judith Frishman, Thorsten Fuchshuber (Eds.)
Samuel Hirsch
Philosopher of Religion, Advocate of Emancipation and Radical Reformer
Series: Studia Judaica 97
June 2024
English, VII, 355 pp., 1 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 19.95 / US$ 21.99 / £ 18.50
ISBN 978-3-11-151859-6
Rabbi Samuel Hirsch is one of the most important transnational Jewish Reform theologians and philosophers of religion of the 19th century. He remains a key figure for understanding the contemporaneous debates in Western Europe and the United States on questions of Jewish emancipation, Jewish identity, the compatibility of religion, state and society, the relationship between particularism and universalism as well as the critique of antisemitism.
Reform Judaism; 19th century; Luxembourg; philosophy of religion
Judith Frishman, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Thorsten Fuchshuber, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Nach den radikalen Destruktionen der deutsch jüdischen Aufklärung in den politischen Theologien von Orthodoxie und Zionismus nach dem ersten Weltkrieg, versuchen Gershom Scholem und Martin Buber eine dialogische Form jüdischer Aufklärung zu entwerfen, die gegen den nationalen und den orthodoxen Exodus – auf deren postsäkulare Relegitimation zielt.
Cassirer, Ernst; Kulturgeschichte; Christlichjüdische Beziehungen; Symboltheorie; Deutschjüdische Geschichte
Following the radical destruction of the German-Jewish Enlightenment in the political theologies of Orthodoxy and Zionism after the First World War, Gershom Scholem and Martin Buber attempted to develop a dialogic form of Jewish Enlightenment that would counter the national and Orthodox exodus –aimed at their post-secular relegitimization.
Cassirer, Ernst; Cultural History; Christian-Jewish Relations; Symbol Theory; German-Jewish History
Christoph Schmidt, Hebräische Universität, Jerusalem, Israel.
Stefan C. Reif, Richard S. Sarason (Eds.)
Jacob Mann: A Centennial Review
Series: Rethinking Diaspora 10
June 2025
English, Approx. 240 pp.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 120.99 / £ 100.00
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Jacob Mann was a major figure in Genizah studies in the early twentieth century. This volume evaluates his contributions to the field in the light of developments since then. Based on papers delivered at a centennial-marking conference at St. John’s College, Cambridge, it appraises his work in the areas of medieval Jewish history, particularly Geonica; Jewish liturgy and homiletics; calendar studies; Jewish messianism; and Karaitica.
Genizah studies; medieval Jewish history; rabbinic literature and liturgy; Karaitica
Stefan C. Reif, St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, U.K.; Richard S. Sarason, Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Ottfried Fraisse (Hrsg./Ed.)
Wissenstransfer und Ignaz Goldzihers ungarische Wissenschaft
Jüdische Bildung, lokale Öffentlichkeiten, europäische Kontexte
[Knowledge Transfer and Ignaz Goldziher's Hungarian Science]
Die auf Ungarisch verfassten Texte des jüdischen Orientalisten Ignaz Goldziher stellen einen großen Anteil seines Werks dar. Sie umfassen ein ungewöhnlich breites Spektrum an Genres: neben populärwissenschaftlichen Artikeln auch Lehrpläne für die örtliche Talmud-Tora Schule, Vorlesungen und Nachrufe auf ungarische Orientalisten. Es eint sie ein durch die starke Ortsbindung inspirierter Wissenstransfer aus und in die europäische Wissenschaft.
Orientalistik; Budapest; Wissenschaft des Judentums; Wissenschaftsgeschichte
The texts written in Hungarian by the Jewish orientalist Ignaz Goldziher represent a large portion of his oeuvre. They encompass an unusually broad spectrum of genres: in addition to popular science articles, they also include curricula for the local Talmud Torah school, lectures, and obituaries of Hungarian orientalists. They are united by a transfer of knowledge from and to European scholarship, inspired by their strong local ties. Oriental Studies; Budapest; Wissenschaft des Judentums; Science history
Ottfried Fraisse, Universität HalleWittenberg, Halle/Saale.
Susanne Plietzsch
Geteilte Diskurse
Moritz Rahmers „Die hebräischen Traditionen in den werken des Hieronymus“ zum Buch Genesis
[The Presence of Judaism in Christianity: Parallel Motifs in Moritz Rahmer’s Discussion of Jerome on the Book of Genesis]
Unter Mitarb. v./In collab. with Victoria Zimmerl-Panagl, Oliver Achilles Gefördert von/Funded by FWF
Die Dissertation des Breslauer Rabbinatskandidaten Moritz Rahmer (1837–1904) zu den Quaestiones Hebraicae in Genesin des Hieronymus wird bis heute zitiert. Rahmers Anliegen war es, die Einflüsse jüdischer Lehrer auf den Kirchenvater ins Bewusstsein der akademischen Öffentlichkeit zu rücken. In dieser kommentierten Neuedition werden Rahmers Textbeispiele diskutiert und die Dissertation in den Kontext der Wissenschaft des Judentums gestellt.
Bibelexegese; Rabbinische Literatur; Wissenschaft des Judentums; Patristik
The dissertation by Breslau rabbinical candidate Moritz Rahmer (1837–1904) on Jerome’s Quaestiones Herbraicae in Genesin is still being cited today. Rahmer’s objective was to draw the attention of the academic public to the influence of Jewish teachers on the Fathers of the Church. This annotated new edition discusses examples from Rahmer’s text and situates his dissertation within the context of Jewish scholarship. Jewish scholarship; biblical criticism; Patristics Susanne Plietzsch, Universität Salzburg.
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Fabian Freiseis Religion, Esoterik und Nation im frühen Zionismus (1900–1923)
Eine genealogische Untersuchung zu Buber, Gordon und Borochov
[Religion, Esotericism, and the Nation in Early Zionism (1900–23): A Genealogical Study of Buber, Gordon, and Borochov]
Identitätsdebatten prägen unsere Gegenwart. Im Zentrum der Publikation stehen Werke von Martin Buber, Aharon Gordon und Ber Borochov und die Frage, wie diese jüdisch-zionistische Identität inmitten global nachzuweisender Vorstellungen von Nation, Religion und Esoterik auf je eigene Weise konstruiert haben. Dieser Nachvollzug identitätsbildender Prozesse macht deutlich, wie bereits im frühen Zionismus um Tradition und Erneuerung gerungen wurde. Postkolonialismus; Identitätsdiskurse; Identität, jüdische; Frühzionismus
Ours is an age shaped by identity debates. This publication focuses on works by Martin Buber, Aharon Gordon, and Ber Borochov, and asks how these authors construed JewishZionist identity in the midst of global notions of nation, religion, and esotericism – each in their own way. This exploration of processes of identity building illustrates the struggles over tradition and reform, even in early Zionism.
Identity; Post-colonialism; global history of religions; identity discourses
Fabian Freiseis, Universität Heidelberg.
Sebastian Venske
Gustav Landauer als jüdischer Intellektueller?
Eine Biografie
[Gustav Landauer as a Jewish Intellectual? A Biography]
Gustav Landauer (1870–1919) gilt als bedeutender Vertreter des deutschsprachigen Anarchismus. Dieses Buch geht der Frage nach, ob Landauer auch als jüdischer Intellektueller gelten kann und wie er in die jüdische Kulturgeschichte seiner Zeit einzuordnen ist. Dabei wird auch der Einfluss seines Aufwachsens und der von ihm als jüdisch verstandenen angeeigneten Traditionen auf sein Werk untersucht.
Mit einem Vorwort von Paul Mendes-Flohr. Martin Buber; Kulturzionismus; Jüdischer Anarchismus
Gustav Landauer (1870–1919) is considered an important representative of Germanspeaking anarchism. This book asks whether Landauer can also be seen as a Jewish intellectual and how he fits into the Jewish cultural history of his time, examining the influence of his upbringing and the appropriated tradition that he perceived as Jewish on his work.
With a preface by Paul Mendes-Flohr. Martin Buber; Jewish anarchism; Cultural Zionism Sebastian Venske, Potsdam.
David B. Ruderman
The Making of an Anglo-Jewish Scholar
The Unconventional Life and Thought of Solomon yom Tov Bennett (1767–1838)
Series: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts 29
June 2025
English, X, 234 pp., 28 fig.
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This book is a study of the life and thought of the Polish Jew Solomon Yom Tov Bennett (1767–1838). Arriving in London, he encountered an educated group of English literati who found him useful for their own intellectual purposes while respecting his commitment to Judaism and his talents as a biblical exegete and translator of the Hebrew Bible. Jewish-Christian relations; Bible commentary; Art and Religion; Biblical translation
David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Adi Louria Hayon
Bruce Nauman
Performative Scepticism and the Aporia of Sense
Series: Studies and Texts in Scepticism 10
May 2024
English, XX, 218 pp., 93 fig.
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This book investigates the audio/visual works created by American artist Bruce Nauman (b.1941) from 1965 to the present. A particular attention is given to sensual perception and the limits of epistemological equipment. By focusing on contraptions of perception, his works cast doubt on the validity of truth in the production and perception of reality through the performativity of the acts of thinking and sensing.
Performative skepticism; Bruce Nauman; Postminimalism; Art
Adi Louria Hayon, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Jack
Ross (Ed.)
Liberal Jewish Anti-Zionism
The American Council for Judaism, A Primary Source Reader
With an introd. by Mark Glickman
June 2025
English, Approx. XI, 220 pp.
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Jewish opposition to Zionism is typically associated with either ultra-Orthodox Jews or revolutionary socialist Jews far removed from Jewish religion. Until recently, the liberal Jewish dissent has been all but written out of the historical record. This reader is the first collection of primary sources on the American Council for Judaism, founded during World War II and active through the 1960s, and their social democratic allies.
Anti-Zionism; Middle East; Reform Judaism
Jack Ross, Brooklyn, New York.
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Bestseller und Highlights jiddischer Literatur in einem Set – wir präsentieren 10 Bände zur Vielfalt jiddischer Sprache und Kultur, darunter Gedichte von Avrom Sutzkever und Scholem Alejchems „Eisenbahngeschichten“ im Original und Übersetzung, jiddischsprachige Anthologien, wissenschaftliche Reflexionen zu aktuellen Themen und ein Standardwerk jiddischer Grammatik in Neuauflage. Eine facettenreiche Sammlung jiddischer Lebens- und Lesewelten.
f 10 Bände – 10 Highlights jiddischer Literatur f Ein Set zur Vielfalt jiddischer Literatur, Sprache und Kultur f Ca. 25 % Preisvorteil
Die Reihe Jiddistik Edition und Forschung wird von Efrat Gal-Ed, Roland Gruschka und Simon Neuberg herausgegeben. In der Reihe erscheinen wissenschaftliche Studien – Sammelbände und Monografien – zu Jiddistik sowie philologische Editionen und Studienausgaben jiddischer Literatur aus allen Epochen. Die Bände werfen ein Schlaglicht auf den internationalen Diskurs und die thematische und methodologische Vielfalt jiddistischer Forschung der Gegenwart. Mit dem Fokus auf die moderne jiddische Literatur sowie die Disziplinen Literatur und Sprache des Älteren Jiddisch, Sprache und Sprachwissenschaften, Literaturwissenschaft und -theorie, Philologie, Kultur, Geschichte und Politik umfasst die Reihe ein breites inhaltliches Spektrum. Jiddisch, Englisch und Deutsch stehen als Publikationssprachen gleichberechtigt nebeneinander.
Im Set
Efrat Gal-Ed, Roland Gruschka, Simon Neuberg (Hrsg./Eds.)
Set: Jiddisch lesen
Jiddistik Edition und Forschung Bd. 1-10
Reihe/Series: Jiddistik. Edition und Forschung / yiddish. Editions and Research
Bestseller und Highlights jiddischer Literatur in einem Set – wir präsentieren 10 Bände zur Vielfalt jiddischer Sprache und Kultur, darunter Gedichte von Avrom Sutzkever und Scholem Alejchems „Eisenbahngeschichten“ im Original und Übersetzung, jiddischsprachige Anthologien, wissenschaftliche Reflexionen zu aktuellen Themen und ein Standardwerk jiddischer Grammatik in Neuauflage. Eine facettenreiche Sammlung jiddischer Lebensund Lesewelten.
Bestsellers and highlights of Yiddish literature in one set. We are presenting 10 volumes on the richness of Yiddish language and culture, including poems by Avrom Sutzkever, the original "Railway Stories" by Scholem Alejchem and their translation, Yiddish anthologies, academic reflections on current topics, and a new edition of a standard volume on Yiddish grammar. This is a multifaceted collection about Yiddish life and literature.
Mit dem dritten Band der Schriftenreihe Jiddistik: Edition & Forschung liegt der vollständige Erzählungszyklus Eisenbahngeschichten von Scholem Alejchem (1859–1916) nun erstmals zweisprachig, jiddisch und deutsch, vor. Die umfassend korrigierte Neuauflage zeichnet sich durch einen aktualisierten Kommentar-Teil und eine verbesserte Übersetzung aus.
Moderne Jiddische Literatur; Jiddische Kurzgeschichten; Jiddistik
The third volume in the series Yiddish: Edition & Research presents the “Railway Stories” of Sholem Aleichem (1859–1916) in their entirety, for the first time in a bilingual Yiddish-German edition.
Yiddish Studies, modern jewish literature, Yiddish short stories
E. Gal-Ed, G. Jonas, Heinrich-HeineUniversität Düsseldorf; S. Neuberg, Universität Trier, Trier.
Katja Šmid, David Bunis, Chava Turniansky (Eds.) Rabbinical Literature in
Yiddish and Ladino
Series: Studia Judaica 139
November 2025
English, Approx. 400 pp., 13 fig.
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A broad introduction to the rabbinical literature written in the two major Jewish languages of Europe, Yiddish and Ladino. The essays shed light on traditional genres such as rabbinical responsa, halakhic compendia, minhagim books, Biblical commentaries, ethical works, and paraliturgical compositions; as well as on modern genres with rabbinic content such as the periodical press that began to appear in the mid-nineteenth century.
Yiddish; Ladino; Rabbinical literature; Jewish languages
Katja Šmid, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid; David M. Bunis and Chava Turnansky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Evi Michels (Ed.)
Polemical Jewish Entertainments in Amsterdam
A yiddish Manuscript of ‚Toledot yeshu’ (Ms. Amsterdam, EH 47 A 21)
February 2026
English, yiddish, Approx. 300 pp., 6 fig.
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Jewish polemical Jesus stories (“Toledot Yeshu“) are based on the gospels and on Christian legends. They circulated since the Middle Ages in different text versions. In the Amsterdam Jewish metropole, a religiously open climate prevailed in the 18th century. The Yiddish manuscript, which is edited here for the first time, is an outstanding testimony how Ashkenazic Jews from Amsterdam took notice of their Christian neighbors and their believes.
Tôledôt Yēšû; polemic; Amsterdam; edition Evi Michels, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Racha Kirakosian, Linus Ubl (Hrsg./Eds.)
Multivocality and Responsiveness.
Medieval Literature in Dialogue
Essays by Almut Suerbaum in Context
Reihe/Series: Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures
Das reiche literaturwissenschaftliche Werk Almut Suerbaums verbindet gekonnt die sehr unterschiedlichen englisch- und deutschsprachigen Forschungstraditionen. Dieser Band präsentiert einige ihrer wichtigsten Aufsätze und bietet befreundeten Kolleg*innen Raum für Diskussion, aktuelle Einordnung und Würdigung ihres wissenschaftlichen Beitrages.
At the intersection between the Anglophone and the German sphere with their individual and distinctly different academic environments, Almut Suerbaum’s oeuvre has bridged these worlds. This volume brings together some of her most influential works, and in addition provides the space for colleagues and friends to embed individual contributions within wider frameworks of scholarship. Medieval literature; narratology; poetry; song Racha Kirakosian, Freiburg University, Germany; Linus Ubl, Martin Buber Society, Jerusalem, Israel.
Stephan Jaeger, James Bulgin (Eds.)
The New Holocaust Galleries at the Imperial War Museum London
Conception, Design, Interpretation
Series: Museums and Narrative 3
July 2025
English, Approx. X, 400 pp., 41 fig.
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In October 2021, the Imperial War Museum London opened its new Holocaust Galleries Bringing museum practitioners and academic scholars together, this book provides an indepth analysis of the exhibition in its design, realisation, and impact. By situating it within global discourses of Holocaust representation, the volume probes the possibilities and limitations of representing trauma and violence in museums today.
Holocaust Education; Genocide and Human Rights Museums; Exhibition Curation; Memory Studies
James Bulgin, Imperial War Museum, London, UK; Stephan Jaeger, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
Christian Ernst, Patrick Eser (Hrsg./Eds.)
Der Fall Eichmann transnational
Gesellschaftliche und kulturelle wirkungen in Deutschland, Israel und Südamerika
[The Eichmann Case in Transnational Perspective. Social and Cultural Effects in Germany, Israel and South America] Dezember/December 2024 Deutsch/German, VIII, 544 S./pp., 22 Abb./fig.
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Der Eichmann-Prozess hatte einschneidende Wirkung auf die Rechtsgeschichte und die Auseinandersetzung mit der Shoah und NSTäterschaft. In der Geschichte, Rezeption und Erinnerung des Prozesses 1961 in Jerusalem verschränken sich deutsche, israelische und südamerikanische Diskurse sowie faktuale und fiktionale Darstellungen in unterschiedlichen Medien. Der Band versammelt transnationale und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf den Fall Eichmann.
The Eichmann trial had a dramatic effect on legal history and the discussion of the Shoa and Nazi perpetration. In the history, reception, and memory of the 1961 trial in Jerusalem, German, Israeli, and South American discourses as well as factual and fictional representations in different media intertwine. This volume brings together for the first time transnational and transmedial perspectives on the Eichmann case.
Eichmann; Adolf; Shoah; Nazi crimes; collective memory
Christian Ernst, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasilien; Patrick Eser, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentinien.
David Vogel, Ada Nadler-Vogel
Dan Laor, Raquel Stepak, Almut Laufer (Hrsg./Eds.)
Der Briefwechsel zwischen David Vogel und Ada Nadler-Vogel
Der Schriftsteller David Vogel (1891–1944) und seine (spätere) Frau Ada Nadler (1900–1946) wechselten im Laufe ihres Lebens zahlreiche Briefe, von denen ca. 220 erhalten und in diesem Band versammelt sind. Sie stammen aus den Tagen ihrer ersten Bekanntschaft, von Reisen, von Adas langjährigem Aufenthalt in Lungensanatorien und aus den französischen Internierungslagern, in denen David Vogel 1939/40 als „feindlicher Ausländer“ gefangen war.
hebräische Literatur; Briefwechsel; Paris, Frankreich
Author David Vogel (1891–1944) and his (second) wife Ada Nadler (1900–1946) exchanged numerous letters over the course of their lives. Around 220 surviving letters have been compiled in this volume, stemming from the days of their first acquaintance, from their travels, from the years Ada spent in lung sanatoriums, and from the French internment camps that David Vogel was imprisoned in as an “enemy alien” in 1939/40.
Hebrew literature; correspondence; Paris; France
Dan Laor, Raquel Stepak, Tel Aviv, Israel; Almut Laufer, Jerusalem, Israel.
Jan Kühne (Hrsg./Ed.)
Sammy Gronemann Kritische Gesamtausgabe
[Critical Complete Edition]
In Zusammenarb. mit/In collab. with Jakob Hessing, Hanni Mittelmann, Joachim Schlör
Jan Kühne (Hrsg./Ed.)
Band 7: Briefwechsel
[Volume 7: Correspondence]
In Zusammenarb. mit/In collab. with Joachim Schlör, Jakob Hessing
Sammy Gronemann (1875–1952) ist einer der herausragendsten zionistischen Schriftsteller der deutschen Sprache. In diesem Band wird erstmals die Korrespondenz Gronemanns und dadurch sein weitreichendes Beziehungsnetzwerk erschlossen. Unter den Korrespondenzpartnern befinden sich bedeutende Politiker, Schriftsteller und Künstler, darunter Zeitgenossen wie Theodor Herzl, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Albert Einstein und Theodor Heuss.
Sammy Gronemann (1875–1952) is considered one of the foremost Zionist writers of German. This volume is the first to explore Gronemann’s correspondence and, through it, his far-reaching network of relationships. His correspondents included important politicians, writers, and artists, such as contemporaries Theodor Herzl, Richard Beer-Hofmann, Albert Einstein, and Theodor Heuss. German-Jewish literature; German Judaism; Zionism
Jan Kühne, Hebräische Universität, Jerusalem, Israel.
Fabian Sader
Deutschsprachige jüdische Gegenwartsliteratur und die Postmoderne
Zu kritischen Inszenierungen poststrukturalistischer Perspektiven im Erinnerungsdiskurs der Shoah
[Contemporary German-language Jewish Literature and Postmodernism]
Diese Studie fügt den im deutschen Erinnerungsdiskurs andauernden Debatten um das Repräsentationsverhältnis von Shoah und kolonialer Gewaltgeschichte einen neuen Blickwinkel hinzu. Sie zeigt auf, wie in Teilen der deutschsprachigen jüdischen Literatur der letzten Jahrzehnte bereits jene grundsätzlichen philosophischen Probleme in Szene gesetzt werden, auf welchen die heutige Erinnerungskrise zu einem wesentlichen Teil gründet.
This study adds a new perspective to ongoing debates in German memory discourse about the relationship between representations of the Shoah and of the history of colonial violence, showing how some Jewish literature written in German in recent decades has already been showcasing some of the fundamental philosophical issues underpinning the foundations of today’s memory crisis. German-language Jewish literature; contemporary literature; postmodernism; remembrance
Series: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts 30
September 2025
English, Approx. V, 295 pp., 5 fig.
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Kafka’s Jewish background, interests, and readings, and their relevance for his writings, are still largely viewed as marginal within the vast domain of Kafka scholarship. By taking into account new findings, theoretical approaches, and historical developments, the essays in this volume reconsider and extend our knowledge of Kafka’s relationship to Judaism and Jewish thought.
Kafka; Judaism; German-Jewish; Zionism
Mark H. Gelber, Ben Gurion University, Israel.
Liliana Ruth Feierstein, Linda Maeding, Andrea Acle-Kreysing (Hrsg./Eds.)
Krisenhaftes
Europa, Utopie Lateinamerika
Positionen jüdischen Schreibens zwischen „Alter“ und „Neuer“ welt [Europe in Crisis, Latin America as Utopia: Jewish Writing Perspectives between the “Old” and “New” Worlds] Mai/May 2026
Dieser Band mit Beiträgen aus den Geschichts-, Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaften thematisiert extra-territoriale Positionen jüdischen Denkens zwischen „Alter“ und „Neuer“ Welt mit einem Schwerpunkt auf dem Exil der 1930er und 1940er Jahre, aber auch historische Genealogien utopischer Amerika-Narrative. Als roter Faden fungiert die Frage nach der Bedeutung von „Lateinamerika“ im utopischen Schreiben und Handeln im Kontext jüdischer Traditionen. Utopie; Lateinamerika; Jüdische Geschichte; Transkulturalität
The close relationship between Latin America and the idea of utopia has been largely overlooked by the German-speaking world so far. The chapters from the fields of history, cultural studies, and literary studies in this volume reveal the significance ascribed to Jewish actors from Europe in particular (exiles, emigrants, and travelers) in this nexus. It traces their mediations between the “Old World” and the utopian vision of a “New World.”
Utopia; Latin America; Jewish history; transculturality
L.R. Feierstein, HU Berlin; L. Maeding, Universität Complutense Madrid; A. Acle-Kreysing, Karlsruhe Institut für Technologie.
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Die erste umfassende Monographie zum literarischen Werk der Philosophin Sarah Kofman (1934–1994) deutet die Verfahren der Autorin als Widerspruch zum Geschichtsrevisionis-mus in Frankreich. Die Hinwendung Sarah Kofmans zum Literarischen wird auch als Reak-tion der Überlebenden auf die Leugnung der Kollaboration und die Verdrängung der Mit-verantwortung Frankreichs an der Deportation und Ermordung der europäischen Jüdinnen und Juden erkennbar. Schoa; Vichy-Regime; Frankreich; Geschichtsrevisionismus; Erinnerungskultur
The first comprehensive monograph on the literary works of philosopher Sarah Kofman (1934–94) interprets the techniques used by the author as contradicting French historical revisionism. Sarah Kofman’s turn to literature proves to be a survivors’ response to the denial of collaboration and the suppression of France’s co-responsibility for the deportation and murder of the European Jews. Literature and history; revisionism; Shoah; Vichy regime
Esra Akkaya, Universität Duisburg-Essen.
Philipp Striedl
Modern Hebrew in Israel
Representations of Linguistic Variation and Standard
Funded by LMU München, Universität Zürich
Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] 57
April 2025
English, XIX, 298 pp., 32 fig.
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Scholars have been asserting that there are no dialects in Modern Hebrew, which makes Israel an interesting case for variationist linguistic theorising. This pioneering book investigates categories Hebrew speakers use for their classification of linguistic variation. Relying on interviews and experimental data, the categories are analyzed from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives.
Cognitive Sociolinguistics; Modern Hebrew; Linguistic Variation; Grounded Theory; Israel
Philipp Striedl, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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Hannes Bezzel, Karen Covello-Paran, Joachim J. Krause, Omer Sergi (Eds.)
Palace-Clan Relations
in the Bronze and Iron Ages Levant
Material and Textual Approaches
In collab. with Johannes Seidel
Series: Archaeology of the Biblical worlds 6
July 2025
English, Approx. 210 pp., 55 fig.
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The book presents studies on the social and political structure, interaction, and formation of different Levantine polities in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Based on archaeological as well as on literary sources, the contributions focus on kinship relations as a longue durée phenomenon of Ancient Middle Eastern societies and the fragmented nature of Bronze and Iron Ages polities in the Levant.
Iron Age; Levant; Political anthropology; Social archaeology
H. Bezzel, Univ. of Jena; K. Covello-Paran, Israel Antiquities Authority; J. J. Krause, Ruhr Univ. Bochum; O. Sergi, Tel Aviv Univ.
Kyle Henry Keimer, Chris McKinny, Aharon Tavger (Eds.)
New Studies in the Historical Geography of the Ancient Near East
Series: Archaeology of the Biblical worlds 8
December 2025
English, Approx. 220 pp., 55 fig.
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This volume includes historical, geographical studies that cover the history of the field, the historical geography of Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age Egypt and Canaan, the role of geography in dating biblical texts, and historical geography of the Hebrew Bible, the Second Temple Period, and the New Testament. The volume illustrates how historical geographic studies combine archaeological discoveries with developments in textual analysis.
Kyle H. Keimer, Macquarie University; Chris McKinny, Jerusalem University; Aharon Tavger, Ariel University.
Marcela Menachem Zoufalá, Olaf Glöckner (Eds.)
United in Diversity
Contemporary European Jewry in an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Series: Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge 62
June 2025
English, VII, 242 pp.
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What are the future perspectives for Jews and Jewish networks in contemporary Europe? Is there a new quality of relations between Jews and non-Jews? To what degree do European Jews feel as integrated minorities, despite the Holocaust and new anti-Semitism? An interdisciplinary team of historians, cultural anthropologists, sociologists, and literary scientists answers these questions for Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Germany.
Contemporary Jewry; Jewish Life in Europe; Christian-Jewish Relations; anti-Semitism; European-Jewish Diaspora
Marcela Menachem Zoufalá, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; Olaf Glöckner, MMZ Potsdam, Germany.
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Stella Maria Frei Healing Holocaust Survivors
Politics of Psychological Rehabilitation in Postwar Europe
Series: Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge 70
June 2025
English, Approx. 360 pp.
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The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) and the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) hired prolific mental health professionals to provide Displaced Persons in postwar Europe with psychological assistance. The knowledge they applied, and the extent to which this work served to realize the administrative and political objectives of the two organizations in Europe between 1944 and 1948 is explored in this book.
Refugee studies; postwar reconstruction; foundation of United Nations; history of multilateral organizations; history of childhood; International Relations
Stella Maria Frei, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany.
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Jan Wilkens Queer Jewish Groups in Europe (1972–1990s)
Archiving Their Histories and Network
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Series: Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge 73
March 2025
English, X, 366 pp.
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In February 1972, the world’s first group of and for queer Jews convened in London for their first public symposium. Their aim was to tackle the exlusion of non-heteronormative Jews in Jewish and queer communities. A few years later, two similar groups were founded in Paris and Amsterdam for socializing and political activism among queer Jews there. This study comprises the groups’ early histories and their networking in Europe.
Religion; Homosexuality; History; Emancipation
Jan Wilkens, Potsdam University, Germany.
Marija Vulesica
From Zagreb to Palestine
yugoslav Zionist Networks of Help for European Jews, 1933-1941
[Through Zagreb to Palestine? The Refugee Aid Provided by Local Zionist Committees in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1933 to 1941.]
Im Frühjahr 1933 initiierten jugoslawische Zionisten Hilfsaktionen für jüdische Flüchtlinge aus Deutschland. Bis 1941 gelang es ihren Netzwerken, Tausende Flüchtlinge aufzunehmen, zu ver-sorgen und nach Palästina oder Übersee zu expedieren. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die Handlungsspielräume jüdischer Akteure im Königreich Jugoslawien, schaut auf Erfahrungen der Flüchtlinge und dekonstruiert zugleich alte Forschungsnarrative.
In the spring of 1933, Yugoslav Zionists initiated aid programmes for Jewish refugees from Germany. By 1941, their networks of help had succeeded in taking in thousands of refugees, providing for them and sending many of them to Palestine or overseas. This study examines the room for manoeuvre Jewish actors in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia had, looks at the experiences of the refugees, and at the same time deconstructs old research narratives.
Kingdom of Croatia; Jewish refugees; Zionism; local organizations
Marija Vulesica, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin.
Magdalena Waligorska-Huhle, Marta Duch-Dyngosz, Alexander Friedman Ina Sorkina, Yechiel Weizman
The History of the Shtetl after 1945
Series: Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge 79
December 2025
English, Approx. 250 pp., 38 fig.
HC *RRP € 79.95 / US$ 87.99 / £ 73.00
ISBN 978-3-11-167553-4
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The History of the Shtetl after 1945 is the first book-length social history of the aftermath of the Holocaust in the Eastern European countryside and of the mass-scale repopulation, domestication and adaptation of vacated Jewish spaces. It addresses a blind spot in the scholarship on the aftereccetcs of the Holocaust, picking up the history of Eastern Europe’s Jewish towns where others declared their irreversible end.
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Im Jahr 1476 erschütterte ein Ritualmordvorwurf die jüdische Gemeinde Regensburg. Die Studie untersucht die folgenden Ereignisse im Kontext jüdisch-christlicher Beziehungen. Aus vielfältigen Quellen enthüllt sie Vorurteile der Ankläger, sowie Verteidigungsstrategien der Angeklagten. Sie bietet einen fesselnden Einblick in die Regensburger Vergangenheit und ein Plädoyer für die Integration jüdischer Perspektiven in die mittelalterliche Geschichte.
Regensburg; Ritualmordlegende; Jüdischchristliche Beziehungen; Mittelalter; 15. Jahrhundert
In 1476, an accusation of ritual murder shook Regensburg’s Jewish community. This study examines the events that transpired within the context of Jewish-Christian relations, investigating a range of sources to uncover the prejudices of the accusers as well as the defense strategies employed by the accused. It provides fascinating insights into Regensburg’s past and calls for Jewish perspectives to be integrated into medieval history. Jewish history; middle ages; Regensburg; JewishChristian relations; blood libel
The Destruction of Jerusalem in Nineteenth-Century German Culture
July 2025
English, German, 870 pp., 37 fig.
HC *RRP € 129.95 / US$ 142.99 / £ 118.50
ISBN 978-3-11-154008-5
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-166295-4
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Exploring a wealth of intermedial sources, this book examines in a comparative approach the cultural productivity in nineteenth-century Germany of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple by the Romans. The historical occurrence emerged as a major factor in negotiations of both German and Jewish identities vis-à-vis such decisive socio-cultural and political developments as the Kulturkampf and the rise of nationalism and antisemitism.
Antisemitism; 19th century; Jerusalem; identity Axel Stähler, University of Bern, Switzerland.
Michael Brenner, Karin Eben, Kristina Milz, Bernd Päffgen (Hrsg./Eds.) Spuren jüdischen Lebens in Bayern
Erforschung und Präsentation des kulturellen Erbes
[From the History Book to the Museum: Researching and Presenting Bavarian Judaism]
Reihe/Series: Studien zur Jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur in Bayern 16
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-162005-3 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-162019-0
Wie wird im Freistaat Bayern die lange und vielgestaltige Geschichte jüdischen Lebens erforscht und präsentiert? Der Band ermöglicht einen Überblick über aktuelle Projekte und Entwicklungen: Wo stehen Archäologie, Geschichtswissenschaft, Gedenkstättenarbeit und die museale Darstellung nach dem Festjahr 2021, das an 1700 Jahre jüdischen Lebens in Deutschland erinnerte?
Judentum; Bayern; Präsentation von Geschichte
How is the long, multifaceted history of Jewish life being researched and presented in the Free State of Bavaria? This volume provides an overview of current projects and developments. Where do archaeology, history, memorial work, and museum displays stand after the 2021 anniversary marking 1700 years of Jewish life in Germany?
Judaism; Bavaria; presenting history
Michael Brenner, LMU; Karin Eben, BAdW; Kristina Milz, IfZ; Bernd Pfäffgen, LMU, München.
Open Access
Christian Wiese, Stefan Vogt, Doron Kiesel, Gury Schneider-Ludorff (Hrsg./Eds.)
Zerbrechliche Nachbarschaft
Gedenkbuch der Synagogen und jüdischen Gemeinden in Hessen
Das mehrbändige Synagogen-Gedenkbuch Hessen „Zerbrechliche Nachbarschaft“ erforscht und dokumentiert erstmals umfassend die Geschichte der jüdischen Gemeinden und ihrer Synagogen auf dem Gebiet des heutigen Bundeslandes Hessen. Der erste Band umfasst in zwei Teilbänden die Synagogen und Gemeinden im südlichen Teil des Regierungsbezirks Darmstadt. Teilband 1 bietet darüber hinaus einleitende Aufsätze zur jüdischen Geschichte Hessens.
The multi-volume Synagogue Memorial Book of Hesse, "Fragile Neighborhood," comprehensively researches and documents for the first time the history of Jewish communities and their synagogues in the territory of today's federal state of Hesse. The first volume, in two parts, covers the synagogues and communities in the southern part of the Darmstadt administrative district.
Darmstadt; Hesse; Jewish history; Synagogues Christian Wiese und Stefan Vogt, Universität Frankfurt; Doron Kiesel, Berlin/ Frankfurt; Gury Schneider, Hochschule Neuendettelsau.
Michael W. Schönemann
Januar 1933: Das jüdische Leipzig, eine Rekonstruktion
Neue Perspektiven basierend auf dem »Leipziger Jüdischen Jahr- und Adressbuch für 1933«
[January 1933: Jewish Leipzig, A Reconstruction; New Perspectives Based on the “Leipzig Jewish Almanac and Address Book”]
Vorw. v./Forew. by Frank Mecklenburg Oktober/October 2025
Kurz vor der nationalsozialistischen Katastrophe benannte das Leipziger Jüdisches Jahrund Adressbuch für 1933 die Mitglieder der Religionsgemeinde: Haushaltsvorstände, deren Berufe und Wohnadressen. Alle anderen blieben unerwähnt. Wer waren sie und was bestimmte ihren Alltag? Woher und wann kamen sie in die Stadt? Diesen Fragen geht das vorliegende Buch nach. Erstmals wurden dafür zahlreiche Quellen und Zeitdokumente systematisch ausgewertet.
NS-Verfolgung; Juden; Soziodemographie
Shortly before the National Socialist catastrophe, the 1933 Leipzig Jewish Almanac and Address Book named the members of the religious community: heads of household, their professions, and addresses. Everybody else went unmentioned. Who were they, and what did their lives look like? Where did they come from? And when did they come to Leipzig? This book addresses such questions, systematically analyzing many sources for the first time.
Nazi persecution; Jews; sociodemographics
Michael W. Schönemann, Leipzig.
Seth Jacobson
Scandinavian Jewry 1911–1955
In the Footsteps of Rabbi A.I. Jacobson Through Turbulent Times
November 2025
English, 350 pp., 100 fig.
HC *RRP € 99.95 / US$ 109.99 / £ 91.00
ISBN 978-3-11-162484-6
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Abraham Israel Jacobson’s biography (1888–1955) spans a transformative period in Jewish history, from Ottoman Palestine to post-Holocaust Europe. Jacobson advanced from Yeshiva studies in Palestine to rabbinic leadership in Scandinavia. The biography draws on his 12,000-item private archive documenting Jewish life in Sweden. It unveils vibrant Orthodox life in 1940s Stockholm and the challenge of maintaining Judaism in modern Scandinavia.
Darren O’Byrne, Christopher Young (Eds.) Willy Meisl, “King of
the Sports Journalists”
A Jewish Career in Times of Change –a Critical Edition of his writings
February 2025
English, German, LXXIII, 223 pp.
HC *RRP € 77.95 / US$ 89.99 / £ 71.00
ISBN 978-3-11-076523-6
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-076615-8
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Willy Meisl was an Austrian-Jewish journalist who revolutionised how sport was written and thought about in interwar Europe. But after the Nazis’ rise to power, he also began writing about politics and Jewish identity. This volume brings together some of his most searing writings on these themes, reintroducing readers to one of twentieth century’s foremost chroniclers of change, and a now largely forgotten pioneer of journalism between the wars.
Sports; Journalism; Nazism; Jewish History
Darren M. O’Byrne and Christopher Young, Cambridge University, England.
Christian Wiese, Stefan Vogt, Doron Kiesel, Gury Schneider-Ludorff (Hrsg./Eds.)
Kontexte zur jüdischen Geschichte Hessens
Schriften aus dem Projekt SynagogenGedenkbuch Hessen
Christian Wiese, Stefan Vogt, Doron Kiesel, Gury Schneider-Ludorff (Hrsg./Eds.)
Der Band widmet sich den vielfältigen Formen direkter Interaktion zwischen Jüdinnen/ Juden einerseits, Christinnen/Christen bzw. Nichtjüdinnen/Nichtjuden andererseits vom Mittelalter bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Er fragt danach, wie das Zusammenleben konkret ausgesehen hat, wie Fremdheit und Nähe hergestellt und erlebt wurde, wo und wie Grenzen errichtet worden sind und unter welchen Bedingungen diese Grenzen überschritten werden konnten.
Antisemitismus; Juden; Jüdisch-nichtjüdische Beziehungen; Mittelalter bis 20. Jahrhundert
This volume addresses diverse forms of direct interaction between Jews on the one hand and Christians and non-Jews on the other from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. It investigates what exactly life together looked like, how otherness and proximity were produced and experienced, where and how borders were erected, and the conditions in which those borders could be crossed.
Jews; Jewish-Christian relations; antisemitism; Middle Ages until 20th century
Ch. Wiese, St. Vogt, Uni Frankfurt/M.; D. Kiesel, Zentralrat d. Juden i. Deutschld.; G. Schneider-Ludorff, Augustana-Hochsch.
Johannes Praetorius-Rhein, Lea Wohl von Haselberg (Hrsg./Eds.)
Jüdische Positionen und deutsche Filmgeschichte
Akteure, Perspektiven und Voraussetzungen
[Jewish Positions and German Film History]
Reihe/Series: Jüdische Film-Studien / Jewish Film Studies 1
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-146985-0 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-147094-8
In der westdeutschen Filmgeschichte wurden jüdische Akteur*innen oft als Einzelfälle wahrgenommen. Die Autor*innen des Bandes diskutieren an ausgewählten Beispielen, worin sich ihre Biografien, Karrieren und Werke dennoch ähneln und inwiefern sie zusammenhängen. Dabei wird jüdische Filmgeschichte auf doppelte Weise zum Thema: Durch den Blick auf Filme und Filmschaffende wie auch durch die Frage nach den Voraussetzungen ihrer Geschichtsschreibung.
Regisseure, jüdische; Filmgeschichtsschreibung; Westdeutschland; Jüdische Geschichte nach 1945
In West German film history, Jewish actors were often perceived as isolated cases. Using selected examples, the authors of this volume discuss the similarities between their biographies, careers, and works and the extent to which they are connected. Jewish film history is addressed in two ways: by examining films and filmmakers, as well as by examining the preconditions for their historiography. Jewish directors; film historiography; West Germany; Jewish history after 1945
Johannes Praetorius-Rhein und Lea Wohl von Haselberg, Filmuniversität Babelsberg, Potsdam.
Sarah M. Ross, Tom Kellner (Eds.) Jewish Heritage in Light
of Critical Heritage Studies
Interdisciplinary Approaches and Positions
Series: Jüdische Gegenwart / Contemporary
Jewish Life 1
March 2026
English, Approx. 300 pp., 15 fig.
HC *RRP € 59.95 / US$ 65.99 / £ 54.50
ISBN 978-3-11-143836-8
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-146080-2
ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-146257-8
Drawing on the approaches of Critical Heritage Studies, this anthology discusses how various manifestations of Jewish cultural heritage are constructed, constantly selected, recreated and renegotiated as a social, cultural and religious practice in the present. The focus is on contemporary relationships between people, cultural heritage and power, particularly looking into the position of the legitimate speaker.
Jewish Cultural Heritage; Critical Heritage Studies; Contemporary Jewish Studies
Sarah M. Ross, HMTM Hannover, Germany.
Sarah M. Ross, Dani Kranz (Eds.)
The Politics of German Academia and Jewish Heritage Studies
Knowledge Architectures and the Contours of Power
Series: Jüdische Gegenwart / Contemporary Jewish Life 3
May 2026
English, Approx. 250 pp., 15 fig.
HC *RRP € 79.95 / US$ 87.99 / £ 73.00
ISBN 978-3-11-156213-1
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-156266-7
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The book deals with Jewish heritage as a form of knowledge, and with academic and non-academic structures and architectures within which such knowledge is produced, negotiated and passed on. In individual contributions, the authors discuss and reflect on what can be understood by ‘Jewish heritage knowledge’ and the extent to which the metaphor of ‘knowledge architecture’ can contribute to a better understanding in the study of Jewish heritage.
Heritage Studies; Jewish Heritage; Cultural Heritage; Sociology of Knowledge; Contemporary Jewish Life
Sarah M. Ross, HMTM Hannover, Germany, and Dani Kranz, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
Das Thema Partizipation prägt neben Transparenz, Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung die Arbeit von Kultur- und Gedächtniseinrichtungen in besonderer Weise. Partizipation ist Museen und Gedenkstätten vertraut, da sie ihre Gründung nicht selten besonderem bürgerlichem Engagement verdanken. Im Zentrum des Bandes stehen Sammlungsstrategien historischer und jüdischer Museen und Einrichtungen, die öffentliche Partizipation stark integrieren.
Sammlung; Museum; Bürgerbeteiligung; Judaistik
Alongside transparency, sustainability, and digitalization, the issue of participation is uniquely influencing the work done by institutions of culture and memory. Museums and memorials are familiar with participation, as they are often founded as the result of citizens’ special engagement. This volume focuses on the collection strategies employed by historical and Jewish museums, and institutions that heavily integrate public participation.
Der Band erforscht, wie deutschsprachige Postmemory-Narrative zur Erneuerung des nationalen Erinnerungsdiskurses beitragen. Dazu werden Werke der Nachwendezeit untersucht, die sich im Grenzbereich zwischen Dokument und Fiktion bewegen. In ihrer Mischung aus (auto-)biographischer Spurensuche, archäologischer Ausgrabung und detektivischer Ermittlung sind diese Arbeiten zugleich Medium und Spiegel einer Pluralisierung des Erinnerns.
This volume investigates how Germanlanguage postmemory narratives are helping to renew national memory discourse. It examines works produced since 1989 that are located on the threshold between document and fiction. By searching for (auto-)biographical traces, and carrying out archaeological excavation and detective investigation, these works are both a medium and reflection of the pluralization of remembering.
Christine Meyer, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens; Anna Gvelesiani, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris.
Maja Hultman, Joachim Schlör (Eds.)
Virtual and Real-Life Spaces of Jewish Europe in the 21st Century
Funded by University of Gothenburg, Sven och Dagmar Saléns stiftelse
October 2025
English, 260 pp., 10 fig.
HC *RRP € 79.95 / US$ 87.99 / £ 73.00
ISBN 978-3-11-124621-5
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-126813-2
ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-126891-0
Taking the concept of “virtuality” as a starting point, this collective volume offers a fresh debate on the role of heritage, digital practices, and contemporary culture in shaping today’s Jewish spaces. The in-depth engagement with the characteristics of virtuality prompts questions about how to define an “authentic” and “real” Jewish space, and thus helps us to understand the Jewish experience of and place in today’s Europe.
Space; virtuality; Europe; Jewry; 21st century
Maja Hultman, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; Joachim Schlör, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
Jacques
Picard
Triumph and Trauma of Images
A Journey into Art History, Iconoclasm, Cult Controversy and Remembrance
Culture
March 2025
English, 428 pp., 110 fig.
HC *RRP € 54.00 / US$ 59.99 / £ 47.00
ISBN 978-3-422-80291-9
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To be tainted by the stigma of cult or idolatry or to make works of art possible through the incarnation of ideas and the transcendent – this tension continues to this day in the dispute over the power of images. Images create the horror and the sacred – banish both at the same time. The book looks at ancient and Jewish sites as well as Christian and bourgeois pictorial sources and draws a line to the present day.
Image theory; iconoclastic controversy; prohibition of images; Judaism
Jacques Picard, professor emeritus of General and Jewish History and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Basel.
Open Access
Moritz Lampe (Ed.)
OPhotographic Practices and the Making of Religion
December 2025
English, German, 296 pp., 152 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 82.00 / US$ 90.99 / £ 75.00
ISBN 978-3-11-120836-7
eBook
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-120893-0
This publication examines photography’s transformative role in religion from the 19th century to the present day. Through case studies and theoretical insights, it explores how photographs document, shape, and challenge religious practices. Topics include print retouching, image authentication, devotional uses, offering fresh perspectives on photography’s intersections with art history, religion and material culture.
Art; photography; history of photography; modern art; religion; spirituality; cultural practices; colonialism; ethnology; anthropology; materiality; rite; Jewish tradition; sacred image
Moritz Lampe, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Moti Gigi
Relations between Development Towns and Kibbutzim
Sderot and Sha’ar Hanegev
November 2025
English, 210 pp., 5 fig.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / US$ 131.99 / £ 109.50
ISBN 978-3-11-914726-2
eBook *RRP € 119.95 / US$ 131.99 / £ 109.50
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-220685-0
ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-220709-3
This book explores the intra-Jewish conflict in Israel through the relationship between Sderot and the Sha’ar HaNegev kibbutzim from 1950 to 2024. It examines power imbalances between Ashkenazi kibbutz residents and Mizrahi Sderot inhabitants, early economic dominance, and later cultural initiatives aimed at bridging divides. The study also analyzes class, identity, and space, highlighting its relevance in light of the October 7, 2023, attacks.
Development Town; Kibbutz; Center-periphery relations; Israel
The Emergence of a Mizrachi Middle Class in Israel
The Struggle of Mizrachi Jews for Mobility, Status, and Prestige
March 2025
English, VI, 203 pp.
HC *RRP € 129.95 / US$ 141.99 / £ 117.50
ISBN 978-3-11-142104-9
eBook *RRP € 129.95 / US$ 141.99 / £ 117.50
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-142195-7
ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-142243-5
The Emergence of a Mizrachi Middle Class in Israel examines a major issue in the sociology of Israel: the story of the Mizrachim, a group that has been, and is still, engaged in class-mobility efforts, and is ostensibly closing the gap between itself and the Ashkenazim. This is one of the most important social processes to have emerged in Israel in recent decades; it is changing the face of the Israeli middle class.
Middle class; class struggle; access to higher education; class culture
Uri Cohen, Tel Aviv University; Nissim Leon, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Meir Margalit
Forgotten, Suppressed, Denied – the Forging of Israel’s National Memory
November 2025
English, 350 pp.
HC *RRP € 119.95 / US$ 131.99 / £ 109.50
ISBN 978-3-11-914640-1
eBook *RRP € 119.95 / US$ 131.99 / £ 109.50
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-221232-5
ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-221265-3
In the annals of Israeli history, innumerable heroic achievements have been recorded, but a total silence surrounds the veils of oblivion that conceal certain parts of it. From the forgotten episodes or those that have been rewritten, we can learn something we did not know about the fears, apprehensions, and demons that bedevil the history of our time. This study seeks to decipher the ‘passive memory’ in history and demands to be accounted for.
History of Israel; National memory; oblivion Meir Margalit, Ono Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel.
Danny B. Admasu Blackness in Israel – the Case Study
of Ethiopian Jews
A Historical Discourse on Jewishness, whiteness, and Blackness in Modern Zionism
Series: The Vidal Sassoon Studies in Antisemitism, Racism, and Prejudice 6
December 2025
English, 390 pp., 15 fig.
HC *RRP € 89.95 / US$ 98.99 / £ 82.00
ISBN 978-3-11-150724-8
eBook *RRP € 89.95 / US$ 98.99 / £ 82.00
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-150800-9
ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-150846-7
How did Israeli and Western Jews react to Ethiopian immigrants in Israel who are referred to as “Black Jews”? The book addresses the question of what occurs when Jews choose whiteness and Black individuals choose Blackness by examining the case of Ethiopian Jews and their immigration to Israel from the mid-19th century to today. This analysis by an Ethiopian Jewish scholar provides a fresh perspective on “Black” Jewish diaspora experiences.
Ethiopia; jewry; Blackness; diaspora
Danny B. Admasu, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
German Federal Archives, Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ), the Modern History Research Group at the University of Freiburg (Eds.)
The Persecution and Murder of the European Jews by Nazi Germany, 1933–1945
In collab. with Yad Vashem
Susanne Heim (Ed.)
Volume 6: German Reich and Protectorate October 1941–March 1943
In collab. with Maria Wilke Editor Caroline Pearce July 2025
English, Approx. 900 pp.
HC *RRP € 59.95 / US$ 69.95 / £ 54.50
ISBN 978-3-11-068738-5
eBook *RRP € 59.95 / US$ 68.99 / £ 54.50
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-068778-1
ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-068793-4
The period from October 1941 to March 1943 marked the core phase of the murder of the Jews in all of German-ruled Europe. The volume documents the systematic deportations, the erection of the Theresienstadt ghetto and the radicalization of the extermination policy after the Wannsee Conference. Neither military defeats on the Eastern front nor the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich could stop the program of murder. Holocaust; persecution of the jews; Jewish history; German Reich
Susanne Heim and Caroline Pearce, Institute of Contemporary History, Munich – Berlin.
Jerzy G. Gliksman, Alfred Gall Björn Kooger (Hrsg./Ed.)
„Tell the West“
–Berichte dem Westen!
Erfahrungsbericht eines polnischen Juden aus dem Gulag Januar/January 2026
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-172970-1 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-173018-9
Der Erfahrungsbericht des jüdisch-polnischen Gewerkschaftsanwalts Jerzy Gliksman aus dem Gulag der Jahre 1939–1941 stellt eines der bedeutendsten jüdischen Zeugnisse aus dem sowjetischen Lagersystem dar. Das Dokument über den sowjetischen Terror erscheint zum ersten Mal auf Deutsch und wird von zwei einführenden Texten neu kontextualisiert. 1949 trat Gliksman als Zeuge vor der UNO auf und wurde als Experte für die UdSSR Professor in Harvard.
Allgemeiner jüdischer Arbeiterbund in Russland und Polen; Gefangenenliteratur; Gulag
The gulag report by Jewish Polish union lawyer Jerzy Gliksman covering the years 1939–1941 is one of the most significant pieces of Jewish testimony from the Soviet labor camp system. This document of Soviet terror is now being published for the first time in German, accompanied by two introductory texts providing context. In 1949, Glicksman testified at the UN and became a professor at Harvard as an expert on the USSR. Gulag; Prisoners’ writings; Allgemeiner jüdischer Arbeiterbund in Russland und Polen
Björn Kooger, Braunschweig; Alfred Gall, Polonicum, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz.
Leonie Breunung, Manfred Walther Die Emigration deutschsprachiger
Rechtswissenschaftler ab 1933
Ein bio-bibliographisches Handbuch
[The Emigration of German-speaking Legal Scholars from 1933 onwards]
Leonie Breunung, Kay SchweigmannGreve, Manfred Walther Band 2: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
[Volume 2: Emigration to the United States of America]
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-158516-1 ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-158563-5
Der Band enthält ausführliche, aus den Quellen recherchierte Biographien von 23 Rechtswissenschaftlern und einer Rechtswissenschaftlerin, die in der NS-Zeit aus ihren Ämtern vertrieben wurden und, oft über mehrere Stationen, schließlich in den USA weiter/wieder wissenschaftlich tätig waren, sowie Übersichten über ihre Publikationen in den verschiedenen Zeiträumen ihrer Tätigkeit.
Rechtsgeschichte; Emigration; NS-Zeit; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika
This volume contains extensive source-based biographies of one female and twenty-three male law scholars who were driven from their posts during the Nazi period, often via several stations, ultimately arriving in the US, where they continued to work in academia. It includes overviews of their publications in the various periods of their work.
Legal history; emigration; Nazi period; United States of America
Leonie Breunung, Kay Schweigmann-Greve und Manfred Walther, Universität Hannover.
Mateusz Majman
Voices from the Caucasus
Holocaust Memory and the Identity of Mountain Jews
Series: De Gruyter Series in Holocaust Studies and Antisemitism
February 2026
English, German, 450 pp., 19 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 120.99 / £ 100.00
ISBN 978-3-11-154829-6
eBook *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 120.99 / £ 100.00
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-158376-1
ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-158460-7
The book aims to shed light on the wartime experience of the Mountain Jews as well as their memory and commemoration of the Shoah, which significantly differs from that of their European counterparts. It also attempts to fill the gap in Holocaust scholarship by examining how the memory of the Holocaust survived in a small group of Jews who formed a closed community and lived on the periphery of the Soviet Union.
Caucasus; memory studies; oral history
Mateusz Majman, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
Eva Janáčová (Ed.)
Holocaust
Monuments and Memorials in Central Europe
Series: De Gruyter Series in Holocaust Studies and Antisemitism
November 2025
English, 350 pp., 110 fig.
HC *RRP € 129.95 / US$ 141.99 / £ 117.50
ISBN 978-3-11-158002-9
eBook *RRP € 129.95 / US$ 141.99 / £ 117.50
PDF ISBN 978-3-11-158057-9
ePUB ISBN 978-3-11-158109-5
The book is focused on the topic of Holocaust monuments and memorials in Central Europe. The aim is to present the historical, political, social and art-historical circumstances of the creation of these often neglected material works, as well as the subsequent reception of Holocaust monuments and memorials.
Central Europe; Holocaust; memorials and monuments; memory
Eva Janáčová, Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia.
Moshe Barides
Unveiling the Dynamics Behind the Holocaust in Hungary
A New Perspective on Unfolding Events and Enduring Debates
Series: De Gruyter Series in Holocaust Studies and Antisemitism
August 2025
English, Approx. X, 250 pp., 30 fig.
HC *RRP € 109.95 / US$ 117.99 / £ 97.50
ISBN 978-3-11-162231-6
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The book offers fresh insights into the Holocaust in Hungary, marked by the collaboration between the Hungarian government and German occupiers, leading to the rapid murder of a significant portion of the Jews. It argues that Adolf Eichmann orchestrated this atrocity and explores how, enriching our understanding of the events and the roles of the Jewish Council, Hungarians, and bystanders, while raising awareness to prevent future genocides.
Adolf Eichmann; collaboration; Jewish Council; Hungary
Moshe Barides, Touro University, New York City, USA.
OOpen Access
Nicholas K. Johnson
Scripting Genocide
The wannsee Conference on Television, 1960–2022
Funded by University of Luxembourg
Series: Public History in European Perspectives 3
July 2025
English, Approx. 434 pp., 32 fig.
HC *RRP € 49.95 / US$ 54.99 / £ 45.50
ISBN 978-3-11-157860-6
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-157945-0
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Scripting Genocide traces the history of how and why the Wannsee Conference has repeatedly attracted the attention of American, British, and German screenwriters and filmmakers since 1960. This book investigates how the dramatic, fictionalized depictions of the Wannsee Conference offered filmmakers, and especially screenwriters, opportunities to be public historians.
Holocaust; Public History; Wannseekonferenz; Film
Nicholas K. Johnson, University of Münster, Germany.
OJohn J. Michalczyk
Julius
Streicher –
Tainted Images, Stolen Lives
The Anti-Semitic Tabloid ‘Der Stürmer’ and Children’s Readers
Preface by Michael Bryant Funded by Boston College
November 2025
English, 310 pp., 75 fig.
HC *RRP € 53.95 / US$ 59.99 / £ 49.50
ISBN 978-3-11-142247-3
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PDF ISBN 978-3-11-142261-9
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After Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, Julius Streicher was the most prolific and perverse manipulator of the masses. In this publication, John J. Michalczyk analyses how Streicher’s all-consuming hatred of Jews appeared throughout his 22-year publication of the crude and semi-pornographic tabloid Der Stürmer, as well as in 3 children’s readers.
Anhand einer Analyse der jiddischen Warschauer Tagespresse zeigt die Arbeit, wie polnische Juden trotz Zensur und Repressionen subversives Wissen über das nationalsozialistische Deutschland gewannen, vermittelten und auch Protest- und Solidaritätsaktionen zugunsten der dort Verfolgten initiierten.
Durch den Blick von Ost nach West werden die Akteure der Presselandschaft als handelnde Subjekte in ihrem Kampf gegen den Antisemitismus gezeigt.
By analyzing Warsaw’s Yiddish daily press, this volume reveals how Polish Jews gained and disseminated subversive knowledge of National Socialist Germany in spite of censorship and repression, and also initiated campaigns of protest and solidarity to the benefit of the people being persecuted there. Knowledge transfer; Holocaust; National Socialism; Yiddish press; Warsaw
Anne-Christin Klotz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Open Access
Jetzt als Broschur
Michal Govrin, Dana Freibach-Heifetz, Etty BenZaken, Raya Morag (Eds.)
But There Was Love
Shaping the Memory of the Shoah
Series: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts
28
April 2025
English, VIII, 371 pp., 77 fig.
HC *RRP € 99.95 / US$ 109.99 / £ 91.00
ISBN 978-3-11-158946-6
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But There Was Love—Shaping the Memory of the Shoah proposes a new paradigm for Shoah remembrance in today’s cultural and political reality. It derives from the four-year workings of a group of researchers and artists in Jerusalem led by Michal Govrin. The group positions the extraordinary Jewish and human struggle in facing dehumanization and extermination as the essence of the Shoah, challenging us with a profound ethical call. Shoah; Memory; Rememberance
M. Govrin, Tel Aviv Univ.; D. FreibachHeifetz, Hebrew Univ.; E. BenZaken, Haifa Univ.; R. Morag, Hebrew Univ.
Tim Ohnhäuser
Verfolgungssuizide im Nationalsozialismus
Selbsttötungen vor der Deportation und das Lebensende des Tetanus-Entdeckers
Arthur Nicolaier
[Persecution Suicides under National Socialism: Self-Inflicted Death in the Context of Deportation and Arthur Nicolaier’s (1862–1942) Final Months]
Die Verfolgungssuizide im Zeitraum der Deportationen konnten bei aller Verzweiflung auch positive Signaturen tragen. Sie werden hier als distinktes Phänomen beschrieben, das einen festen Platz in der Flucht- und Widerstandsforschung einnehmen sollte. Dazu werden am Einzelfall die letzten Lebensmonate des nach seinem Suizid weithin vergessenen Tetanus-Entdeckers Arthur Nicolaier rekonstruiert und Hilfsnetzwerke in seinem Umfeld beschrieben.
Even amid despair, there could be positive aspects to the persecution suicides of the deportation period. This volume describes them as a distinct phenomenon that should be firmly integrated into emigration and resistance research. It carefully examines the final months of Arthur Nicolaier – the physician who discovered tetanus and fell into relative obscurity after committing suicide – along with the support networks in his milieu. National Socialism; persecution; suicide; deportation
Tim Ohnhäuser, Institut für Medizinsoziologie, Versorgungsforschung und Rehabilitationswissenschaft, Köln.
Charlotte A. Lerg, Johan Östling, Jana Weiß, Victoria Van Orden Martínez, Christine Schmidt, Ewa Koźmińska-Frejlak (Eds.)
History of Intellectual Culture 4/2025
Gender, Archiving, and Knowledge
Production after the Holocaust. A Postwar Republic of Letters?
Funded by Thora Ohlssons stiftelse
Series: History of Intellectual Culture 4
December 2025
English, Approx. 250 pp., 10 fig.
Pb. *RRP € 44.95 / US$ 49.99 / £ 41.00
ISBN 978-3-11-163660-3
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The fourth issue of the yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) features a thematic section on the production of knowledge related to the Holocaust. The contributions focus on the circulation of knowledge via letters and other forms of written communication within and among survivor historical commissions after the Second World War with an emphasis on the interplay of gender and other differences.
History of knowledge; Holocaust; Postwar period (Second World War)
Charlotte A. Lerg, LMU Munich, Germany; Johan Östling, Lund University, Sweden; Jana Weiß, The University of Texas at Austin, USA.
Christine Schindler (Hrsg./Ed.) Jahrbuch des Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes
[Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance Yearbook 2025]
Im Auftrag von/On behalf of DÖW
Reihe/Series: Jahrbuch des Dokumentationsarchivs des österreichischen widerstandes 2025
Ziel des seit 1986 erscheinenden Jahrbuchs des DÖW ist es, die NS-Herrschaft nicht nur aus der Sicht der Zeitgeschichtsforschung, sondern auch in interdisziplinärer Herangehensweise zu beleuchten – sei es aus den Perspektiven verschiedener Wissenschaftsdisziplinen, der Bildung, der Gedenkkultur oder des künstlerischen Bereichs.
Nationalsozialismus; Rechtsextremismus
The goal of the DÖW Yearbook, which has been published since 1986, is to shed light on the Nazi regime not just from the standpoint of contemporary history but through an interdisciplinary lens – including perspectives from various academic disciplines, education, memorial culture, and the arts.
National Socialism; right-wing extremism
Christine Schindler, Projekt- und Publikationsmanagerin des DÖW.
O JO J
Manuela Consonni, Martina Weisz (Editors-in-Chief)
Analysis of Current Trends in Antisemitism – ACTA
Volume 43 (2024)
English, 1 issue per volume (Approx. 50 pp.)
ISSN 2568-9347
The ACTA papers focus on contemporary trends of antisemitism world-wide. The eJournal allows for a prompt publication of contributions that analyze current phenomena of antisemitic prejudice, occurrences, and mechanisms. It is a platform for innovative, cutting-edge research. Adopting a transdisciplinary approach, they scrutinize the singularities of anti-Jewish prejudice with relation to and in the context of other forms of discrimination.
Hans Otto Horch, Robert Jütte, Miriam Rürup, Werner Treß, Markus Wenninger (Hrsg./Eds.)
Aschkenas
Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden
Band/Volume 34 (2024)
Deutsch/German, 2 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume (Ca./Approx. 500 S./pp.)
Aschkenas – ursprünglich die hebräische Bezeichnung für Deutschland – versteht sich vor allem als Organ der seit den späten 70er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts verstärkt einsetzenden deutschsprachigen Forschung zur jüdischen Geschichte und Kultur des mittel- und westeuropäischen Judentums. Im Zentrum steht die Geschichte und Kultur des mittel- und westeuropäischen Judentums von der ausgehenden Antike bis zur Emanzipation und darüber hinaus
Aschkenas is a journal of Central and Eastern European Jewish history and culture. It primarily covers the period from the beginnings of Ashkenazi Judaism in late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages through the emancipation of the Jews in the 19th century. However, it also publishes contributions that extend beyond these temporal and geographical boundaries.
New at De Gruyter / Open Access
Andrea Petö (Editor-in-Chief) Eastern European Holocaust Studies
Interdisciplinary Journal of the ByHMC Volume 2 (2024)
English, 2 issues per volume
ISSN 2749-9030
Eastern European Holocaust Studies: Interdisciplinary Journal of the BYHMC is a peer-reviewed bi-annual scholarly journal with a focus on the history of the Holocaust and the Second World War in Central and Eastern Europe. The aim of the journal is to provide a forum for researchers mainly from this geographical area who would like to publish original, multidisciplinary articles in the above-mentioned topics.
JJürgen van Oorschot, Jan Christian Gertz, Sebastian Grätz, Markus Saur (Hrsg./Eds.)
Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
Band/Volume 137 (2025)
Impact Factor: 0.3
5-year Impact Factor: 0.3
Deutsch/German, Englisch/English, Französisch/ French, 4 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume (Ca./ Approx. 640 S./pp.)
Seit über hundert Jahren ist die Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft das führende Fachorgan auf dem Gebiet der Erforschung des Alten Testaments und des Frühen Judentums. International und überkonfessionell bietet die ZAW jährlich vier Hefte und informiert in einer umfassenden Zeitschriften- und Bücherschau über die Neuerscheinungen in ihrem Fachgebiet.
The ZAW has been the leading international and interconfessional periodical in the field of research in the Old Testament und Early Judaism for over one hundred years.
70% off for SBL members!
Jorunn Oekland, Katherine Marsengill, Christopher Ocker (Eds.)
The Journal of the Bible and Its Reception (JBR) promotes the study of the reception history of the Bible in terms of both methodology and content. Published twice annually, JBR aims to shed light on the broader horizon of the impact of the Bible in a wide variety of academic fields and cultural settings. Articles focus on the field of Reception History, delivering new research results as well as upto-date academic discourse.
YAlfred Bodenheimer, Vivian Liska (Eds.) Yearbook for European Jewish Literature Studies
Jahrbuch für europäisch-jüdische Literaturstudien
Volume 11 (2024)
English, German, 1 issue per volume (Approx. 300 pp.)
The Yearbook of the Association for European-Jewish Literature Studies constitutes an interdisciplinary forum for the research of Jewish writing in all its diversity and complexity. Each issue addresses a different thematic topic from a variety of perspectives. The yearbook underlines the transnational dimension of Jewish writing and stresses the relevance of literature for an exploration of Jewish existence in Europe.
Benjamin Pollock, Daniel Weidner, Christian Wiese (Hrsg./Eds.) Naharaim
Zeitschrift für deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Kulturgeschichte (Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History)
Band/Volume 18 (2024)
Managing Editor: Amit Levy
Impact Factor: 0.1
5-year Impact Factor: 0.1
Deutsch/German, Englisch/English, 2 Hefte pro Band/issues per volume (Ca./Approx. 280 S./pp.)
Gegründet vom Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Forschungszentrum Jerusalem widmet sich Naharaim der aktuellen Forschung zu philosophischen, literarischen und geschichtlichen Aspekten deutsch-jüdischer Kultur. Ausgehend von der jüdischen Geistesgeschichte knüpfen die Beiträge auch an außerjüdische Problemhorizonte und übergeordnete Theoriedebatten an.
Naharaim is a peer-reviewed journal of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. It is devoted to current research in philosophical, literary, and historical aspects of GermanJewish culture. The contributions are mainly in German or English.
Benutzeroberfläche/User Interface: Deutsch, Englisch/English, German
Die Datenbank bietet eine einzigartige Dokumentation des deutsch-jüdischen Erbes, die auf dem Archiv Bibliographia Judaica in Frankfurt/M. basiert. Gezielt durchsuchbar sind biographische Details von über 20.000 Persönlichkeiten, deren Bibliographien auf verknüpften Karteikarten recherchiert werden können. Unter den erfassten Personen finden sich u.a. Schriftsteller/-innen, Politiker/innen, Rabbiner/-innen sowie diverse Wissenschaftler/-innen.
Deutsch-jüdische Literatur und Geschichte; Bürgertum; Emanzipation; Weimarer Republik; Holocaust
This unique database assembles a large number of important documents on the GermanJewish tradition from the Bibliographia Judaica Archive in Frankfurt am Main. It allows targeted searches of biographical details of over 20,000 individuals with links to scanned index cards containing related bibliographical data. The collection includes writers, politicians, rabbis and different intellectuals. German-Jewish Literature and History; Emancipation; Weimar Republic; Holocaust
DBiographische Handbücher der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933
Deutsch/German
Benutzeroberfläche/User Interface: Deutsch, Englisch/English, German
Neben dem Standardwerk des Biographischen Handbuchs der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933, welches 8.700 Personenartikel enthält und vom Institut für Zeitgeschichte mit der Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration aufgebaut wurde, finden sich in der Datenbank fünf weitere Quellen zum selben Thema. Diese ermöglicht umfassende Forschungen zur Geschichte der Verfolgung, Migration und dem Wirken der Emigrantinnen und Emigranten im Exil. Deutsche Geschichte, Nationalsozialismus, Migration, Exil
The database contains all 8,700 articles on persons of the Biographisches Handbuch der deutschsprachigen Emigration nach 1933, which was built up by the Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) and the Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration as well as five more sources. The database allows comprehensive research on the history of migration, persecution, and the influence of emigrants.
German History, National Socialism, Migration, Exile
DAndreas Kilcher (Editor-in-Chief)
Deutsch-jüdische Quellen aus Palästina / Israel
Bibliographie und ausgewählte Originalwerke (1890–2000)
Managing Editor: Eva Edelmann-Ohler
Deutsch/German
Benutzeroberfläche/User Interface: Deutsch, Englisch/English, German
Palästina bzw. nach 1948 Israel nimmt eine singuläre Rolle unter den Zielorten der deutsch-jüdischen Immigration ein. Hier erschienen zahlreiche deutschsprachige Texte von bedeutenden Schriftstellern/-innen, wie Else Lasker-Schüler, Sammy Gronemann und Schalom Ben-Chorin. Die Datenbank erfasst über Genregrenzen hinweg Schriften der Immigranten/-innen und enthält 1.500 bibliographische Einträge, von denen 250 zu ihren Volltexten verlinkt werden.
Deutsch-jüdische Literatur; Geschichte und Kultur; Palästina; Israel
Palestine, and later Israel, has been of foremost importance for German-Jewish immigration. Famous texts by major writers, including Else Lasker-Schüler, Sammy Groneman and Shalom Ben-Chorin, were published in Palestine, not in Germany. The electronic resource contains writings of all genres which can be searched by category (e.g. history). The bibliography records approximately 1,500 entries, of which approx. 250 are linked to their full texts.
German-Jewish Literature; History and Culture; Palestine; Israel
Walter Homolka (inactive as of May 2022), Rainer Kampling, Amy-Jill Levine, Christoph Markschies, Peter Schäfer, Martin Thurner (Eds.)
Encyclopedia of JewishChristian Relations Online
Managing Editors: Kathy Ehrensperger, Juni Hoppe
English
User Interface: English, German Update Frequency: Twice a year (spring/autumn) ISSN 2569-3530
The database provides an overview of JewishChristian interaction over the centuries up until today, and thus establishes a standard reference work of interdisciplinary research. International experts at the cutting edge of their disciplines will investigate in two hundred entries more than two thousand years of Jewish-Christian interaction, assess the achievements of dialogue and provide joint perspectives and new avenues for the future.
DWolfgang Benz (Hrsg./Ed.) Handbuch des Antisemitismus Online
In Zusammenarbeit mit/In Cooperation with: Werner Bergmann, Rainer Kampling, Juliane Wetzel, Ulrich Wyrwa
Managing Editor: Brigitte Mihok
Deutsch/German
Benutzeroberfläche/User Interface: Deutsch, Englisch/English, German
Das Handbuch des Antisemitismus Online versammelt das vorhandene Wissen zur Judenfeindschaft: Die Datenbank enthält dabei alle über 2.200 Einträge des achtbändigen Handbuchs (2008–2015) und bietet neue Recherchefunktionalitäten. Wissen zur Judenfeindschaft soll all jenen zugänglich gemacht werden, die in Wissenschaft und Schule, in Medien und Politik Informationen benötigen, die Vorurteile und Stereotypen gegen Jüdinnen und Juden betreffen. Antisemitismus; Antijudaismus; antijüdische Stereotypen
The Handbook of Antisemitism Online compiles the existing knowledge on antisemitsm: this database contains all of the over 2,200 entries from the eight-volume Handbuch (2008–2015) and also provides users with new research functions. Its objective is to make knowledge about antisemitism accessible to anybody in academia or schools, media or politics who requires information about prejudice against and stereotypes about Jews.
Benutzeroberfläche/User Interface: Deutsch, Englisch/English, German
Die Datenbank bietet erstmals die vollständigen, ungekürzten und edierten Tagebücher von Victor Klemperer, dem Chronisten der deutschen Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Als „Kulturgeschichtsschreiber der Katastrophe“ beschrieb der Romanist und konvertierte Jude von 1918 bis 1959 den Prozess der Entrechtung der Juden und dokumentierte zugleich seinen Alltag von der Weimarer Republik bis hin zur frühen DDR. Die digitale Edition setzt neue Maßstäbe.
Deutsche und deutsch-jüdische Geschichte; Weimarer Republik; Nationalsozialismus; DDR; Wissenschaftsgeschichte
For the first time, the database offers the complete and edited diaries of Victor Klemperer, the chronicler of 20th century German history. From 1918 until 1959, the Romance philologist and converted Jew chronicled the process of disenfranchisement of the Jews and at the same time documented day-to-day life from the Weimar Republic until the early days of the GDR. The digital edition contains transcriptions and facsimiles of the originals. German and German-Jewish History; Weimar Republic; National Socialism; GDR; History of Sciences
Robert Singerman (Editor-in-Chief) Singerman Bibliography of Antisemitic Texts in English
English
User Interface: English, German
The bibliographic database identifies primary sources of antisemitic content either written in English or translated into English, from the beginning of the 19th century extending to 2022 imprints. A large percentage of the more than 9,200 texts are patently hate propaganda and theologically-driven while others are considerably more subtle in tone. The entries are accompanied by annotations, often with quotes from cited sources. Jewish studies; antisemitism; judeophobia; antiJewish propaganda
Neue Datenbank
New database
DVertreibungen aus den deutschen Universitäten im Nationalsozialismus
Deutsch/German
Benutzeroberfläche/User Interface: Deutsch, Englisch/English, German
Die Vertreibung zahlreicher Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler durch die brutale Exklusionspolitik des NS-Regimes gilt als bedeutsame Zäsur in der Wissenschaftsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts und führte zu einem beträchtlichen Verlust an wissenschaftlicher Substanz. Die Datenbank bietet 1.300 Biogramme mit Details über Entlassungsgründe, Emigration und Remigration, über KZ-Haft und Suizide sowie über Opfer der NS-Vernichtungspolitik.
Deutsche Geschichte; Universität; Nationalsozialismus; Migration; Exil
The expulsion of numerous scientists by the Nazi regime’s brutal policy of exclusion can be regarded as a significant turning point in the history of science. It led to a considerable loss in Germany’s intellectual milieu. The database provides biographical information on 1,300 persons and provides details on academic status and disciplines, religious affiliation, reasons of expulsion, countries of emigration and remigration among others.
German History; University; National Socialism; Migration; Exile
DConstance M. Furey, Peter Gemeinhardt, Joel Marcus LeMon, Thomas Chr. Römer, Jens Schröter, Barry Dov Walfish, Eric Ziolkowski (Eds.)
Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception Online
English, 12 issues per volume
User Interface: English, German
Update Frequency: Four times per year
The EBR serves as a comprehensive guide to the current state of knowledge on the background, origins, and development of the texts of the Bible. Unprecedented in breadth and scope, this encyclopedia also documents the history of the Bible’s interpretation and reception, not only in Judaism and Christianity, as well as in Islam and other religious traditions, but also in literature, visual art, music, film, and dance.
A Achilles, Oliver 18
Acle-Kreysing, Andrea 25
Adams, Jonathan 16
Admasu, Danny B. 36
Alejchem, Scholem 22
Archiv Bibliographia Judaica e.V. 43
Assaf, Mariana 6
B Barides, Moshe 38
Barter, Penelope 4
Benöhr-Laqueur, Susanne 9
BenZaken, Etty 40
Benz, wolfgang 45
Berges, Ulrich 10
Bergmann, werner 45
Bezzel, Hannes 28
Black, Fiona C. 42
Bodenheimer, Alfred 43
Börner-Klein, Dagmar 14
Boston College, 39 Brandenburgisches Landesmuseum 34
Braulik, Georg 4
Brenner, Michael 31
Breunung, Leonie 37
Bryant, Michael 39
Bulgin, James 23
Bunis, David 22
Burdorf, Dieter 43
C Center for Holocaust and Minority Studies 17
Cohen, Uri 36
Collinet, Benedikt Josef 7
Consonni, Manuela 41
Cotton, Hannah M. 13
Covello-Paran, Karen 28
Craig, Ryann 16
D Dormeyer, Detlev 9 DÖw 41
Duch-Dyngosz, Marta 30
E Eben, Karin 31
Edelmann-Ohler, Eva 44
Ehrensperger, Kathy 44
Ernst, Christian 24
Eser, Patrick 24
F Feierstein, Liliana Ruth 25
Fraisse, Ottfried 18
Freibach-Heifetz, Dana 40
Freiseis, Fabian 19
Frei, Stella Maria 29
Friedman, Alexander 30
Frishman, Judith 17
Fuchshuber, Thorsten 17
Furey, Constance M. 3, 46
FwF 18 G Gal-Ed, Efrat
H. 25
Gemeinhardt, Peter 3, 46 German Federal Archives, 37
Gertz, Jan Christian 42
Gierke,
Stähler, Axel 30
Stein Kokin, Daniel 13
Stemberger, Günter 5
Stepak, Raquel 24
Streicher, Maria 15
Striedl, Philipp 26
Sven och Dagmar Saléns stiftelse 34
T Tamer, Georges 14 15
Tanskanen, Topias K.E. 7
Tavger, Aharon 28
the Modern History Research Group at the University of Freiburg 37
Thora Ohlssons stiftelse, 40
Thurner, Martin 44
Treß, werner 41
Turniansky, Chava 22
U Ubl, Linus 23
Ueberschaer, Frank 7
Universität Zürich 26
University of Gothenburg 34
University of Luxembourg 39
V van Oorschot, Jürgen 42
Venske, Sebastian 19 Vér, Ádám 8
Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle
Open Access Brandenburg 29
Vetenskapsrådet / The Swedish Research Council 16
Vogel, David 24
Vogt, Stefan 31, 32
Vulesica, Marija 29
W walfish, Barry Dov 3, 13, 46 waligorska-Huhle, Magdalena 30 walther, Manfred 37
weidner, Daniel 43
weiß, Jana 40
weisz, Martina 41 weizman, yechiel 30 wenninger, Markus 41 wetzel, Juliane 45 wiese, Christian 31, 32, 43 wilke, Maria 37 wilkens, Jan 29 wohl von Haselberg, Lea 33 worm, Andrea 15 wyrwa, Ulrich 45
