Jewish Studies in Germany after 1945 and today - Einzelansicht

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Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	WiSe 2017/18
Einrichtung	Institut für Jüdische Studien und Religionswissenschaft	Sprache	deutsch
Weitere Links	Kommentar
Belegungsfrist	04.10.2017 - 10.11.2017 Belegung über PULS

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Do	14:00 bis 16:00	wöchentlich	19.10.2017 bis 08.02.2018	1.11.1.25	Prof. Dr. Schulte	21.12.2017: Akademische Weihnachtsferien 28.12.2017: Akademische Weihnachtsferien

Kommentar	Für weitere Informationen zum Kommentar, zur Literatur und zum Leistungsnachweis klicken Sie bitte oben auf den Link "Kommentar". Jewish Studies in Germany after 1945 and until today are an heir to the Wissenschaft des Judentums — historically and methodologically. From the very start in the 1820ies in Berlin, Wissenschaft des Judentums was a pluridisciplinary endeavor. Philosophy, history and philology were the key disciplines of this first modern critical research in Judaism, covering not only Jewish religion but also profane Jewish everyday life. Although Wissenschaft des Judentums was never institutionalized at a German university, Germany became the world centre of Jewish Studies until 1933. After the Shoah and the deportation and expulsion of Jewish scholars from Germany, only in 1963 the first chair of Judaistik was opened at Freie Universität in Berlin, followed by the opening of the Martin-Buber-Institut at Cologne University in 1964. Then, scholars and students alike had to face the fact, that Jewish libraries and archives in Germany had been devastated in the Nazi era. In the aftermath of 1968, with students asking questions about the Nazi era and the Shoah, a separation of interest and research perspectives took place in Jewish Studies in Germany: Historians started to research and reconstruct German-Jewish history from the Middle ages until the Shoah, whereas a whole generation of Hebrew philologians, trained mainly in Jerusalem, specialized in rabbinics and Kabbalah. This separation lasted until German unification in 1989. In the 1990ies, mainly two institutions renewed the pluridisciplinary approach in Jewish Studies and tried to enlarge and to widen the scope, viz. the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien in Heidelberg and Jüdische Studien in Potsdam: The fields of rabbinics and of Jewish history were reunited and fused with the fields of Jewish literatures and cultures, including also Yiddish and German-Jewish literature. With the immmigration of post-Soviet Jews into Germany, tripling the number of Jews living in Germany, Potsdam University became the place for the university education and ordination of liberal and conservative rabbis and cantors since 1999. At the same time, the Hochschule in Heidelberg is the institution to train Jewish teachers for German-speaking countries. Whereas Jewish Studies in the 1960ies started almost without Jewish students, after 1989 ever more Jewish students and scholars came to Germany from Russia, Israel and the U.S. and are today a part of a renewed Jewish life in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany. The course offers an overview about the historical events and trends shaping Jewish Studies in Germany after 1945 like the Eichmann trial, Mai 1968, the Mahnmal-Debatte in Berlin, the immigration of Jews from post-Soviet states and the recent muslim refugee immigration. The course will present source materials from archives, institutional history, the main scholars, research trends and results, political context, films, teaching programmes and recent student surveys.
Literatur	Marianne Awerbuch: Die Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, in: Reimer Hansen, Wolfgang Ribbe (Hg.): Geschichtswissenschaft in Berlin im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Persönlichkeiten und Institutionen, Berlin, New York 1992, S. 518-551. Julius H. Carlebach (Hg.), Wissenschaft des Judentums. Anfänge der Judaistik in Europa, Darmstadt 1992. Amos Funkenstein, Jüdische Geschichte und ihre Deutungen, Frankfurt/M. 1995 Christhard Hoffmann, Jüdisches Lernen oder judaistische Spezialwissenschaft? Die Konzeptionen Franz Rosenzweigs und Eugen Taeublers zur Gründung der “Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums”, in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte, 45 (1993) Heft 1, S. 18-32. Guido Kisch (Hg.), Das Breslauer Seminar, Tübingen 1963. Paul Mendes-Flohr / Jehuda Reinharz (Hg.), Modern Jewish Studies, in: dies., The Jew in the Modern World, 2. Aufl. New York/Oxford 1995, S. 211-248. Ismar Schorsch, From Text to Context. The Turn to History in Modern Judaism, Hanover, London 1994. Siegfried Ucko, “Geistesgeschichtliche Grundlagen der Wissenschaft des Judentums”, in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland, 5 (1934), S. 1-34. Christian Wiese, Wissenschaft des Judentums und protestantische Theologie im wilhelminischen Deutschland. Ein Schrei ins Leere?, Tübingen 1999 Kurt Wilhelm (Hg.), Wissenschaft des Judentums im deutschen Sprachbereich. Ein Querschnitt, 2 Bde. Tübingen 1967

Kommentar

Für weitere Informationen zum Kommentar, zur Literatur und zum Leistungsnachweis klicken Sie bitte oben auf den Link "Kommentar".

Jewish Studies in Germany after 1945 and until today are an heir to the Wissenschaft des Judentums — historically and methodologically. From the very start in the 1820ies in Berlin, Wissenschaft des Judentums was a pluridisciplinary endeavor. Philosophy, history and philology were the key disciplines of this first modern critical research in Judaism, covering not only Jewish religion but also profane Jewish everyday life. Although Wissenschaft des Judentums was never institutionalized at a German university, Germany became the world centre of Jewish Studies until 1933. After the Shoah and the deportation and expulsion of Jewish scholars from Germany, only in 1963 the first chair of Judaistik was opened at Freie Universität in Berlin, followed by the opening of the Martin-Buber-Institut at Cologne University in 1964. Then, scholars and students alike had to face the fact, that Jewish libraries and archives in Germany had been devastated in the Nazi era.
In the aftermath of 1968, with students asking questions about the Nazi era and the Shoah, a separation of interest and research perspectives took place in Jewish Studies in Germany: Historians started to research and reconstruct German-Jewish history from the Middle ages until the Shoah, whereas a whole generation of Hebrew philologians, trained mainly in Jerusalem, specialized in rabbinics and Kabbalah. This separation lasted until German unification in 1989.
In the 1990ies, mainly two institutions renewed the pluridisciplinary approach in Jewish Studies and tried to enlarge and to widen the scope, viz. the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien in Heidelberg and Jüdische Studien in Potsdam: The fields of rabbinics and of Jewish history were reunited and fused with the fields of Jewish literatures and cultures, including also Yiddish and German-Jewish literature. With the immmigration of post-Soviet Jews into Germany, tripling the number of Jews living in Germany, Potsdam University became the place for the university education and ordination of liberal and conservative rabbis and cantors since 1999. At the same time, the Hochschule in Heidelberg is the institution to train Jewish teachers for German-speaking countries. Whereas Jewish Studies in the 1960ies started almost without Jewish students, after 1989 ever more Jewish students and scholars came to Germany from Russia, Israel and the U.S. and are today a part of a renewed Jewish life in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany.

The course offers an overview about the historical events and trends shaping Jewish Studies in Germany after 1945 like the Eichmann trial, Mai 1968, the Mahnmal-Debatte in Berlin, the immigration of Jews from post-Soviet states and the recent muslim refugee immigration. The course will present source materials from archives, institutional history, the main scholars, research trends and results, political context, films, teaching programmes and recent student surveys.

Literatur

Marianne Awerbuch: Die Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, in: Reimer Hansen, Wolfgang Ribbe (Hg.): Geschichtswissenschaft in Berlin im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Persönlichkeiten und Institutionen, Berlin, New York 1992, S. 518-551.
Julius H. Carlebach (Hg.), Wissenschaft des Judentums. Anfänge der Judaistik in Europa, Darmstadt 1992.
Amos Funkenstein, Jüdische Geschichte und ihre Deutungen, Frankfurt/M. 1995
Christhard Hoffmann, Jüdisches Lernen oder judaistische Spezialwissenschaft? Die Konzeptionen Franz Rosenzweigs und Eugen Taeublers zur Gründung der “Akademie für die Wissenschaft des Judentums”, in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte, 45 (1993) Heft 1, S. 18-32.
Guido Kisch (Hg.), Das Breslauer Seminar, Tübingen 1963.
Paul Mendes-Flohr / Jehuda Reinharz (Hg.), Modern Jewish Studies, in: dies., The Jew in the Modern World, 2. Aufl. New York/Oxford 1995, S. 211-248.
Ismar Schorsch, From Text to Context. The Turn to History in Modern Judaism, Hanover, London 1994.
Siegfried Ucko, “Geistesgeschichtliche Grundlagen der Wissenschaft des Judentums”, in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland, 5 (1934), S. 1-34.
Christian Wiese, Wissenschaft des Judentums und protestantische Theologie im wilhelminischen Deutschland. Ein Schrei ins Leere?, Tübingen 1999
Kurt Wilhelm (Hg.), Wissenschaft des Judentums im deutschen Sprachbereich. Ein Querschnitt, 2 Bde. Tübingen 1967

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Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester WiSe 2017/18 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024