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The ‚First Letters of Jacob Wahrman

Dezember 14, 2016, 3:12 p.m., Morris-Reich, A., Allgemein.

Within the broader framework of the history of Jews, Germans, and science after the Holocaust, this article examines the tensions between Israeli and German scientists, paying particular attention to sciences that had been corrupted during the Nazi era. More specifically, the article studies the correspondence between German-born Israeli geneticist Jacob Wahrman and his German and Austrian colleagues, initiated as early as 1950 when Wahrman was still a PhD student. The article employs David Kettler's notion of ‘first letters’ as a theoretical framework for reading Wahrman's correspondence with German biologists and geneticists. In addition, the letters are brought into conversation with the genetic utopia promoted in the science fiction novels of Ram Moav, Wahrman s colleague in the Department of Genetics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Reading Wahrman and Moav together, the article focuses on what might be termed a post-Holocaustian ‘genetic fantasy’.

Quelle: http://leobaeck.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/61/1/199?rss=1

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Survivor: Towards a Conceptual History

Dezember 14, 2016, 3:12 p.m., Bothe, A., Nesselrodt, M., Allgemein.

Quelle: http://leobaeck.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/61/1/57?rss=1

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IX. GERMAN-JEWISH RELATIONS

Dezember 14, 2016, 3:12 p.m., The Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook - current issue, Allgemein.

Quelle: http://leobaeck.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/61/1/503?rss=1

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Conceptions of Comradeship: Hans H. Pinkus and the Nazification of the Reichsvereinigung ehemaliger Kriegsgefangener

Dezember 14, 2016, 3:12 p.m., Feltman, B. K., Allgemein.

This article examines the relationship between Hans H. Pinkus, a prominent German Jew, and the Reichsvereinigung ehemaliger Kriegsgefangener (ReK), the largest association of former German prisoners of the First World War. Pinkus's surrender in August 1914 called his soldierly virtue into question and threatened to confirm stereotypes of Jewish cowardice. Military surrender carried a stigma, and Pinkus was counted among the former prisoners who sought to redeem their image with the general public and the community of German veterans. Drawing on Pinkus's correspondence with the ReK, the article chronicles his influential role in the organization's development and his marginalization following Hitler's rise to power. An analysis of Pinkus's involvement in and removal from the ReK both complements and complicates earlier work on Jewish war veterans, which has largely focused on the Reichsbund jüdischer Frontsoldaten. Pinkus's experiences as a member of the ReK demonstrate how many German veterans came to accept the ‘social death’ of loyal Jewish comrades despite holding no antisemitic views. The experiences of surrender, captivity, and the post-war struggle for respect influenced the manner in which the ReK rationalized the removal of Pinkus from its membership. If Pinkus's expulsion made integration into the veterans' community a possibility, the ReK was willing to sacrifice one of its most dedicated members for the sake of securing a place in Hitler's ‘community of the front’.

Quelle: http://leobaeck.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/61/1/163?rss=1

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