Intersections between Jewish Studies and Habsburg Studies

von Tim Corbett, Mirjam Thulin, Moritz Csáky, Klaus Hödl, Verena Kasper-Marienberg, Ilya Berkovich, Johannes Czakai, Alicja Maślak-Maciejewska, Martin Stechauner, Lida-Maria Dodou, Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek, Omar Nasr, Monika Halbinger, Magdalena Jánošiková, Katrin Keßler, Anthony D. Kauders, Zora Piskačová, Rafael Arnold, Michael K. Schulz, Susanne Weigand, Michelle Tusan, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Cheuck Him Ryan Sun, Sean Sidky, Elana Shapira

202 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In the aftermath of the Shoah and the ostensible triumph of nationalism, it became common in historiography to relegate Jews to the position of the “eternal other” in a series of binaries: Christian/Jewish, Gentile/Jewish, European/Jewish, non-Jewish/Jewish, and so forth. For the longest time, these binaries remained characteristic of Jewish historiography, including in the Central European context. Assuming instead, as the more recent approaches in Habsburg studies do, that pluriculturalism was the basis of common experience in formerly Habsburg Central Europe, and accepting that no single “majority culture” existed, but rather hegemonies were imposed in certain contexts, then the often used binaries are misleading and conceal the complex and sometimes even paradoxical conditions that shaped Jewish life in the region before the Shoah. The very complexity of Habsburg Central Europe both in synchronic and diachronic perspective precludes any singular historical narrative of “Habsburg Jewry,” and it is not the intention of this volume to offer an overview of “Habsburg Jewish history.” The selected articles in this volume illustrate instead how important it is to reevaluate categories, deconstruct historical narratives, and reconceptualize implemented approaches in specific geographic, temporal, and cultural contexts in order to gain a better understanding of the complex and pluricultural history of the Habsburg Empire and the region as a whole.

• Reihe: PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V.
• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Judentum Leben und Praxis
• ISBN: 9783869565743
• Sprache: Englisch, Deutsch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 25.03.2024
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
• Herausgegeben von: Björn Siegel, Tim Corbett, Oskar Czendze