New Library Acquisitions

czollek_versohnungs — Max Czollek's legendary books "*Desintegriert euch!*" and "*Gegenwartsbewältigung*" delightfully cast doubt on popular German narratives ranging from integration to Leitkultur. Sharp, shrewd, and surprising at every point, Versöhnungstheater closes this circle when it asks about the current memory of the past's crimes. Since globally admired gestures of German self-assurance from the Warsaw genuflection to the Holocaust memorial, a lot has changed recently: Berlin's City Palace celebrates Prussia's kings, the military budget conjures up a new era, and the German president, on a trip to Israel, praises Germany unasked for its "reconciliation." Germany is seemingly made anew, all because it remembers the Holocaust in such an exemplary manner. Welcome to the theater of reconciliation! Find it in the catalog
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hansen-miller_music-and-exile — Fresh research on the experiences of music and musicians in exile from Nazi Europe, exploring refugee experiences in Europe, the USA, Australia and Shanghai, the role of institutions, and the reception of individual creative work during and after the Second World War. How did exiled musicians from Germany and Austria, who reached safety at Kitchener Camp in Britain, find themselves in an Australian internment camp in New South Wales in 1940? What were the institutions that helped Jewish refugee musicians survive in wartime Shanghai? What happened to Austrian musicians who were trapped in the Netherlands after the German occupation? These and other questions, and the larger stories they refer to, form the compelling content of this book. Find it in the catalog

grozinger_erste-uni — The first secular Jewish university was founded in Berlin in 1856 under the name of its founder, Veitel Heine Ephraimsche Lehranstalt. The Veitelsche Hochschule was in decided contention with the rabbinical schools as well as with the Berlin Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, founded in 1872. Around 1900, it was the hotbed of an internal Jewish cultural struggle that was carried into the public sphere by its students. It was a dispute against traditional institutions, a successive entry of new educational content and reform steps, and a championing of law, politics, and secular ideas. In his new book, Karl Erich Grözinger paints a picture of a lively, contentious Judaism from the 18th to the 20th century, even as it contended with the king and the authorities. Find it in the catalog
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hahn-kreutzmann_thuringen — In the last three decades, research into the Jewish history of Thuringia has taken off. This volume provides an insight into the development of Jewish life in the region from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The contributions deal with, among other things, the heyday of Jewish life in Thuringia in the Middle Ages, the development of rural Judaism in the early modern period and the role of court Jews in the numerous Thuringian residences, the struggle for legal emancipation in the 19th century, the persecution and extermination of the Jews in Thuringia during the Second World War, and the establishment of the Jewish community in Thuringia. On the basis of these selected topics, the volume offers both a balance of previous research and an insight into current projects as well as an outlook on future research perspectives. Find it in the catalog
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heimann_feuerkette-der-epoche — Gertrud Kolmar (1894-1943) is considered one of the most important German-language poets of the 20th century, yet many of her works remain largely unknown to this day. During her lifetime, only three volumes of poetry were published from her extensive oeuvre: "*Gedichte*", "*Preußische Wappen*", and "*Die Frau und die Tiere*". Gertrud Kolmar herself decided against flight and stayed with her father in Berlin. She had to do forced labor in the armaments industry and wrote her poems at night. In 1943, she was deported in the course of the so-called Fabrikaktion and murdered in Auschwitz.
In her biography, Friederike Heimann draws a very personal and moving portrait of a woman who painfully experienced her life as a Jewish poet in Germany and repeatedly made it the subject of her lyrical and narrative work. Find it in the catalog
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finis-nagel_transcultural-periodicals — Starting from the premise that all Jewish periodicals are the material heirs of a unique textual tradition, the authors of this volume -researchers from Germany, Austria, Israel, Belarus, the UK, and the US - have distilled here the fruits of their interactive discussions. Their inquiry sets out to scrutinize the history of the Ashkenazy Jewish press as a history of the visions it advocated. It transcends the conventional approach which focusses on the context of the nation state. Thus, the reader can trace the journey of Jewish periodicals as they migrated seamlessly across national borders and languages, and hence discover geopolitical and generational entanglements that have so far been largely neglected. Find it in the catalog

gego_infinity — Accompanying the first major museum retrospective exhibition of Gego’s work in the US in more than 15 years, this expansive, definitive catalog charts the evolution of Gego’s singular approach to abstraction through organic forms, linear structures and systematic spatial investigations. Featuring nearly 300 images, including more than 160 sculptures, drawings, prints, artist’s books, textiles and installations made between the early 1950s and the early 1990s, this volume also presents 11 illustrated essays by experts in the field of modern and contemporary Latin American art that trace Gego’s artistic development across various mediums and disciplines, including her significant contributions to architecture and design; ground her practice in various art movements that materialized in Latin America, Europe and the US during her lifetime; and consider the pedagogical influence of her two-decade teaching career in Caracas. Find it in the catalog

schweitzer_dear-uli — Life is full of choices, some thrust on us, others of our own making. Sometimes the consequences can mean the difference between life and death. *DEAR ULI!* is the story of trauma and resilience told through letters to Uli, sent alone to America at age 16, from his family in war-torn Europe. A treasured family collection of more than 750 letters narrates the lives of one German Jewish family, and their anguish, fear and optimism. In 1937, Uli left Berlin and arrived in New York City where he forged a new life for himself. On the other side of the world his twin sister, Isa, and their parents endured the oppressive Nazi regime that culminated with Kristallnacht and Papi's imprisonment. He was among the fortunate who were released, only to face an uncertain and fraught future. The letters and documents evoke images of this family's life and the world around them over the course of the war and beyond. Find it in the catalog

las-ciudades-de-rilke — The Rilke that the reader will find in this book is the traveling Rilke. The seven essays gathered in this volume -written by some of Europe's foremost specialists- situate us in each of the cities where the poet spent time and where something crucial to his life and work was revealed to him. In Prague (the city where he was born and lived an unhappy childhood) he discovered that the creative act of the word was possible; in Florence, the art of learning to see; in Paris, thanks to Cézanne, how to overcome immobility in the face of the perishable; in Moscow, the mysterious homeland of his instincts that would never abandon him; in Toledo and Ronda, a spiritual refuge in full creative crisis, and in Munich, the prelude to an exile that would lead him to Switzerland, where he lived out the rest of his days. There, a hundred years ago now, he finished his *Duineser Elegien*, which gave a final meaning to this pilgrimage to understand the meaning of his work. Find it in the catalog
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gurfinkel_pastries — Forty pastry recipes selected from the most successful and delicious cakes and desserts described in the 80-page recipe notebook the author inherited from her grandmother. Grandmother Ilona started collecting recipes in 1905 in an Austro-Hungarian small town and accumulated 300+ recipes of various pastries, cakes and tarts, reflecting the delightful Austrian and Hungarian confectionery traditions. The recipes were translated from German and Hungarian, carefully tested and adjusted to current units of measure, ingredients, and tools. Find it in the catalog

berger_fohrenwald — From 1945 to 1957, more than 5,000 Jews lived at various points in the Föhrenwald district of Wolfratshausen in Bavaria - with synagogues, a Yiddish newspaper, and a Jewish police force. In 1957, Föhrenwald was dismantled and the inhabitants were scattered across major German cities. Föhrenwald was renamed and erased from memory. The place exemplifies a largely unknown part of German history. The author grew up there, he experienced the silence. He interweaves the search for traces of his homeland with the stories of the survivors who could not leave the land of the perpetrators. Find it in the catalog
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albrich-justic_hochzeits — On January 7, 1906, Jenny Mayer and Soma (Samuel) Kaldor, both of whom came from distinguished families of the Jewish middle class, were married in Innsbruck. Presumably, this would have been forgotten today if friends of the couple had not provided an illustrated supplement as both a wedding gift and guest book. This fortunately preserved book represents a unique contemporary document and provides a fascinating insight into the life and culture of the Jewish bourgeoisie of Innsbruck before the First World War. Find it in the catalog

The LBI Library collects publications related to the history and culture of German-speaking Jews as outlined in its Collection Development Policy. A rotating selection of recent highlights from among our new acquisitions are featured on this website, as well as a link to a comprehensive list of new acquisitions in our catalog.

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