New Library Acquisitions

all-consuming — Historian John M. Efron focuses on the contested culture of meat and its role in the formation of ethnic identities in Germany. To an extent not seen elsewhere in Europe, Germans have identified, thought about, studied, decried, and gladly eaten meat understood to be "Jewish." Expressions of this engagement are found across the cultural landscape—in literature, sculpture, and visual arts—and evident in legal codes and commercial enterprises. Likewise, Jews in Germany have vigorously defended their meats and the culture and rituals surrounding them by educating Germans and Jews alike about their meaning and relevance.
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ich_will_fortleben — Anne Frank dreamed of one day becoming a famous writer. Her father Otto Frank wanted to fulfill his daughter's wish and made the distribution of Anne's diary his life's work. In 1947, “Het Achterhuis” was published in the Netherlands; the first German edition was published in 1950. Today, the diary is one of the most widely read books in the world; the impact it has had since the post-war period is unparalleled. But the story of its success is marked by obstacles and setbacks - and is largely unknown. Thomas Sparr deciphers how it came about, how it was disseminated, how it is received all over the world and why it is still with us today.
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i_will_come_back — A gripping account of hidden identity, military courage, and an against-all-odds reunion. Four days after Germany's surrender in May 1945, a young British officer took a jeep and headed east into Germany. But this was no ordinary soldier. Manfred Gans was searching for his family. As a Jewish boy in Nazi Germany, Gans had fled to England. As soon as he could, he signed up to fight, serving in the legendary British 'Three Troop', an elite unit made up of German-speaking refugees, and joining in the D-Day Normandy landings. Working undercover, he obtained vital intelligence, helped liberate occupied France and the Netherlands, and saved countless lives on both sides of the front.
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berlin_berlin — Berlin had an indelible influence on Helmut Newton and his photographic work. Many of his iconic images show the fascination he held for the city throughout his remarkable career from the 1930s to the 21st century: nightcrawlers in uber-cool clubs, nude portraits in the old Berlin guesthouses of his youth, and the Berlin film scene.
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love_and_betrayal — Influenced by the horrors of the First World War and the revolutionary unrest, the Expressionist Fritz Ascher (1893-1970) turned to Christian-spiritual themes, which he radically reinterpreted. From 1916 onwards, he explored the themes of love and betrayal in intimate drawings. During his persecution under National Socialism, he created impressive poems that are considered his “unpainted pictures”. They complement early charcoal, graphite and ink drawings as well as colorful gouaches.
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juedischer-widerstand — Jewish resistance to the Holocaust took place throughout Europe. In Eastern Europe, it was at times spectacular, with uprisings lasting several weeks, such as in the Warsaw Ghetto, or revolts and mass escapes, such as in the Treblinka and Sobibor extermination camps. This volume reveals the many facets of Jewish resistance: It reports on its religious foundations, the documentation and gathering of evidence, rescue networks, and, of course, the armed struggle in the camps and among the partisans.
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Karl_Ilbing — Karl Ilbing (1886-1981) was a Russian-Austrian-Israeli architect and graduate of the Graz University of Technology. Ilbing's studies, the challenges of setting up his own office, the difficult commission situation and anti-Semitism in Graz, emigration and a new start in Palestine during the British Mandate period - all this formed the framework and context of his work. In Graz, Karl Ilbing mainly designed stores and interiors; in Haifa, he designed multi-storey, comfortable residential buildings on Mount Carmel. This book is the first to shed light on this architect and broadens our view of the many facets of modern architecture.
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anna_tumarkin — The philosopher Anna Tumarkin (1875-1951) was the first woman in the world to be appointed a full professor at a university attended by both men and women in 1909. The life of the Russian-Jewish woman, who came to Bern to study at a very young age, was anything but easy. Despite the support of her liberal mentors, who campaigned vehemently for the young scholar, the scientist had to work her way up step by step. She bore the torment of her family, who perished in the Russian pogroms and the National Socialist terror. However, she bravely endured her destiny according to the motto: “It's not fate that matters, but what we make of it.”
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willy_meisl — Willy Meisl was an Austrian-Jewish sports journalist who dominated the field during the Weimar Republic. A son of Viennese coffee houses, Meisl intellectualised sports writing in the interwar years, covering themes like professionalism, tactics and sporting antiquity for wide audiences, in styles more commonly found in the newspapers’ culture sections. Contemporaries called him the King of the Sports Journalists. But his work was affected profoundly by the Nazis’ rise to power, whereupon he began to write about Nazism’s roots, the terror it unleashed, and about the Jews and Jewish identity; exposing the fallacies of the racial theories that forced him into exile. This volume presents his most searing writings on these themes.
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ich-will-alles-malen — Katja Behling and Anke Manigold recount the fascinating lives and works of women who, at the turn of the century, stood their ground against social resistance in order to be recognized as artists. It is a journey of art-historical discovery and an impressive chapter in the history of emancipation that allows readers to immerse themselves in the world of these intrepid women artists.
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ukrainisch-werden — For a long time researchers on Jewish-Ukrainian relations put forward the thesis that Jews in Galicia did not identify with Ukrainian culture; instead, Galician Jews have been portrayed as assimilating into German and Polish culture. Based on new archival documents, this book analyzes those Jews who were willing to adopt elements of Ukrainian culture in education, conversion and military. Although Jews and Ukrainians had bitter quarrels and engaged in physical violence, it cannot be ignored that some Jews found their own ways of positioning themselves within the Ukrainian community.
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Nie_gefragt_nie_erzaehlt — Many Holocaust survivors often kept silent for a long time. They did not want to burden their children, and the children in turn wanted to spare their parents. Hans Riebsamen follows in the footsteps of the trauma that was inflicted on Holocaust survivors and their descendants. The daughters, sons and grandchildren of 31 families talk about how the trauma has affected them and about their attempts to come to terms with it or emancipate themselves from it.
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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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