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Precarious Figurations focuses on the reception of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Germany. Looking at theatrical practices and critical or scholarly discourses from the Weimar Republic to the new millennium, the book explores why the play has served simultaneously as a vehicle for the actualization of anti-Semitic tropes and as a staging ground for the critical exposure of the very logic of anti-Semitism. In particular, the study investigates how the figure of Shylock has come to be both a device in and a stumbling block for attempts to bridge the fundamental rupture in civilization brought about by the Holocaust. The careful analysis of the German reception of Merchant, and in particular of the ways of doing and reading Shylock in the context of painful German, and German-Jewish, discourses of identity and remembrance, is designed to raise fundamental questions - questions concerning not only the staging of Jewishness, the tenacity of anti-Semitism and the difficulties of Holocaust remembrance, but also the general potentials and limitations of theatrical interventions into cultural conflicts.

Germany. --- Shakespeare. --- Shylock. --- anti-Semitism. --- Shylock

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This volume traces the history of antisemitism from antiquity through contemporary manifestations of the discrimination of Jews. It documents the religious, sociological, political and economic contexts in which antisemitism thrived and thrives and shows how such circumstances served as support and reinforcement for a curtailment of the Jews' social status. The volume sheds light on historical processes of discrimination and identifies them as a key factor in the contemporary and future fight against antisemitism.

HISTORY / Jewish. --- Anti-Semitism. --- anti-Judaism, anti-Jewish stereotypes. --- strategies against anti-Semitism.

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Die Beiträge des Bandes analysieren aus der Perspektive unterschiedlicher wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen künstlerisch-mediale Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Antisemitismus vor 1950. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, auf welche Weise jeweils Antisemitismus thematisiert, dargestellt und kritisiert wird. Allen Aufsätzen gemeinsam ist eine Orientierung am gegenwärtigen Stand transdisziplinärer Antisemitismusforschung. Die Analysen beziehen sich ebenso auf teilweise vergessene wie auch auf kanonisierte »Texte«, was im Sinne des erweiterten Textbegriffs Filme, Zeichnungen, Karikaturen, Comics etc. einschließt. Insgesamt wird so ein mehrsprachiges Korpus erfasst, das sich über einen Zeitraum erstreckt, der etwa mit Gotthold Ephraim Lessings Thematisierung antijüdischer Vorstellungen in seinem Drama »Die Juden« (1749) beginnt und bis zu Laura Z. Hobsons Roman »Gentleman's Agreement« (1947) sowie dessen Verfilmung aus demselben Jahr reicht. The focus of the volume is on artistic and media involvement with anti-Semitism before 1950 across different arts and languages. It recalls largely forgotten novels from the 1920s, such as Hugo Bettauer's City without Jews, and the film "Gentleman's Agreement." It reinterprets classical writers, such as Gotthold E. Lessing, and analyzes their work using the contemporary transdisciplinary approach in anti-Semitism research.

Antisemitism. --- Antisemitism in art. --- Antisemitism --- Research. --- Anti-Semitism (in art). --- anti-Semitism research.

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Schon etwa 150 Jahre vor der "Dialektik der Aufklärung" begannen Wissenschaftler, darunter zahlreiche Jüdinnen und Juden, die moderne Judenfeindschaft begrifflich zu erfassen und zu erklären. Der vorliegende Band rekonstruiert erstmals viele dieser aus verschiedenen politischen Richtungen, gesellschaftlichen Bereichen und akademischen Disziplinen stammenden Erklärungsansätze. Sichtbar wird eine vielgestaltige Forschung, die bislang als Vorgeschichte heutiger Antisemitismustheorien kaum Berücksichtigung fand. Erkenntnisleitend für die Analysen ist die Frage, inwiefern es diesen Beschreibungsversuchen gelang, die herrschenden antisemitischen Vorurteile und Denkweisen zu überwinden und dabei Grundlagen für eine wissenschaftliche Auseinandersetzung zu formulieren. Zu den Autorinnen und Autoren der hier diskutierten Texte gehören u.a. Saul Ascher, Fritz Bernstein, Nathan Birnbaum, Isaac Breuer, Constantin Brunner, Christian Konrad Wilhelm von Dohm, Norbert Elias, Eduard Fuchs, Emma Goldman, Julius Goldstein, David Kaufmann, Bernard Lazare, Moritz Lazarus, Leo Trotzki, Mark Vishniak und Arnold Zweig.

Antisemitism --- History. --- 19th century. --- Anti-Semitism. --- theory formation.

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Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) was a prominent German sociologist, economist and Zionist activist. As a co-founder of academic sociology in Germany, Oppenheimer vehemently opposed the influence of antisemitism on the nascent field. As an expert on communal agricultural settlement, Oppenheimer co-edited the scientific Zionist journal Altneuland (1904-1906), which became a platform for a distinct Jewish participation within the racial and colonial discourses of Imperial Germany. By positioning Zionist aspirations within a German colonial narrative, Altneuland presented Zionism as an extension, instead of a rejection, of German patriotism. By doing so, the journal's contributors hoped to recruit new supporters and model Zionism as a source of secular Jewish identity for German Jewry. While imagining future relationships between Jews, Arabs, and German settlers in Palestine, Oppenheimer and his contemporaries also reimagined the place of Jews among European nations.

HISTORY / Jewish. --- Anti-Semitism. --- Colonialism. --- Germany. --- Jewish identity. --- Zionism.