Beyond Inclusion and Exclusion
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During the First World War, the Jewish population of Central Europe was politically, socially, and experientially diverse, to an extent that resists containment within a simple historical narrative. While antisemitism and Jewish disillusionment have dominated many previous studies of the topic, this collection aims to recapture the multifariousness of Central European Jewish life in the experiences of soldiers and civilians alike during the First World War. Here, scholars from multiple disciplines explore rare sources and employ innovative methods to illuminate four interconnected themes: minorities and the meaning of military service, Jewish-Gentile relations, cultural legacies of the war, and memory politics.
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Jason Crouthamel is an Associate Professor of History at Grand Valley State University. His publications include An Intimate History of the Front: Masculinity, Sexuality and German Soldiers in the First World War (2014), The Great War and German Memory: Society, Politics and Psychological Trauma (2009) and two collections coedited with Peter Leese: Psychological Trauma and the Legacies of the First World War and Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After (both 2016).
Content
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jason Crouthamel, Michael Geheran, Tim Grady, and Julia Barbara Köhne
PART I: AT THE MARGINS: MINORITIES AND THE MILITARY
Chapter 1. Hopes and Disappointments: German and French Jews during the Wars of 1870/71 and 1914-1918
Christine G. Krüger
Chapter 2. Habsburg Jews and the Imperial Army before and during the First World War
Tamara Scheer
Chapter 3. The 'Stepchildren' of the Kaiserreich: Alsatians in the German Army during the First World War
Devlin M. Scofield
PART II: RELATIONS: CONTESTED IDENTITIES DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Chapter 4. Rethinking Jewish Front Experiences
Michael Geheran
Chapter 5. "Being German" and "Being Jewish" during the First World War: An Ambivalent Transnational Relationship?
Sarah Panter
Chapter 6. In the Shadow of Antisemitism: Jewish Women and the German Home Front during the First World War
Andrea A. Sinn
Chapter 7. The Social Engagement of Jewish Women in Berlin during the First World War
Sabine Hank
Chapter 8. "My Comrades Are for the Most Part On My Side": Comradeship Between Non-Jewish and German Jewish Front Soldiers in the First World War
Jason Crouthamel
PART III: REPRESENTATION: THE CULTURE OF WAR
Chapter 9. Blind Spots and Jewish Heroines: Refashioning the Galician War Experience in 1920s Hollywood and Berlin
Philipp Stiasny
Chapter 10. Agnon on the Home Front in In Mr Lublin's Store: Hebrew Fiction of the First World War
Glenda Abramson
PART IV: CONTESTED MEMORIES: WORKING THROUGH THE LEGACIES OF WAR
Chapter 11. Paper Psyches: On the Psychography of the Front Soldier According to Paul Plaut
Julia Barbara Köhne
Chapter 12. Narrative Negotiations: Interpreting the Cultural Position of Jews in National(social)ist War Narratives from 1914 to 1945
Florian Brückner
Afterword: German Jewry and the First World War: Beyond Polemic and Apologetic
Derek Jonathan Penslar
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