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{"title":"In the Shadow of Auschwitz: German Massacres against Polish Civilians, 1939–1945 by Daniel Brewing (review)","authors":"J. Biskupska","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0023","url":null,"abstract":"to their combative tone and censorious style, many of the texts are closer to historical journalism than to academic debate—but this feature makes them also more interesting to read. Only rarely does Winkler correct himself, such as by admitting his reluctance to distance himself from post-nationalism so as to embrace national unification during the peaceful revolution of 1989/1990 (232). The overall impression of these polemical interventions is therefore somewhat mixed. The volume recalls many of the key controversies during the last decades, which transformed German historiography into a progressive direction by what Georg Iggers called “the social history of politics.” But several of the texts have a somewhat nostalgic feel because the issues they address—such as the Historikerstreit—have been resolved and seem no longer as pressing as they once did. Moreover, the presentation of the essays struggles with a double chronology which is sometimes confusing: On which historical epoch do they comment and in what context were they written? Younger scholars might also wonder why there is not more engagement with gender questions, transnational approaches, or global issues that fascinate the current generation. But perhaps recalling once again that it took sharp disputes to overcome a poisonous nationalist tradition is enough of an achievement of which to be proud. Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"165 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48729829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Digital Archives, Digital Cultures: An Opportunity for German Studies","authors":"Thorsten Ries","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"136 - 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49122502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136361685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Disability in German-Speaking Europe: History, Memory, Culture ed. by Linda Leskau, Tanja Nusser, and Katherine Sorrels (review)","authors":"Petra Watzke","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"179 - 181"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42025427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deutungskämpfe. Der Streit um die deutsche Geschichte by Heinrich August Winkler (review)","authors":"K. Jarausch","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"163 - 165"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49336164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Jüdische Migration und Diversität in Wien und Berlin 1667/71–1918. Von der Vertreibung der Wiener Juden und ihrer Wiederansiedlung in Berlin bis zum Zionismus by Ingo Haar (review)","authors":"Barbara L. Bailin","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0017","url":null,"abstract":"In Jüdische Migration und Diversität in Wien und Berlin 1667/71–1918, Ingo Haar analyzes the factors affecting Jewish migration patterns during peace and wartime. Most prominent among them were the application of social pressure to compel Berlin and Viennese Jews to assimilate and the efforts by Jews themselves to concede to the demands of the state while striving to retain their own religious community. Haar traces these factors over 250 years between Jewish emancipation (seventeenth century) and the rise of modern antisemitism (nineteenth century). He focuses on the history of the Jewish path between “cultural stigmatization and social functionalization” to understand the ambivalence of the period of Jewish emancipation that extended into modernity (12). In doing so, he builds upon the work of several earlier historians, e.g., J. Friedrich Battenberg (German Jewish emancipation in the early modern period), Tobias Brinkmann (German Jewish migrations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), Werner Jochmann (modern German antisemitism), and Heinz Fassmann (Austrian Jewish migration). Haar compares the complex socio-cultural processes of how Jews in Berlin and Vienna became more inclusive or more exclusive from Christian society over time. He argues, correctly in my opinion, that the history of conflict between Protestants, Catholics, and Jews can only be understood by examining the underlying events of the pre-modern period and its effect on Jewish migration and diversity patterns. By doing so, he explicitly rejects the view of other historians who debate whether the twentieth century was characterized by its radical nationalism and was built on the practices of violence of the nineteenth century (16). By focusing on Jewish social and cultural history, he argues that historic violence against and expulsion(s) of Jews because of their religious beliefs were the rule and not the exception for centuries. The continued existence of Jewish communities in Berlin and Vienna became increasingly dependent upon the whims of the ruling sovereigns and the willingness of the Christian populations to accept Jewish citizens of those cities by the late sixteenth century (490). Jewish businessmen served literally “at the pleasure” of their Christian patron(s). In a particularly striking example of the lengths to which this concept was taken, Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg appointed the “court Jew” (Hofjude) Lipman ben Juda (1530–1573) as court chamberlain responsible for managing credit transactions and the sovereign right of coinage (Münzregal). Upon the elector’s death, his successor","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"153 - 155"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47129501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mediating the Nineteenth Century: Literature, Science, and the History of Knowledge","authors":"Jessica Resvick","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Chinese in Europe, ed. Gregor Benton and Frank N. Pieke (Basinstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1998), 201. 6. Dagmar Yü-Dembski, “Cosmopolitan Lifestyles and ‘Yellow Quarters’: Traces of Chinese Life in Germany, 1921–1941” in Chinatowns in a Transnational World: Myths and Realities of an Urban Phenomenon, ed. Vanessa Künnemann and Ruth Mayer (New York: Routledge, 2011), 73. 7. Lars Amenda, “‘Chinesenaktion’ zur Rassenpolitik und Verfolgung im nationalsozialistischen Hamburg,” Zeitschrift des Vereins für Hamburgische Geschichte 91 (2005): 119. 8. Gütinger, “A Sketch of the Chinese Community,” 202–203. 9. Gertrude Kracauer, interviewed by Berl Falbaum in Shanghai Remembered . . . : Stories of Jews Who Escaped to Shanghai from Nazi Europe, ed. Berl Falbaum (Royal Oak, Michigan: Momentum Books, 2005), 116; Kimberly Cheng, “The Trial of Lam See-Woh: Chinese Men and German Women in Hamburg, 1933–1947,” German Studies Review 46, no. 1 (2023): 20–21. 10. Dagmar Yü-Dembski, “Huaqiao—Geschichte der Auslandschinesen in Deutschland,” in Migration und Integration der Auslandschinesen in Deutschland, ed. Hui-wen von Groeling-Che and Dagmar Yü-Dembski (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2005), 41–42. 11. Hsi-huey Liang, The Sino-German Connection: Alexander von Falkenhausen between China and Germany 1900–1941 (Assen: Van Gorcum, 1978), 78–79.","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"132 - 134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46152582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Four-Color Communism: Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic Republic by Sean Eedy (review)","authors":"Anna Horáková","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0027","url":null,"abstract":"der Klage und Mantik in Jelineks Fortschreibungen der griechischen Tragödien studiert Silke Felber und untersucht exemplarisch Jelineks Agamemnon-Revision Ein Sturz (2009), in dem der heutige, negative Fatalismus sowie die Inklusionsund Exklusionsproblematik kritisiert wird. “Im Beleben der Strukturelemente der Klage und der Mantik wird hier das ‘Urbild’ Demokratie im Sinne Alain Badious als emblème entlarvt, das auf ein neoliberales Signifikat verweist, . . . das die Grundprinzipien von Gleichheit, Freiheit und politischer Autonomie durch marktwirtschaftliche Kriterien wie Effizienz und Rentabilität ersetzt hat” (228). Teresa Kovacs geht dem provozierenden Potential der Jelinek-Inszenierungen von Einar Schleef mit speziellem Fokus auf die Fotografie in seinem Theater nach. Fazit: “das Es-ist-so-gewesen der Fotografie” (251) eröffnet neue Lesarten zentraler Theaterkategorien wie Mimesis und Pathos. Jelineks und Schleefs Bezug auf die Wirklichkeit lässt sich dadurch anders fassen, “nicht als Abbildung oder Kopie, sondern als Spur des Wirklichen, als Zeugenschaft der Zeit, nicht des Objekts” (252). Diese Anthologie bietet elf aufschlussreich gegliederte und klar formulierte Beiträge mit bemerkenswert anregenden Forschungsergebnissen und Einblicken in Jelineks Werk. Die theoretisch solide fundierten Studien zeichnen sich durch ihre tiefgründigen Analysen und ihre starke Beweisführung aus. Auch wird die Person Jelinek mitgeschrieben, um zu zeigen, dass in den Texten immer auch das moralische Engagement der Autorin mitschwingt. Hilfreich für die weitere Forschung sind die Literaturverzeichnisse am Ende jedes Aufsatzes. Statt Index gibt es ein Personenregister. Dieses Buch ist empfehlenswert, vor allem für jene, die sich um ein tieferes Verständnis für die provozierende Kompromisslosigkeit von Jelineks Kunst und ihrem moralisch-fundierten, reflektierenden Kunstanspruch bemühen. Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, Lafayette College","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"174 - 176"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43569315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translation of German History Texts in Romanian: Knowledge and Ideology Transfer as a Steppingstone into the Modernity of the Nineteenth Century","authors":"Alexandra Chiriac","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0000","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:Caught between three great Empires, the Romanian Principalities found an opportunity starting in 1770 to draw from the Western written tradition new ways to create and develop an enlightened culture. This openness toward the West manifested itself mainly through secular translations, causing a dramatic shift in the cultural and political life of the Romanian Principalities. Rooted in postcolonial studies and cultural anthropology, this study provides an overview of the translation process and products of historical texts from German into Romanian (1770–1830) using translations as examples of cultural transfer and of the actor–network interaction.","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"1 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48525285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reading Racialization: Yadé Kara's Selam Berlin","authors":"Y. Yıldız","doi":"10.1353/gsr.2023.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0005","url":null,"abstract":"abstract:In a context that denies the workings of race, engagements with its impact are not always easily discernible. This essay argues that Yadé Kara's 2003 novel Selam Berlin can be read as an overlooked literary negotiation of this \"political racelessness\" (Goldberg) through its nuanced attention to racialization. Building on critical accounts from Frantz Fanon to Sara Ahmed, the essay contours the specific nature of racialization from the vantage point of those subjected to it and demonstrates how the novel narrativizes the components of this quotidian process. Rather than merely describing it, however, the novel makes racialization's impact palpable via an affective pedagogy targeted at the reader.","PeriodicalId":43954,"journal":{"name":"German Studies Review","volume":"46 1","pages":"115 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48062756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}