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Author:   Cornelia Wilhelm
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780253070180

ISBN 10:   025307018
Pages:   322
Publication Date:   08 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   To order  

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"Introduction: Understanding ""The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate"" 1. German Jewry under Nazism: Changes and Challenges for the Rabbinical Profession 2. Rescue and Flight: Scholars and Students—And a Visa That Saved Lives 3. Flight and Rescue: Rabbis—And a Visa That Saved Lives 4. The Refugees' First Years in the United States: Employment, Settlement, Congregations, and the Encounter with American Society and American Judaism 5. Careers Lost and Found: Paths of Professional Success and Failure and the Making of ""the Last Generation of the German Rabbinate"" 6. Refugee Returns: Transatlantic Encounters and the Legacy of the ""Last Generation of the German Rabbinate"" Conclusion Notes Bibliography"

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Cornelia Wilhelm is Professor of modern history at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. Her work focuses on comparative and transnational aspects of (Jewish) history and on race, ethnicity, migration, and religion. She is author of Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity: The Independent Orders of B'nai B'rith and True Sisters and, in German, Bewegung oder Verein? Nationalsozialistische Volkstumspolitik in den USA (Movement or association: Nazi ""Volkstumspolitik [racialized ethnic politics]"" in the United States). Currently she works on a digital research portal highlighting the cultural transfers related to the emigration of the German rabbinate after 1933.

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