Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Jay Howard Geller and Leslie Morris
Part 1: To Germany, from Germany: The Promise of an Unpromised Land?
1. Love, Money, and Career in the Life of Rosa Luxemburg / Deborah Hertz
2. The “Triple Immersion”: A Singular Moment in Modern Jewish Intellectual History? / Alan T. Levenson
3. Yiddish Writers/German Models in the Early Twentieth Century / Jeffrey A. Grossman
4. The Symphony of a Great Heimat: Zionism as a Cure for Weimar Crisis in Lerski’s Avodah / Ofer Ashkenazi
Part 2: Germany, the Portable Homeland
5. “I Have Been a Stranger in a Foreign Land”: The Scholem Brothers and German-Jewish Émigré Identity / Jay Howard Geller
6. Lost in the Transnational: Photographic Initiatives of Walter and Helmut Gernsheim in Britain / Michael Berkowitz
7. Transnational Jewish Comedy: Sex and Politics in the Films of Ernst Lubitsch—From Berlin to Hollywood / Richard W. McCormick
8. America Abandoned: German-Jewish Visions of American Poverty in Serialized Novels by Joseph Roth, Sholem Asch, and Michael Gold / Kerry Wallach
9. “Irgendwo auf der Welt”: The Emigration of Jews from Nazi Germany as a Transnational Experience / Joachim Schlör
10. Transnational Jewish Refugee Stories: Displacement, Loss, and (Non)Restitution / Atina Grossmann
Part 3: A Masterable Past? German-Jewish Transnationalism in a Post-Holocaust Era
11. “Normalization and Its Discontents”: The Transnational Legacy of the Holocaust in Contemporary Germany / Karen Remmler
12. Between Memory and Normalcy: Synagogue Architecture in Postwar Germany / Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
13. Klezmer in the New Germany: History, Identity, and Memory / Raysh Weiss
14. (Trans)National Spaces: Jewish Sites in Contemporary Germany / Michael Meng
Contributors
Index