German-Jewish Cultural Heritage abroad: The material and intellectual legacy of the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums

国外的德国犹太文化遗产：犹太教科学大学的物质和知识遗产

• 批准号: 497123879
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Yfaat Weiss
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Leibniz-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur - Simon Dubnow (DI)
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/497123879?language=en
• 关键词: German; Jewish; Cultural; Heritage; abroad

The proposed project will explore the intellectual and cultural legacy of the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums (1872-1942) in the postwar period through the lens of material culture and critical heritage studies. At the centre of attention is the fate, meaning, function and impact of the Hochschule’s library, a remarkable library collection which consisted of about 60,000 volumes and was among the most comprehensive Jewish libraries in prewar Germany. The activity of the Hochschule in Germany ceased in the wake of Hitler’s rise to power. The institute was closed in 1942, and the vast majority of its scholars and students perished in the Holocaust. By transferring and further developing it outside Germany, the Hochschule’s legacy was kept alive against all odds. Firstly, it was upheld by its prominent personalities who managed to flee Germany and continue their intellectual work in new homelands. Secondly, it was preserved in the Hochschule’s library, although it fell prey to the Nazi plunder. Parts of the collection were destroyed, other parts survived the war and were disseminated between numerous countries in the postwar period. The proposed project will trace and map the legacy of the Hochschule as it was fostered in its new surrounding. It is exactly this geographical shift that reveals the innovative potential for the framework of the DFG’s priority programme, since it takes notions of dispersion, destruction, rupture and continuity as central reference points to think about the shifting qualities of German-Jewish cultural heritage in relation to its changing spatial frameworks after 1945. Material culture approaches will serve as a starting point for the interdisciplinary and international team of researchers whose aim is a) to identify new facets of the Hochschule’s legacy, significance and impact in the broader framework of German-Jewish cultural heritage and b) to highlight the potential of object- and materiality-related research for social, cultural and intellectual history. In order to achieve this goal, two research modules will be created. The first module works in a comparative perspective and aims to illuminate postwar initiatives at sustaining the legacy of the Hochschule that were undertaken by intellectuals and Jewish institutions in Israel, the United States and Great Britain. The second module follows the dispersed books from the Hochschule’s library. It examines their transfer to new destinations and discusses the socio-political conditions that influenced their changing status in the new surroundings.

拟议的项目将通过物质文化和批判遗产研究的透镜探索战后时期犹太人科学学院（1872-1942年）的知识和文化遗产。在关注的中心是命运，意义，功能和影响的Hochschule的图书馆，一个显着的图书馆收藏，其中包括约60,000卷，是其中最全面的犹太图书馆在战前德国。在德国的Hochschule的活动在希特勒掌权后停止。该研究所于1942年关闭，其绝大多数学者和学生在大屠杀中丧生。通过转移和进一步发展它以外的德国，学院的遗产是保持活力，克服一切困难。首先，它得到了一些杰出人士的支持，他们设法逃离德国，在新的家园继续他们的知识工作。其次，它被保存在大学图书馆，虽然它成为纳粹掠夺的牺牲品。部分藏品被毁，其他部分在战争中幸存下来，并在战后时期在许多国家之间传播。拟议中的项目将跟踪和地图的Hochschule的遗产，因为它是在其新的环境培育。正是这种地理上的变化揭示了德国犹太文化遗产基金会优先项目框架的创新潜力，因为它将分散、破坏、断裂和连续性的概念作为中心参考点，来思考1945年后德国犹太文化遗产的变化与其不断变化的空间框架之间的关系。物质文化方法将作为跨学科和国际研究人员团队的起点，其目的是a）在德国犹太文化遗产的更广泛框架内确定Hochschule的遗产，意义和影响的新方面，以及B）突出对象和物质相关研究的潜力，为社会，文化和思想史。为了实现这一目标，将创建两个研究模块。第一个模块以比较的视角工作，旨在阐明战后的举措，以维持以色列，美国和英国的知识分子和犹太机构所承担的Hochschule的遗产。第二个模块遵循分散的书籍从Hochschule的图书馆。它审查了他们转移到新的目的地，并讨论了社会政治条件，影响他们在新的环境中不断变化的地位。