Social Responsibility in German-Jewish Life: Traditions and Places as Jewish Heritage?

欧洲背景下的犹太文化遗产是一个多方面的实体。它涵盖了整个欧洲犹太人的有形和无形遗产。它是由犹太男女的知识和技能维持的，并代代相传；同时，它也受到一个永久性的变化过程的影响。它还包括社会领域。鉴于当今欧洲融合和不断增加的文化、社会和宗教多样性，犹太人和非犹太人都面临着保存和发展这一遗产的挑战，从而有助于宽容和身份认同的形成。该项目调查了19至21世纪德国的犹太人福利是如何在不同的时间和空间背景下被感知和传递的。中心问题是，各个社会以及犹太机构如何处理与社会领域有关的犹太遗产和纪念文化。在多大程度上，以什么方式，“社会”已经成为公认的文化遗产的一部分？通过对具体的犹太文化遗产“犹太福利和现代犹太社会工作”如何处理的研究，可以得出什么结论？该项目的目的是利用由此产生的见解，就未来如何保存、发展和培养犹太社会工作的文化遗产提出建议。利用历史学、社会科学和教育学的跨学科方法，以及广泛的方法(访谈、话语和网络分析以及对文件和媒体的研究)，该项目将确保犹太遗产、记忆文化、社会科学和(社会)教学观点都得到考虑。该研究计划由三个模块组成：(1)犹太福利和社会工作场所，(2)社会场所行动者，(3)1945年以来的犹太社会工作。模块1考察了犹太人福利和社会工作的示范场所及其在不同社会背景下的论述。单元2侧重于讨论参与在各自地方建立和发展社会机构的各种行为者。它考察了这些演员在多大程度上获得了追溯性认可，以及为什么没有获得追溯性认可。多样性和性别方面将在这里高度相关。模块3将探讨1945年后人们对犹太机构及其社会工作的看法。该中心成立于1917年，1951年重新设立，其重点是设在德国的犹太人中央福利中心(ZWST，或在德国的犹太人中央福利办公室)，它将基于这样一种观察，即对1945年以来所做工作的学术论述只在有限的程度上发生。这将对整个社会文化遗产的处理方式产生的影响在这里进行审查。这将反馈到该项目的总体目标中。

Jewish cultural heritage in a European context is a multifaceted entity. It encompasses the entire heritage of European Jewries, tangible and intangible. It is sustained by the knowledge and skills of Jewish men and women and passed on from generation to generation; at the same time, it is subject to a permanent process of change. It also includes the social sphere. In view of the combination of convergence and increasing cultural, social and religious diversity that is today’s Europe, both Jews and non-Jews face the challenge of preserving and developing this heritage, thus contributing to both tolerance and identity formation.The project investigates how nineteenth- through twenty-first-century Jewish welfare in Germany was and is perceived and transmitted in different temporal and spatial contexts. The central question is how the respective societies, as well as Jewish institutions, have dealt with Jewish Heritage and memorial culture related to the social sphere. To what extent, and in what ways, has “the social” become part of a recognized cultural heritage? What are the conclusions that can be derived from a study of how the specific Jewish cultural heritage “Jewish Welfare and Modern Jewish Social Work” has been handled? The aim of the project is to use the resulting insights to formulate recommendations as to how the cultural heritage of Jewish social work can be preserved, developed, and cultivated in the future.Using interdisciplinary approaches derived from history, the social sciences, and education, as well as a broad variety of methods (interviews, discourse and network analysis alongside the study of documents and media), the project will ensure that Jewish Heritage, remembrance culture, social science and (social-)pedagogical perspectives are all taken into account. The research program is made up of three modules: (1) Places of Jewish Welfare and Social Work, (2) Actors in Social Places, and (3) Jewish Social Work since 1945. Module 1 examines exemplary places of Jewish welfare and social work and their discursivation in different social contexts. Module 2 focuses on the discourse regarding the various actors involved in the establishment and development of social institutions in the respective places. It examines to what extent, and why, these actors did or did not gain retrospective recognition for their work. Diversity and gender aspects will be highly relevant here. Module 3 will explore the perception of Jewish institutions and their social work after 1945. Focusing on the Zentralwohlfahrtsstelle der Juden in Deutschland (ZWST, or Central Welfare Office of the Jews in Germany), founded in 1917 and re-established in 1951, it will be based on the observation that a scholarly discursivation of the work done since 1945 has taken place only to a limited extent. The effect this has had on the way the socio-cultural heritage as a whole has been handled will be examined here. This will feed back into the project’s overall aims.