Cultural participation and public emancipation.On German-language Jewish publishing in the 19th century

由于18世纪末以来的社会变化和犹太人生活世界的日益世俗化，欧洲犹太人的阅读、语言和交流文化发生了重大变化。在中欧和东欧，德语是公民解放和文化适应的“帝国”语言，也是科学和学术的关键语言。在此背景下，拟议的研究项目旨在研究德语犹太出版社的欧洲和跨国结构，以及19世纪在这一背景下发展的阅读文化，通过对精选作品的解释和历史背景化，它们的传播和接受的棱镜来看。在方法上，对代表性出版社的文本分析调查及其历史分类将试图重建文化和政治变化以及文学和科学经典的相关形成。在这方面，该项目将探索从传统有序的生活世界的转变，以及参与德语文化的尝试-最初被认为是开放的，仍然是信息-在1871年德国国家和民族建立之前。为此，该项目着眼于19世纪30年代中期至1860年左右的Veit & comp出版社，1855年至1873年期间Institut zur Förderung der israelitischen Literature（犹太文学促进研究所）的概念和结构，以及19世纪下半叶出版社F. A. Brockhaus的犹太项目。除了对主题和具体文本的具体形式和设计进行分析外，该项目还调查了中央文学和科学学术出版物的生产和分销途径，以及它们在一般出版和图书销售贸易中的交流。通过对19世纪德语文学和犹太教科学语料库的部分重建，本书的主要目的是描述犹太人的知识和关于犹太人的知识在传播过程中的媒介和传播策略。这项研究力求从当时犹太人正在进行的政治和社会现代化进程的背景下，重新了解这些出版企业及其产品在欧洲德语区的活动和影响。

As a result of social changes since the end of the 18th century and the increasing secularization of Jewish life worlds, the cultures of reading, language and communication of the Jews in Europe underwent significant transformation. In Central and Eastern Europe, the German language functioned as an "imperial" language of civil emancipation and acculturation, and a key language of the sciences and scholarship. Against this backdrop, the proposed research project seeks to examine the European and transnational structure of the German-language Jewish publishing houses and the reading cultures developing in this context during the 19th century, seen through the prism of an interpretation and historical contextualization of selected works, their dissemination and reception. Methodologically, a text-analytical investigation of representative publishing houses and their historical classification will attempt to reconstruct the cultural and political changes and the associated formation of a literary and scientific canon. In this connection, the project will explore the transition from a traditionally ordered life world and the attempt to participate in German-speaking culture - initially perceived as open and still in formation - before the creation of the German state and nation in 1871. To this end, the project looks at the publishing house Veit & Comp. from the mid-1830s until ca. 1860, the concept and structure of the Institut zur Förderung der israelitischen Literatur (Institute for the Promotion of Jewish Literature) for the period between 1855 and 1873, and for the second half of the 19th century, the Judaica program of the publishing house F. A. Brockhaus. Along with an analysis of the themes and the specific forms and design of concrete texts, the project investigates the paths of production and distribution of central literary and scientific-scholarly publications, along with their exchange in the general publishing and book selling trade. A key aim is to describe - by means of a partial reconstruction of the corpus of the German-language literature and the Science of Judaism in the 19th century - the media and communication strategies in which knowledge by and knowledge about Jews was passed on. The study seeks to cast new light on the activity and impact of these publishing enterprises and their products in the German-speaking area of Europe, viewed against the backdrop of the ongoing processes of political and social modernization among Jewries in that period.