German-language Jewish Literature from the Enlightenment to the Present Day - New Approaches to Research in Paradigms

GJL项目旨在作为启蒙运动以来德语犹太文学在其整个传播领域的开创性和系统性展示，以文本的文化科学欣赏为基础，并通过接受美学、空间和媒体理论以及科学史等领域的方法进行扩展。它的目标是制作六本手册，由一个在线平台支持，包括额外的文件和有争议的辩论，这是过去250年来在GJL这样一个广泛而复杂的领域中典型的。这样一个雄心勃勃的项目需要国际合作，这种合作可以整合广泛的个人专家贡献，并依靠高度参与的咨询委员会。这将通过中欧三个（实际上是四个）著名的德语犹太文学学术研究中心的合作来实现：亚琛工业大学是德国唯一的欧洲犹太文学和文化史教授的所在地；巴塞尔大学是瑞士唯一一所教授德语犹太文学的大学；1998年至2003年间，克拉根福大学（领导机构）主办了奥地利和中欧犹太文学研究中心，并与萨尔茨堡等奥地利犹太研究中心建立了合作网络，过去几年与格拉茨建立了合作网络，格拉茨的犹太研究中心同时成为奥地利最重要和最富有成效的研究中心之一。此外，指定的机构还建立了额外的国家和国际合作，可以为手头的项目提供宝贵的动力。出发点在于这样一种假设，即犹太人的思想和德语犹太文学通过提供对话和推动力，一直对德语区的艺术文学和科学发展作出重要贡献。因此，民族、身份、文化和宗教等传统标准被推迟，犹太和非犹太文化和文学的统一、册封和二元独特性的尝试也被推迟，所有这些都有利于更开放的范式方法。这些范例也与参与大学及其各自项目负责人的研究专长相对应：传统与信仰以及思想史（主要关注巴塞尔大学），语言文化以及知识和学习（主要关注亚琛大学），空间和景观以及相互关系（主要关注克拉根福大学/格拉茨大学犹太研究中心）。该项目的设计促进了与其他学科的联系，并使与感兴趣的研究团体的创新对话成为可能。

The project GJL is intended as a seminal and systematic presentation of German-language Jewish literature since the Enlightenment in its entire dissemination area, based on a cultural sciences appreciation of texts, and expanded by approaches from the areas of reception aesthetics, space and media theory, as well as the history of science. It aims to produce six handbooks supported by an online platform including additional documents and controversial debates as typically in such a broad and complex field as GJL throughout the last 250 years. Such an ambitious project necessitates international cooperation, which can integrate a broad range of individual expert contributions and count on a highly engaged advisory board. This will be achieved through the cooperation of three (in reality: four) renowned centres of academic research regarding German-language Jewish literature in Central Europe: The RWTH Aachen is home to the only chair for European Jewish Literary and Cultural History in Germany; the University of Basel is the only place in Switzerland where German-language Jewish literature is taught; between 1998 and 2003 the University of Klagenfurt (Lead institution) hosted a research centre for Austrian and Middle European Jewish literature and established a network of cooperations with other Austrian Centres of Jewish Studies like Salzburg, and in the past few years with Graz, where the Centre for Jewish Studies in the meantime has become one of the most important and productive in Austria. Furthermore the named institutions have established additional national and international cooperations which can provide valuable impulses for the project at hand. The starting point lies in the assumption that Jewish thinking and German-language Jewish literature has always given important contributions to artistic-literary and scientific developments in the German-speaking area, by providing dialogues and impulses. Traditional criteria such as nation, identity, culture, and religion are thus deferred, as are attempts at unity, canonization, and binary distinctiveness of Jewish and non-Jewish culture and literature, all in favour of more open approaches in paradigms. These paradigms also correspond to the research expertise at the participating universities and their respective project leaders: Tradition and Faith as well as Thinking History (main focus University of Basel), Cultures of Language as well as Knowledge and Learning (main focus University of Aachen), Spaces and Landscapes, and Interrelationships (main focus University of Klagenfurt / Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Graz). The design of this project promotes the networking with other disciplines and enables an innovative dialogue with the interested research community.