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

该项目将通过物质文化和批判性遗产研究的视角，探索战后时期<s:1>科学学院（1872-1942）的知识和文化遗产。人们关注的焦点是Hochschule图书馆的命运、意义、功能和影响，这是一个非凡的图书馆，由大约6万册藏书组成，是战前德国最全面的犹太图书馆之一。希特勒上台后，德国高等学校的活动就停止了。该研究所于1942年关闭，绝大多数学者和学生在大屠杀中丧生。通过将其转移并进一步发展到德国以外，Hochschule的遗产在各种困难下保持了活力。首先，它得到了那些设法逃离德国并在新的家园继续从事智力工作的杰出人物的支持。其次，它被保存在高等学校的图书馆里，尽管它被纳粹掠夺了。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。拟议的项目将追踪和绘制Hochschule的遗产，因为它是在新的环境中培育的。正是这种地理上的变化揭示了DFG优先方案框架的创新潜力，因为它以分散、破坏、破裂和连续性的概念为中心参考点，思考1945年后德国犹太文化遗产与其不断变化的空间框架之间的变化质量。物质文化方法将作为跨学科和国际研究团队的起点，其目标是：a)在德国犹太文化遗产的更广泛框架中确定Hochschule遗产的新方面，意义和影响；b)突出与社会，文化和思想史相关的客体和物质相关研究的潜力。为了实现这一目标，将创建两个研究模块。第一个模块从比较的角度出发，旨在阐明战后由以色列、美国和英国的知识分子和犹太机构所采取的维护高等学校遗产的举措。第二个模块遵循Hochschule图书馆中分散的书籍。它审查了他们向新目的地的转移，并讨论了影响他们在新环境中不断变化的地位的社会政治条件。

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.