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Jewish Studies in Germany Today: Reflections from the Fulbright German Studies Seminar 1996

Jewish Studies in Germany Today: Reflections from the Fulbright German Studies Seminar 1996 Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. After studies in Heidelberg and Jerusalem he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and taught at Indiana and Brandeis Universities. Among his book publications are The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (1966) and After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany (1997, German edition, 1995). He is coauthor and assistant editor of the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern ,Times (1996-98). The Historical Background Gershom Scholem once remarked that one of the ironies of post-war German history was the fact that the establishment of Jewish Studies as an academic discipline at German universities-an objective for which German Jewish scholars had fought in vain for many decades in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-had been achieved at a time when there were hardly any Jews left to study or teach it. When Scholem left Germany in 1923 and settled in Jerusalem, there was no possibility for him to pursue a career in Jewish Studies at a German university, and his father could hardly be blamed for reprimanding young Gerhard in a rather unfriendly letter: "The wasted time is a pity; an http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

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Michael Brenner Michael Brenner is Professor of Jewish History and Culture at the University of Munich. After studies in Heidelberg and Jerusalem he received his Ph.D. from Columbia University and taught at Indiana and Brandeis Universities. Among his book publications are The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (1966) and After the Holocaust: Rebuilding Jewish Lives in Postwar Germany (1997, German edition, 1995). He is coauthor and assistant editor of the four-volume German-Jewish History in Modern ,Times (1996-98). The Historical Background Gershom Scholem once remarked that one of the ironies of post-war German history was the fact that the establishment of Jewish Studies as an academic discipline at German universities-an objective for which German Jewish scholars had fought in vain for many decades in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries-had been achieved at a time when there were hardly any Jews left to study or teach it. When Scholem left Germany in 1923 and settled in Jerusalem, there was no possibility for him to pursue a career in Jewish Studies at a German university, and his father could hardly be blamed for reprimanding young Gerhard in a rather unfriendly letter: "The wasted time is a pity; an

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Published: Oct 3, 1997

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