German City, Jewish Memory: The Story of Worms

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The following abbreviations are used in the notes. AZJ Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums BLB Bulletin of the Leo Baeck Institute CAHJP Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People CEH Contemporary European History HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual JJGL Jahrbuch für jüdische Geschichte und Literatur JjLG Jahrbuch der jüdisch literarischen Gesellschaft JQR Jewish Quarterly Review JTS JewishTheological Seminary JZfWJ Jüdische Zeitschrift fürWissenschaft und Leben LBIYB Leo Baeck InstituteYearbook MGWJ Monatsschrift für Geschichte undWissenschaft des Judentums PAAJR Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research REJ Revue des Études Juives ZGJD Zeitschrift für die Geschichte der Juden in Deutschland introduction 1. RolfVogel, ed., Der Deutsch-Israeltische Dialog. Dokumentation eines erregenden Kapitels Deutscher Außenpolitik, 9 vols. (Munich: K. G. Sauer, 1990), 3:1644. 2. See Etienne François and Hagen Schulze, eds., Deutsche Erinnerungsorte, 3 vols. (Munich: C. H. Beck, 2001), and Pierre Nora, ed., Les lieux de mémoire, 7 vols. (Paris: Gallimard, 1988–92). For succinct criticism, see Peter Carrier, “Places, Politics , and the Archiving of Contemporary Memory in Piere Nora’s Les lieux de mémoire ,” in Susannah Radstone, ed., Memory and Methodology (Oxford: Berg, 2000), 37, and Steven Englund, “The Ghost of Nation Past,” Journal of Modern History 64 (1992): 303 and 318. 3. Doreen Massey, “Places andTheir Past,” HistoryWorkshop Journal 39 (1995): 183. 4. Lucian Febvre, Le Rhin: Histoire, myths et réalités, ed. Peter Schöttler (Paris: Perrin, 1997), 59–64. 5. Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (New York: HarperCollins, 1973), 5. 6. James Clifford, Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999), 245, and Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic:Modernity and Double Consciousness (London:Verso, 1993), 111–45. 7. Clifford, Routes, 189–219. 8. Maurice Halbwachs, The Collective Memory, trans. Francis J. Ditter and Vida Yazdi Ditter (NewYork: Harper and Row, 1980), 33–34. Notes 214 ¦¦ Notes to Pages 1–11 9. Aleida Assmann, Erinnerungsräume. Formen und Wandlungen des kulturellen Gedächtnisses (Munich: C. H. Beck, 1999), 298–339. 10. Pierre Nora, “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Memoire,” Representations 26 (Spring 1989): 7–25. 11.Yosef HayimYerushalmi, “Exile and Expulsion in Jewish History,” in Benjamin R. Gampel, ed., Crisis and Creativity in the SephardicWorld, 1391–1648 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), 1–22. See also Arnold Eisen, Galut: Modern Jewish Reflection on Homelessness and Homecoming (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986), 50; David Myers, “‘The Blessing of Assimilation’ Reconsidered : An Inquiry into Jewish Cultural Studies,” in David Myers and William V. Rowe, eds., From Ghetto to Emancipation: Historical and Contemporary Reconsiderations of the Jewish Community (Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 1997), 17– 35; and Michael Galchinsky, “Scattered Seeds: A Dialogue of Diaspora,” in David Biale, Michael Galchinsky, and Susannah Heschel, eds., Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), 185–211. 12. On the nobility of memory, see Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory , ed. and trans. Lewis A. Coser (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), 134–35. 13. See Zali Gurevitch and Gideon Aran, “The Land of Israel: Myth and Phenomenon ,” in Jonathan Frankel, ed., Reshaping the Past: Jewish History and the Historian (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 195–210. This is an abridged version of the article that originally appeared as “‘Al ha-makom,” Alpayim 4 (1991): 9–44. 14. See Daniel and Jonathan Boyarin,“Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Jewish Identity,” Critical Inquiry 19 (1993): 693–725, and Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi, Booking Passage:Exile and Homecoming in the Modern Jewish Imagination (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000). 15. George Steiner, “Our Homeland, the Text,” Salmagundi 66 (1985): 4–25, and Ezrahi, Booking Passage, 17. For a succinct critical review of Ezrahi’s book, see Leah Garret, “TheWandering Jew Comes Home,” Prooftexts 20 (2000): 362–72. 16. See Susan Shapiro, “Ecriture judaique: Where Are the Jews in Western Discourse ?” in Angelika Bammer, ed., Displacement: Cultural Identities (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994), 182–203. 17. Genesis Rabbah 82:10 andTalmudYerushalmi, Shekalim 47a. 18. Heinrich Graetz, Die Konstruktion der jüdischen Geschichte, ed. Nils Roemer (Düsseldorf: Parerga, 2000), 47. 19. Karl Emil Franzos, “Denkmäler deutscher Juden,” AZJ 66 (1902): 463–65. 20. Nils Roemer, Between History and Faith: Rewriting the Past—Reshaping Jewish Cultures in Nineteenth-Century Germany (Madison:Wisconsin University Press, 2005), 129. 1. sacred realms 1. Michael Toch, “Dunkle Jahrhunderte” Gab es ein jüdisches Frühmittelalter? (Trier: Arye-Maimon-Institut für Geschichte der...