| Abstract | In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Dean Phillip Bell Dean Bell studied medieval and early modern European History at the University of Chicago and the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. He has taught at Berkeley, the Hebrew Theological College, and the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies. Currently he works and teaches at DePaul University. His research focuses on the late medieval and early modern history of the Jews in Germany. Footnotes 1. R. G. Collingwood, The Idea of History (Oxford, 1956), here at pp. 9-10. 2. Collingwood, The Idea of History, p. 213. 3. See, for example, though of vastly different scope and quality: Anson Rabinbach and Jack Zipes, editors, Germans and Jews since the Holocaust (New York, 1986); Dirk Blasius and Dan Diner, editors, Zerbrochene Geschichte: Leben und Selbstverständnis der Juden in Deutschland (Frankfurt am Main, 1991); Micha Brumlik, The Situation of the Jews in Germany Today (Bloomington, 1991); Sander L. Gilman and Karen Remmler, editors, Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany: Life and Literature Since 1989 (New York, 1994); Michael Cohn, The Jews in Germany 1945-1993: The Building of a Minority (London, 1994); Enzo Traverso, The Jews and Germany: From the "Judeo-German Symbiosis" to the Memory of Auschwitz (Lincoln, 1995); Wolfgang Benz, editor, Antisemitismus in Deutschland: Zur Aktualität eines Vorurteils (Munich, 1995); Günther B. Ginzel, editor, Der Anfang nach dem Ende: Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland 1945 bis heute (Düsseldorf, 1996); Julius H. Schoeps, editor, Ein Volk von Mördern? Die Dokumentation zur Goldhagen-Kontroverse um die Rolle der Deutschen im Holocaust (Hamburg, 1996); Y. Michal Bodemann, editor, Jews, Germans, Memory: Reconstructions of Jewish Life in Germany (Ann Arbor, 1996); Hermann Kurthen, Rainer Erb, and Werner Bergmann, editors, Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification (Oxford, 1997). For Europe more generally, with specific articles focusing on Germany, see: Jonathan Webber, editor, Jewish Identities in the New Europe (London, 1994)—particularly the essay by Julius Carlebach, "Jewish Identity in the Germany of a New Europe;" Bernard Wasserstein, Vanishing Diaspora: The Jews in Europe Since 1945 (Cambridge, Mass., 1996); several articles in Ulrich Wank, editor, The Resurgence of Right-Wing Radicalism in Germany: New Forms of an Old Phenomenon?, translated by James Knowlton (Atlantic Highlands, N.J., 1996). 4. See the following by Peter Schäfer: "Jewish Studies in Germany Today," Jewish Studies Quarterly 3 (1996): 146-61; "Die Entwicklung der Judaistik in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland seit 1945," in Die sogenannte Geisteswissenschaften: Innenansichten, edited by W. Prinz and P. Weingart (Frankfurt am Main, 1989): 350-65; "Judaistik—Jüdische Wissenschaft in Deutschland heute: Historische Identität und Nationalität," Saeculum 42 (1991): 199-216; "Jewish Studies in European Universities: Actual and Potential," in Teaching Jewish Civilization: A Global Approach to Higher Education, edited by M. Davies (New York, 1995): 77-85. 5. See, for example, Marion Kaplan, "What is 'Religion' among Jews in Contemporary Germany?," in Reemerging Jewish Culture: 77-112. 6. Y. Michal Bodemann, "A Reemergence of German Jewry?," in Reemerging Jewish Culture: 46-61, here at pp. 57-58. 7. See Henryk M. Broder, "Konjunktur der toten Juden," Der Spiegel 28 (1996). 8. Sander L. Gilman and Karen Remmler, "Introduction," in Reemerging Jewish Culture: 1-12, here at pp. 9-10. 9. Gilman and Remmler, Reemerging Jewish Culture, p. 1. 10. Jack Zipes, "The Contemporary German Fascination for Things Jewish: Toward a Jewish Minor Culture," in Reemerging Jewish Culture: 15-45, here at p. 16. 11. Zipes, "The Contemporary German Fascination," where Zipes cites Ian Buruma. 12. Katharina Ochse, "'What Could be More Fruitful, More Healing, More Purifying?' Representations of Jews in the German Media after 1989," in Reemerging Jewish Culture: 113-129, here at p. 117. 13. Ochse, "More Fruitful," pp. 117-18. 14. Ochse, "More Fruitful," pp. 121, 122. Copyright © 1997 Purdue University Project MUSE® - View Citation MLA APA Chicago Endnote Dean Phillip Bell. "Historical Memory and the State of Jewish Studies in Germany: Editor's Introduction." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 15.4 (1997): 1-6. Project MUSE. Web. 27 Jan. 2013. . Bell, D. P.(1997). Historical Memory and the State of Jewish Studies in Germany: Editor's Introduction. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal...
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