Forschungsbericht Judaistik

This article reviews monographs and collections of essays published between 2017 - 2019 on Jewish history, on the history of Jewish-Christian relations, on Jewish philosophy and on traditional and modern Jewish Bible exegesis. In the wake of the 500th anniversary celebrations of the Reformation in Germany (2017), the focus is especially on the history of the Jewish-Christian controversy in Central Europe in the 16th century and in the early modern period. Furthermore, publications on Jewish-Christian reconciliation in the German speaking countries after 1945 are reviewed. Special interest is given to books and essays focussing on the history of antisemitism and on contemporary phenomena of hatred towards the Jews.
STEPHAN CONERMANN (ed.), Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Middle Islamic Period. Jews in the Ayyubid and Mamluk Sultanates (1171 - 1517) (Mamluk Studies Volume 16). V&R unipress, Bonn University Press, 2017, 198 S. - MAGDALENA LUSZCZYNSKA, Politics of Polemics: Marcin Czechowic on the Jews. De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston 2018, 180 S. - FRANCIS R. NICOSIA (Hg.), Dokumente zur Geschichte des deutschen Zionismus 1933-1941 (Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts 77). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2018, 657 S. - ASSAF SHELLEG, Musikalische Grenzgänge. Europäisch-jüdische Kunstmusik und der Soundtrack der israelischen Geschichte. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Felix Kurz (Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts 78). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2017, 344 S. - JUDITH THOMANEK, Zeugnisse christlicher Zensur des frühen hebräischen Buchdrucks im Greifswalder Gustaf Dalman-Institut (Greifswalder Theologische Forschungen (GThF), Bd.