Dan Diner

In this essay, German-Israeli historian Dan Diner argues that the European consciousness uses America as a metaphor for the dark sides of modernism. He finds an especially aggressive variant of this negative judgement in Germany, the roots of which he traces back to the Romantic period.

An Essay on Anti-Americanism

America in the Eyes of the Germans

Feindbild Amerika. Über die Beständigkeit eines Ressentiments.

über den Stillstand in der islamischen Welt

Versiegelte Zeit

Soykırımın önemi ve etkisi üzerine

Karşıt hafızalar

»Dan Diner öffnet einem die Augen« NZZ Geschichte Dieses in der Presse gefeierte Buch erzählt die Anatomie des Zweiten Weltkrieges aus einer ungewohnten Perspektive: Im Zentrum des Geschehens steht das jüdische Palästina, gelegen am Schnittpunkt der europäisch-kontinentalen und außereuropäisch-kolonialen Wahrnehmung. Die Kernzeit dieser raumgeschichtlich angelegten Erzählung liegt zwischen dem Abessinien-Krieg 1935 und den Schlachten von El Alamein und Stalingrad 1942. Die Verschränkung zweier, für sich jeweils anderer Kriege – dem Zweiten Weltkrieg und dem Kampf um Palästina – konstruiert das eigentliche Drama der Erzählung und durchzieht als roter Faden das Buch.

Das jüdische Palästina und der Zweite Weltkrieg - 1935 – 1942

Ein anderer Krieg

1965 haben die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und der Staat Israel diplomatische Beziehungen aufgenommen – vorläufiger Endpunkt einer dramatischen Vorgeschichte, die im Luxemburger Abkommen zur sogenannten Wiedergutmachung von 1952 ihren Ausgang nahm. In dichter Erzählung sucht der Historiker Dan Diner die Tiefenschichten jener zwiespältigen deutsch-israelischen Annäherung auszuleuchten, vor allem die politisch-theologischen Aspekte der Diskussion auf israelischer Seite nur wenige Jahre nach dem Mord an den europäischen Juden. Es geht ihm dabei um Sprache und Habitus, Fluch und Bann, um Erinnern und Vergessen, Anerkennung und Nichtanerkennung – schließlich um die Entscheidung zwischen jüdischer Tradition und israelischer Staatsraison: Durfte man mit dem Land der Mörder in Verhandlungen treten und materielle Entschädigung annehmen?

Israels deutsche Frage

Rituelle Distanz

Geschichte deutet Gegenwart In den letzten zwanzig Jahren haben sich unsere Wirklichkeit und mit ihr die Koordinaten der Wahrnehmung massiv verändert. Der Zusammenbruch des Kommunismus, der Siegeszug neuer Technologien, das Auseinander driften des Westens, Zweifel an der Moderne, die Krise des Islam, das Aufkommen bis lang unbekannter Formen der Gewalt und das Weiterwirken althergebrachter Konflikte in neuer Konstellation markieren einen lang andauernden Übergang in eine schwer einsehbare Zukunft. In dieser Zwischenzeit plädiert Dan Diner für eine Wiedergewinnung historischer Urteilskraft. So gibt der Tiefenblick in die Geschichte den Verwerfungen der Gegenwart Kontur.

Gegenwartsfragen an die Geschichte

Zeitenschwelle

Die große Interpretation des 20. Jahrhunderts Dan Diner untersucht das politische Geschehen im 20. Jahrhundert auf zwei Ebenen, zum einen die Ebene der vordergründigen Konfrontationen von Werten und Ideologien, zum anderen die Ebene der traditionellen Konfliktlinien von Hegemonie und Nationalität, die bis ins 19. Jahrhundert zurückreichen. Das Hauptgewicht seiner Darstellung liegt auf der katastrophischen ersten Jahrhunderthälfte, wobei er die Ereignisse von der europäischen Peripherie her in den Blick nimmt, bislang verborgen gebliebene Beziehungen aufdeckt und neue Interpretationen vorschlägt.

Eine universalhistorische Deutung

Das Jahrhundert verstehen

Regina Randhofer

Ulrike Kramme

Ralf Balke

Markus Kirchhoff

Frauke von Rohden

Diana Steele

Stefan Hofmann

Jan Eike Dunkhase

Philipp Graf

Franck Gentry

Jessica Kley

Patricia C.. Sutcliffe

Andrea Kirchner

Christiana Papatola

Simon Mahling

Philipp von Wussow

David Schick (historien)

Marie-José Wijntjes

From Europe and America to the Middle East, North Africa and other non-European Jewish settlement areas, the 'Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture' covers the recent history of the Jewish people from 1750 through the 1950s. Originally published in German as the 'Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur' by J.B. Metzler Verlag (Stuttgart/Weimar) in 2011 the work includes approximately 800 entries that present the state of international research and reveal a complex portrait of Jewish life - illuminated by many maps and illustrations. Central themes convey information on topics such as autonomy, exile, emancipation, literature, liturgy, music, and science of Judaism. The encyclopedia provides knowledge in an overall context and offers academics and other interested readers new insights into Jewish history and culture.

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Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture

Proceedings of a conference on Kelsen and Schmitt held Jan. 5-6, 1997 in Tel Aviv and organized by the Max Planck Institute of European Legal History, Frankfurt/Main and the Institute for German History at Tel Aviv University.

A Juxtaposition

Hans Kelsen and Carl Schmitt

2003

Raphael Gross

Fritz Backhaus

Julia Franke

Stefan Paul-Jacobs

Lili Reyels

“It could have turned out differently” – from this perspective, the volume looks at fourteen caesuras in German history between 1848 and 1989. Here the real and crucial historical events are considered against the backdrop of other historical developments that were always possible – developments inherently present in decisive, often dramatic turning points. In this way new light is shed on what is already known, the essential openness of history made evident. What would have happened if the East German security services had violently turned on the demonstrators in 1989? If the USA had dropped atomic bombs on Germany in 1945? How would Germany have turned out if the effort to establish a constitutional monarchy had succeeded in 1848? This book accompanies the exhibition “Roads not Taken” in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, whose titel has a programmatic dimension: following a concept of the historian Dan Diner, he and the other authors focus on possible historical alternatives. What unexpected coincidences might have altered the real historical events? What role did the personalities involved play in their unfolding? Themes such as Germany’s Ostpolitik, the Berlin Wall, the Cold War, the Nazi rise to power, revolution and democratization in Germany are newly evaluated in this way.

Or: Things Could Have Turned Out Differently

Roads not Taken

A practical guide to every major aspect of technology management, merging theory and practice to create a systems approach integrating all technology-related activities from product to implementation. Offers sections on perspectives on management of technology; methodologies, tools and techniques for processes such as forecasting and developing RandD strategy; education and learning; the new-product process; and managing management of technology. Includes case studies. For scientists and engineers, their managers, and business executives. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Diner sets out to describe why the Arab world changes so slowly, in this controversial but refreshingly un-Anglo-Saxon search for answers to some outsized questions."--(Michael Cook, Princeton University).

Why the Muslim World Stood Still

Lost in the Sacred

Cataclysms is a profoundly original look at the last century. Approaching twentieth-century history from the periphery rather than the centers of decision-making, the virtual narrator sits perched on the legendary stairs of Odessa and watches as events between the Baltic and the Aegean pass in review, unfolding in space and time between 1917 and 1989, while evoking the nineteenth century as an interpretative backdrop. Influenced by continental historical, legal, and social thought, Dan Diner views the totality of world history evolving from an Eastern and Southeastern European angle. A work of great synthesis, Cataclysms chronicles twentieth century history as a “universal civil war” between a succession of conflicting dualisms such as freedom and equality, race and class, capitalism and communism, liberalism and fascism, East and West. Diner’s interpretation rotates around cataclysmic events in the transformation from multinational empires into nation states, accompanied by social revolution and “ethnic cleansing,” situating the Holocaust at the core of the century’s predicament. Unlike other Eurocentric interpretations of the last century, Diner also highlights the emerging pivotal importance of the United States and the impact of decolonization on the process of European integration.

A History of the Twentieth Century from Europe’s Edge

Cataclysms

Von Europa über Amerika bis zum Vorderen Orient, Nordafrika und anderen außereuropäischen jüdischen Siedlungsräumen erschließt die Enzyklopädie in sechs Bänden und einem Registerband die neuere Geschichte der Juden von 1750 bis 1950. Rund 800 Stichwörter präsentieren den Stand der internationalen Forschung und entwerfen ein vielschichtiges Porträt jüdischer Lebenswelten - illustriert durch viele Karten und Abbildungen. Übergreifende Informationen zu zentralen Themen vermitteln ca. 40 Schlüsselartikel zu Begriffen wie Autonomie, Exil, Emanzipation, Literatur, Liturgie, Musik oder Wissenschaft des Judentums. Zuverlässige Orientierung bei der Arbeit mit dem Nachschlagewerk bieten ausführliche Personen-, Orts- und Sachregister im siebten Band. Die Enzyklopädie stellt Wissen in einen Gesamtkontext und bietet Wissenschaftlern und Interessierten neue Einblicke in die jüdische Geschichte und Kultur. Ein herausragender Beitrag zum Verständnis des Judentums und der Moderne.

Band 4: Ly-Po

Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur

The major essays of Dan Diner, who is widely read and quoted in Germany and Israel, are finally collected in an English edition. They reflect the author’s belief that the Holocaust transcends traditional patterns of historical understanding and requires an epistemologically distinct approach. One can no longer assume that actors as well as historians are operating in the same conceptual universe, sharing the same criteria of rational discourse. This is particularly true of victims and perpetrators, whose memories shape the distortions of historical narrative in ways often diametrically opposed. The essays are divided into three groups. The first group talks about anti-Semitism in the context of the 1930s and the ideologies that drove the Nazi regime. The second group concentrates on the almost unbelievably different perceptions of the "Final Solution," with particularly illuminating discussions of the Judenrat, or Jewish council. The third group considers the Holocaust as the subject of narrative and historical memory. Diner focuses above all on perspectives: the very notions of rationality and irrationality are seen to be changeable, depending on who is applying them. And because neither rational nor irrational motives can be universally assigned to participants in the Holocaust, Diner proposes, from the perspective of the victims, the idea of the counterrational. His work is directed toward developing a theory of Holocaust historiography and offers, clearly and coherently, the highest level of reflection on these problems.

Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust

Beyond the Conceivable

Gotthart Wunberg

The myriad debates on restitution and memory, which have been going on in Europe for decades, indicate that World War II never ended. It is still very much with us, paradoxically re-invoked by the events of 1989/90 and the expansion of Europe to the east in the aftermath of the collapse of communism and economic globalization. The growing privatization and reprivatization in Eastern Europe revive pre-war memories that lay buried under the blanket of collectivization and nationalization of property after 1945. World War II did not only result in the death and destruction on a large scale but also in an a far-reaching revolution of existing property relations. This volume offers an assessment of the problematic of restitution and its close interconnection with the discourses of memory that have recently emerged.

Material Restoration in Europe

Restitution and Memory

Band 1: A–Cl

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