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The Rosenzweig Center's Publications

The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Center promotes the publication of original and groundbreaking works in the field of German-Jewish studies. The two main platforms in which fellows and young scholars can publish the results of their research are the Naharaim journal and Makom book series.

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The journal Naharaim was founded by the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Centre at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2007 and appears bi-annually. It is a peer-reviewed journal and publishes the latest research on philosophical, literary and historical aspects of German-Jewish culture. The articles appear in both German and English. 

Naharaim (Hebrew for Zweistromland, a land that lies between two rivers) presents biographical portraits and research on the intellectual history of German-speaking Jewry. The journal explores paradigmatic thinkers within German-Jewish modernism since the Emancipation; traces the outlines of the German-Jewish experience both in the context of general Jewish issues and beyond the specific Jewish horizon; discusses the phenomenon of secularisation as a process of transformation of religious content taking place within the framework of a secular worldview; and critically engages with theoretical debates in France, North America and Germany that address topics from past and contemporary Jewish thought.

Managing Editor: Levy, Amit
Ed. by Pollock, Benjamin / Weidner, Daniel / Wiese, Christian

Submission of manuscripts:

naharaim@mail.huji.ac.il

Guidelines for manuscripts:

Style Sheet
 

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Makom is a book series published by Fink Verlag (Paderborn). The name ‘Makom’ is the Hebrew term for ‘place’ or ‘space’, but it also designates God, whose spatial presence is affirmed yet at the same time questioned. Makom hosts studies by the Center's affiliated researches, concentrating on modern German-Jewish literature and philosophy. 

Publications

Naharaim
Noor A ed. Naharaim. Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History. 2012 ;6(1).
Naharaim
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Editorial
Ashraf Noor

On Franz Rosenzweig and His Familiarity with Kabbala Literature
Gershom Scholem 

Gershom Scholem on Franz Rosenzweig and the Kabbalah. Introduction to the Text
Enrico Lucca

Confronting Kulturpolitik: Testimonialism, Narrative Transgression, and Jewish Historiography in Jurek Becker's Jakob der Lügner (1969)
Grant Henley 

Brunngasse 8
Silvana Lattmann

"Missing": Silvana Lattmann on Memory and Recollection
Ashraf Noor

Framing Absence – Reframing Memory: Spatialities of Holocaust and World War II Memory in Contemporary Poland
Zuzanna Dziuban

Über die Unfähigkeit zu denken: Hannah Arendts Eichmann-Deutung
Jeffrey Andrew Barash

Ludwig Strauss: Polyglossia and Parody in Palestine
Lina Barouch 

Jewish Identity and Multilingualism in Rafael Seligmann’s Fiction
Bernd Csitkovics

Naharaim
Noor A ed. Naharaim. Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History [Internet]. 2011 ;5(1-2). Available from: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/naha.2011.5.issue-1-2/issue-files/naha.2011.5.issue-1-2.xml Publisher's Version
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Editorial
Ashraf Noor

On History and Philosophy of History
Gershom Scholem

Between History and Philosophy of History. Comments on An Unpublished Document by Gershom Scholem
Enrico Lucca

Süßkind von Trimberg: An Early Paradigm of the German-Jewish Question
Luis S. Krausz

Der Stern, im Licht der Offenbarung betrachtet – zur geometrischen Konstruktion des Sterns der Erlösung
Andreas Losch

Jüdisches Sprachdenken III

Grammar of Messianic Times
Donatella Ester di Cesare and Ashraf Noor

Hebräische Elemente und ihre Wege in die deutsche Sprache
Mohammad Al Qar'a, Mahmoud Amarat and Hassan A. Hassan

Das geflügelte Wort: Franz Rosenzweig as Post-Goethekenner
Benjamin E. Sax

Dichterische Politik? Versuch über einen Satz Walter Benjamins
Irving Wohlfarth

Naharaim
Noor A ed. Naharaim. Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History [Internet]. 2011 ;4(1). Available from: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/naha.2011.4.issue-1/issue-files/naha.2011.4.issue-1.xml Publisher's Version
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Editorial
Ashraf Noor

Die Bibel – offen und geschlossen
Gabriel Josipovici

Lebendige Räume
Gabriel Josipovici

Ein neues Lied singen
Gabriel Josipovici

The Human Person: Vulnerability and Responsiveness. Reflections on Human Dignity, Religio and the Other's Voice
Burkhard Liebsch

The Remedy to Linguistic Skepticism. Judaism as a Language of Action
Gideon Freudenthal

Resonierende lingua franca. Eine Skizze zu Heines (lyrischem) Sprachdenken
Lorenz Wesemann

Sprachdenken zwischen Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard und Rosenzweig. Zum Vor- und Nachleben des Sprachdenkens in hermeneutischer Perspektive
Philipp Stoellger

Die Kollektivität der inneren Sprachform als kulturtheoretische Denkform – bei Ernst Cassirer, Moritz Lazarus u.a.
Jörn Bohr

A Wound without Pain: Freud on Aphasia
Ilit Ferber

Naharaim
Noor A ed. Naharaim. Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History [Internet]. 2011 ;4(2). Available from: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/naha.2011.4.issue-2/issue-files/naha.2011.4.issue-2.xml Publisher's Version
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Editorial
Ashraf Noor

Waiting for a Storm: Theology and the Narrative of Exception
György Tatár

The Mandarins of Jerusalem
Paul Mendes-Flohr

Martin Buber and the Anarchic Utopia of Community
Donatella Ester di Cesare

A Stranger in Berlin. Moyshe Kulbak and Yiddish Poetry in the Weimar Republic
Rachel Seelig

Unheimliche Heimat. Kafka, Freud und die Frage der Rückkehr in W. G. Sebalds "Schwindel. Gefühle"
Almut Laufer

Die Sprachen der Literatur. Zur Erfindung der "jüdischen Literatur" im 19. Jahrhundert
Andreas B. Klicher

Übersetzungen. Sprache bei Zunz, Graetz bis hin zu Ludwig Feuchtwanger
Thomas Meyer

Seminar. Freud – "Negation"
Stéphane Mosès

Naharaim
Noor A ed. Naharaim. Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History [Internet]. 2009 ;3(2). Available from: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/naha.2009.3.issue-2/issue-files/naha.2009.3.issue-2.xml Publisher's Version
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Editorial
Ashraf Noor

Heinrich Heine: A Better Song
Jakob Hessing

Betraying Images: Paul Celan's Translation of Charles Baudelaire's “La mort des pauvres”
Michael Schlie

Paideia. Hannah Arendt on Socrates and Critical Thought
Ilaria Possenti

Die Einsamkeit Israels zwischen Gedächtnis und Vergessen. Alain Finkielkraut und Benny Lévy zu Gedächtnis, Säkularisierung und Antisemitismus
Jens Mattern

On the Epistemological Premises of Psychoanalysis
Stéphane Mosès

At the Heart of a Chiasm Derrida and Lévinas, Lévinas and Derrida
Stéphane Mosès

Three Forms of Peace in the Jewish Tradition
Stéphane Mosès

The Question of Language and the Affinities between Philosophy and Literature in Stéphane Mosès' Critical Writings
Ashraf Noor

Instruction and Entertainment
Luis S. Krausz

Naharaim
Noor A ed. Naharaim. Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History [Internet]. 2009 ;3(1). Available from: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/naha.2009.3.issue-1/issue-files/naha.2009.3.issue-1.xml Publisher's Version
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Editorial
Ashraf Noor

Die Vertreibung der Frankfurter und Wormser Juden im frühen 17. Jahrundert aus der Sicht des Zeitzeugen Nahman Puch. Edition und Kommentar eines jiddischen Liedes
Heidi Stern

Die Adäquatheit des Zeugens. Über Agamben und Lévinas
Dorothee Gelhard

"Ich weiß nicht": Karl Kraus, der Fall Heine und der sogenannte Philosemitismus
Claudia Sonino

Imaginary Citizenships
Claudio Luzzati

Jewish Philosophy or “Philosophy among the Jews”? Salomon Munk (1803–1867) and the Reception of Judeo-Arabic Texts in the 19th Century
Chiara Adorisio

Sprachdenken im Kontext von Moritz Lazarus' "Völkerpsychologie"
Sabine Sander

Immigration, Identity, and Change: Émigré Composers of the Nazi Period and Their Perceptions of Stylistic Transformation in their Creative Work
Irit Youngerman

Naharaim
Noor A ed. Naharaim. Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History [Internet]. 2008 ;2(2). Available from: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/naha.2008.2.issue-2/issue-files/naha.2008.2.issue-2.xml Publisher's Version
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Editorial
Ashraf Noor

Concepts of Alterity and Liminality in Hermann Cohen's Writings
Sebastian Wogenstein

Rosenzweigs Konzept der Offenbarung und die Zeichen der Liebe
Alexander Ari Joskowicz

Philosophical Present and Responsible Present. Comments on Emmanuel Lévinas's Philosophy of Time
Eli Schonefeld

Politisch-philosophische Implikationen von Wassili Grossmans Leben und Schicksal
Burkhard Liebsch

Unvereinbare Zwienatur(en)? Das Problem der Dualität bei Martin Buber und Gershom Scholem und ihre Einstellung zum Hebräischen und Deutschen bis 1918
Arndt Kremer

Freud und Paulus. Der versteckte Familienroman der Psychoanalyse
Hanswalter Stäubli

A Travel Guide to Palestine. Walter Benjamin in Israel
Vivian Liska, Tamara Eisenberg

Naharaim
Noor A ed. Naharaim. Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History [Internet]. 2008 ;2(1). Available from: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/naha.2008.2.issue-1/issue-files/naha.2008.2.issue-1.xml Publisher's Version
Naharaim
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Editorial
Ashraf Noor

Consideration and Reclamation: Arendt and Ricœur on Judgment
Ashraf Noor

Discussion

Zeugnis und Bezeugung. Überlegungen und Fragen zur Verbindung von philosophischem und religiösem Diskurs im Denken Paul Ricœurs
Jens Mattern

Comments on Philosophy, Religion, and Forgiveness
Paul Ricœurs

Reading the Beyond. Lévinas – Literature, Holiness, and Politics
Philipp Theisohn

Iconology and Iconicity. Towards an Iconic History of Figures, Between Erwin Panofsky and Jean-Luc Marion
Adi Efal

Zu Walter Benjamins Tod. Legenden, Ungewissheiten, dialektische Bilder
Nathalie Raoux, Irving Wohlfarth

Naharaim
Noor A ed. Naharaim. Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History [Internet]. 2008 ;2(2). Available from: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/naha.2008.1.issue-2/issue-files/naha.2008.1.issue-2.xml Publisher's Version
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In Memoriam Stéphane Mosès

 

Editorial
Ashraf Noor

Weiße Stellen und schwarze Löcher: Vergangenheit und Gegenwart in Ostgalizien
Omer Bartov

Epistemics of the Holocaust Considering the Question of "Why?" and of "How?"
Dan Diner

La mémoire, l'histore, l'oubli: A Symposium with Paul Ricœur. Part I: Prefatory Remarks
Ashraf Noor

Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Remembrance
Jeffrey Andrew Barash

Concepts of Time and Space in Phenomenology
Michael Roubach

"Aber wie soll ich denn aus dem Jiddischen übersetzen?": Gershom Scholem and the Problem of Translating Yiddish
David Groiser

Hannah Arendt on Action and Exile
Julia Matveev

Zum Briefwechsel von Leo Löwenthal und Siegfried Kracauer
Philipp von Wussow

Naharaim
Noor A ed. Naharaim. Journal of German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History [Internet]. 2007 ;1(1). Available from: https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/naha.2007.1.issue-1/issue-files/naha.2007.1.issue-1.xml Publisher's Version
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Forward
Paul Mendes-Flohr

Editorial
Ashraf Noor

The Bible and the Caesurae of Time
Stéphane Mosès

The Secularisation of Jewish Cultural Memory: Epistemological and Hermeneutical Reflections
Paul Mendes-Flohr

Memory and the Other
Gabriel Motzkin

Walter Benjamin: Time and Justice
Ashraf Noor

The Theopolitical Foundations of Strauss's Criticism of Modernity
Matan Oram

Unde Malum? Zu einer kritischen Revision von Hans Blumenbergs Legitimität der Neuzeit
Christoph Schmidt

Textum: Intertextualität in Yoel Hoffmanns. Christus der Fische
Karin Neuburger

"Eine Karikatur der Theorie". Zur neueren Adorno-Biographik
Philipp von Wussow

Die Hannah Arendt-Rezeption im russischsprachigen Raum. Michael Hefetz: Hannah Arendt – eine Beurteilung des 20. Jahrhunderts
Julia Matveev