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Rezension folgender Werke: Ben Barkow, Raphael Gross, Michael Lenarz (Hg.): Novemberpogrom 1938. Die Augenzeugenberichte der Wiener Library London. Frankfurt am Main: Jüdischer Verlag 2008, 933 S., ISBN: 978-3-633-54233-8, EUR 39,80. Ramona Bräu, Thomas Wenzel: „ausgebrannt, ausgeplündert, ausgestoßen“. Die Pogrome gegen die jüdischen Bürger Thüringens im November 1938. Erfurt: Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Thüringen 2008, 192 S., ISBN: 978-3-937967-41-7, kostenlos. „Reichskristallnacht“ – der Pogrom im November 1938 in Stuttgart. Ein Quellen- und Arbeitsbuch für den Geschichtsunterricht. Bearb. v. Michael Hoffmann, Jürgen Lotterer und Roland Müller. Stuttgart: Stadtarchiv Stuttgart 2008, 50 S., kostenlos. Andreas Nachama, Uwe Neumärker, Hermann Simon (Hg.): „Es brennt!“ Antijüdischer Terror im November 1938. Berlin: Stiftung Topographie des Terrors 2008, 167 S., ISBN: 978-3-9811677-4-0, EUR 15,00. Mitchell G. Bard: 48 Hours of Kristallnacht. Night of Destruction, Dawn of the Holocaust. An Oral History. Guilford, Connecticut: The Lyons Press 2008, 240 S., ISBN: 978-1-59921-445-0, $ 19,95. Martin Ruch: Das Novemberpogrom 1938 und der Synagogenprozess 1948 in Offenburg. Verfolgte berichten, Täter stehen vor Gericht. Norderstedt: Books on Demand 2008, 120 S., ISBN: 978-3-8370-5338-8, EUR 14,80. Erhard Roy Wiehn: Zum Reichspogrom 1938. Die Ereignisse in Konstanz 70 Jahre danach zum Gedenken. Konstanz: Hartung-Gorre Verlag 2008, 155 S., ISBN 3-86628-165-X, EUR 14,80. Arbeitskreis der NS-Gedenkstätten NRW (Hg.): Gewalt in der Region. Der Novemberpogrom 1938 in Rheinland und Westfalen. Düsseldorf u.a.: Landeszentrale für politische Bildung NRW 2008, 135 S., ISBN: 3-9807674-8-5, EUR 5,00. Hans D. Arntz: „Reichskristallnacht“. Der Novemberpogrom 1938 auf dem Lande – Gerichtsakten und Zeugenaussagen am Beispiel der Eifel und Voreifel. Aachen: Helios Verlag 2008, 196 S., ISBN: 978-3-938208-69-4, EUR 29,90. Bastian Fleermann, Angela Genger (Hg.): Novemberpogrom 1938 in Düsseldorf. Essen: Klartext Verlag 2008, 443 S., ISBN: 978-3-8375-0085-1, EUR 22,95. Sven F. Kellerhoff: „Kristallnacht“. Der Novemberpogrom 1938 und die Berliner Juden. Berlin: Berlin Story Verlag 2008, 95 S., ISBN: 978-3-929829-66-2, EUR 9,80. Heft
I. Introduction The early 1970s in the United States was a turbulent, rebellious period – in which all questions were legitimate, certainly on the college campus. As the rabbinic advisor to the Orthodox minyan at Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, I found myself challenged repeatedly by congregants, colleagues and friends regarding the status of women in Jewish law and ritual. This required me, in turn, to search for honest and appropriate explanations and rationale. This quest has continued to preoccupy me for more than three decades. When I first embarked on this endeavor, I did so with a sense of confidence and commitment. As a “Halakhic Feminist,” I have searched for ways to increase women’s involvement in Jewish spiritual and ritual life, and I remain confident in the inherent viability of the halakhic process. But through it all, my highest commitment has been to the integrity of Halakhah. I firmly believe that without Halakhah as our anchor, we would rapidly lose our direction and raison d’etre.Because of these sensitivities, I picked up Tamar Ross’s recent book “Expanding the Palace of Torah: Orthodoxy and Feminism” with a great deal of excitement and anticipation. The author comes with wonderful credentials: she is an esteemed professor of philosophy, a traditional Jewess, and a highly respected Orthodox feminist. Academically, this extremely analytical, insightful, erudite and welldocumented book turned out to be highly challenging because of its interdisciplinary nature, saturated with new jargon and concepts. But it was by no means disappointing. Indeed, more than 300 pages later, I found myself intellectually edified and stimulated by my newfound understanding of the history, philosophy and theology of feminism. Prof. Ross is quite effective at outlining many of the troubling issues concerning the status of women in Jewish law – issues that every thinking, committed Jew should ponder. As a result, this work has received generally laudatory reviews. Despite all the above, I found the book very unsettling. In her preface (p. xvii), the author indicates that, in addition to scholars of religion and feminism, this book is directed to two other audiences. The first group includes those who have been sensitized by feminism but are desirous of keeping their grip on tradition. The second audience consists of those who are firmly Orthodox, but would like to gain greater insight into what the feminist fuss is all about.5 In short, as the title ofthe book suggests, Prof. Ross attempts to span the divide between Orthodoxy and feminism. Unfortunately, I do not believe she has succeeded in this task, and this essay is an attempt to delineate why.
Rezension zu Gabriele von Glasenapp, Hans Otto Horch: Ghettoliteratur. Eine Dokumentation zur deutsch-jüdischen Literaturgeschichte des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts. Teil I: Rezeptionsdokumente (1), Rezeptionsdokumente (2), Teil II: Autoren und Werke der Ghettoliteratur. Conditio Judaica 53-55. Studien und Quellen zur deutsch-jüdischen Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte. Hg. von Hans Otto Horch in Verbindung mit Alfred Bodenheimer, Mark H. Gelber und Jakob Hessing. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2005, XV, 1162 Seiten.