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440 p., many ill. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slightly rubbed jacket and binding, overally very good and clean. / Leicht beriebener Umschlag und Einband, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - This pictorial documentation is the life's work of Nachum Tim Gidal. In his quest for the history of his people, he combines the objective realism of the photographic reporter with personal commitment. For this is also his own history. Through pictures and commentary Gidal gives an account of Jewish culture and of the German Jews. He himself was a Jew from the Munich of Karl Valentin - on friendly terms with the famous satirist, and speaking the same Munich dialect - and a Jew whose forebears had come from Lithuania and who never disowned his Eastern Jewish origins. He joined the Zionist youth movement at an early age. Other formative influences were Munich and the southern Bavarian landscape, German and Yiddish folk-songs, poets such as Jizchak Leib Perez and Stefan George, and the religious philosophers Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem. In assembling this pictorial record of the lives of German Jews, he is also revisiting a Germany that - like German Jewry itself - disappeared in the Hitler era. In these pictures Gidal shows us a forgotten German-Jewish past: the beginnings of Jewish life in Germany, and the flowering of Jewish culture which took place in the Middle Ages despite all the persecutions; the lives of rich Jews and poor Jews; the ever-resurgent hopes of the coming of the Messiah; the festivals and feast-days; the struggle for equal civil rights; the contribution made by Jews to German culture. German and Jewish elements, however distinct in themselves, are almost inextricably mingled. So dearly did these people love their German homeland that many risked their lives for it - notably the Jews from Eastern Europe, whose Yiddish speech kept alive the medieval German of their ancestors, and for whom Germany was the land of Kant, Schiller and Goethe. And this despite the fact that being a Jew could still give rise, directly or indirectly, to insults and humiliations - even in times of supposed equality. Gidal conceals nothing and glosses over nothing. His book therefore signals hope for the future, since honesty, mutual knowledge, and acceptance of otherness are the essential basis for humane coexistence, not least between different peoples and religious communities. - Professor Nachum Tim Gidal was bom in 1909 in Munich and died in 1996 in Jerusalem. After studying history, art history, and political economy at the universities of Munich, Berlin, and Basle he became a photographic reporter, one of the great pioneers of modern photo-journalism. "Photoreportage and the Press" was the subject of his doctoral thesis. He worked for, amongst others, the Münchner lllustrierte Presse (1929-1933), the London Picture Post (1938-1940), and New York s Life magazine. From 1955 to 1958 he lectured at the New School for Social Research in New York on the history and sociology of visual communication, and from 1971 onwards he taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. In 1980 he was awarded the Israel Museum's Kavlin Prize, and in 1983 the Erich Salomon Prize of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fotografie. Gidal was a member of the Royal Photographic Society in London, and a corresponding member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fotografie. ISBN 9783829004916 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1904 Original cloth with dust jacket. English version of "Die Juden in Deutschland von der Römerzeit bis zur Weimarer Republik". Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1174098
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