Publications
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Performing Modernism
(2022)
The book examines the reach of modernism in design and performance in Romania between the two world wars, focusing on remarkable Jewish avant-garde artists located in Bucharest. Based on extensive new research, it shows ...
Exiled in East Germany
(2024)
Recounting the life stories of Malawian and South African freedom fighters living in exile in East Germany during the Cold War, this study unfolds multiple entanglements between the “Second” and “Third” worlds from the ...
Rente im Dritten Reich Die Reichsversicherungsanstalt für Angestellte 1933 bis 1945
(2019)
Scant research attention has addressed the role, significance, and function of the RfA in the maintenance and reformulation of the retirement insurance system in the Nazi society transformed by the ideology of the ...
Chapter Toward a Migratory Turn
(2019)
How can we think of art history as a discipline that moves process-based, performative, and cultural migratory movement to the center of its theoretical and methodical analyses? With contributions from internationally ...
Dante’s Performance
(2024)
Dante’s Commedia abounds with scenes of liturgical drama, sacred songs, and dance performance. The sacred poem represents the afterlife with great poetic force thanks to the richness of its performed theology. Dante’s ...
Elective Affinities
(2024)
This volume explores the historical, socio-political, transcultural, and intertextual connections between East Central Europe and Latin America from the nineteenth century to the present. The contributions from different ...
“Cultures of Airborne Diseases”, Special Issue of Open Cultural Studies
(2024)
Examining airborne diseases from the perspectives of literary studies, cultural studies, environmental humanities, and health humanities, among other fields, “Cultures of Airborne Diseases” platforms significant discourse ...
Manual der Koloproktologie, Band 1
(2019)
This is the standard textbook for every medical or surgical coloproctologist from the German Society for Coloproctology. In two volumes, it covers the full anatomy of the colon from the ileocecal valve to the anus. Each ...
Judentum und Arbeiterbewegung
(2018)
Before the Second World War, individuals of Jewish origin played a disproportionate part in the labor movement, which was a central current in the struggles for emancipation. Especially in Eastern Europe, there were Jewish ...
Judentum und Arbeiterbewegung
(2018)
Before the Second World War, individuals of Jewish origin played a disproportionate part in the labor movement, which was a central current in the struggles for emancipation. Especially in Eastern Europe, there were Jewish ...
Chapter On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals
(2015)
Parenthetical comment and reporting clauses exhibit various interesting properties, which are shown to be related. Three different word order pat-terns are attested in Dutch and German: apparent V1, V2 and V-final; the ...
Chapter On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals
(2015)
Parenthetical comment and reporting clauses exhibit various interesting properties, which are shown to be related. Three different word order pat-terns are attested in Dutch and German: apparent V1, V2 and V-final; the ...
Chapter Wittgenstein’s On Certainty and Relativism
(2016)
One important strand in the contemporary debate over epistemological relativism focuses on the question whether, and to what extent, Wittgenstein in “On Certainty” (1969) leaned towards this position. This paper is a ...
Chapter There’s Always the Sun
(2016)
The present paper asks how Macrobius thinks his extensive allegories of statues of the gods and other elements of traditional religion are possible. He can be shown to espouse a Neoplatonic theory of images. This entails ...
Digitised Newspapers – A New Eldorado for Historians?
(2022)
Digitization technologies applied to historical newspapers have changed the research landscape historians were used to. An Eldorado? Despite unquestionable merits, the new digital affordance of historical newspapers also ...
Chapter Lexikostatistik 2.0*
(2014)
In the middle of the 20th century there were various attempts to classify
Languages with the help of word lists that correspond to the basic vocabulary of the relevant
Languages are taken to automate. These methods ...
Zur Aktualität der Privatrechtstheorie Adolf Reinachs
(2024)
The aim of this treatise is to present Reinach's main work to a broader audience and thus to make a contribution to its rediscovery - which, in the view expressed here, is overdue. To this end, the treatise first introduces ...
Climbing up the Social Ladder?
(2024)
Social mobility is about climbing the societal ladder, or switching to a better, more promising or rewarding position. But how does this work for those already atop or very close to it? This book explores instances of ...
Osteuropäisch – jüdisch – sozialistisch
(2022)
This study sheds light on the lives of an exiled group of Eastern European Jewish socialists who spent time in Berlin during the Weimar Republic, analyzes the different ways that they understood belonging, and traces their ...
Dynamics of Religion
(2016)
RGVV(History of Religion: Essays and Preliminary Studies) brings together the mutually constitutive aspects of the study of religion(s)—contextualized data, theory, and disciplinary positioning—and engages them from a ...