Abstract
The future of Jewish studies, including research of German-Jewish history, literature, and the arts, depends upon the interpretation of their past. The study of German-Jewish literature is committed to enterprises of this kind: we are not able to tell the future, but through learning, readings, and interpretations, we can attest to its possibilities. In asking about the future, we are called back into the realm of the past. In this dialectic lie the real possibilities of interpretation, which are of future value. In our own study of German-Jewish worlds, in looking for their future, our research itself turns into an
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Future of the German-Jewish Past |
| Subtitle of host publication | memory and the question of antisemitism |
| Editors | Gideon Reuveni, Diana Franklin |
| Place of Publication | West Lafayette, Indiana |
| Publisher | Purdue University Press |
| Pages | 87-96 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 1-55753-729-1 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1557537119 |
| State | Published - 2020 |