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Books by Louise Hecht

Der systematische Erwerb von Kenntnissen im Umgang mit Quellen in jüdischen Sprachen ist im Wisse... more Der systematische Erwerb von Kenntnissen im Umgang mit Quellen in jüdischen Sprachen ist im Wissenschaftsbetrieb ein Desideratum. Das vorliegende Buch liefert hierzu eine praktische Einführung. Die ausgewählten handschriftlichen und gedruckten Quellen dokumentieren jüdische Geschichte von der Frühen Neuzeit bis ins 20. Jahrhundert in vier jüdischen Sprachen – Hebräisch, Jiddisch, Judendeutsch und Judenspanisch. Neben der jeweils als Faksimile wiedergegebenen Quelle werden eine Transkription und eine deutsche Übersetzung geboten. Das Buch ermöglicht nicht nur einen Einstieg in die Quellenkunde, insbesondere die Paläographie, sondern durch Kurzbeschreibungen der Texte auch einen Einblick in die Geschichte der Juden im Heiligen Römischen Reich und seinen Nachfolgestaaten.

Papers by Louise Hecht

Ludwig August Frankl (1810–1894), 2015

Who has any doubt nowadays that our past is the key to our present, and by articulating this past... more Who has any doubt nowadays that our past is the key to our present, and by articulating this past, verbalizing it to a therapist, we can divest ourselves of its debilitating weight? Memory liberates, narration heals, history redeems […]. […] to remember is to heal. Heal from what? From the amnesia that 'dissociates' the psyche, from the forgetting that breaks the continuity of my history and therefore keeps me from being my self. Ever since (and because of) Anna O.'s miraculous cure, forgetting has ceased to be a simple lapse of memory […]. Soll die in Erzählung gegossene Erinnerung aber nicht nur befreiende, sondern gar heilende und erlösende Kräfte besitzen, muß Vergessen von der Gedächtnislücke (lapse of memory) zum Sündenfall überhöht werden. Die Wiener Jüdin Bertha Pappenheim (1859-1936), von Freud und Breuer in den 1895 publizierten "Studien über Hysterie" sorgsam unter dem Decknamen Anna O. verborgen, gilt Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen daher sowohl als Kronzeugi...

Ludwig August Frankl (1810–1894), 2015

Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century Norwich, 2011

Korean Association of Child Studies, 2007

Ludwig August Frankl (1810–1894), 2015

Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century Norwich, 2011

Korean Association of Child Studies, 2007

Quellen zur jüdischen Geschichte im Heiligen Römischen Reich und seinen Nachfolgestaaten, 2014

Ludwig August Frankl (1810–1894), 2015

Austrian Studies, 2016

Some weeks before the Annual Conference, I had a letter from Donald to say that he was sorry that... more Some weeks before the Annual Conference, I had a letter from Donald to say that he was sorry that he did not think that he would be fit enough to come to Dundee. Little did I, or others of us who would thus be deprived of his genial company, realise how final this separation would be, and when the news reached the Conference of his death the previous Friday (April 6), a shadow fell over those gathered there who knew him. We were aware of the coronary trouble which had led to his early retirement from teaching in 1983, and which had afflicted him over recent years (but about which he never complained), but even so, the shock of his death could hardly have been greater. Unless there is nothing else to say about a person than to record his career, I do not think that the main purpose of an obituary should be to give a detailed C.V. Rather it is, I think, more to the point to assess the person, his character and achievements. Therefore no more than a brief summary of Donald's career is given here, in a paragraph below. Some people can be conveniently summarised in a single word: a 'character', a 'card', a 'sport', a 'bore', a 'scatterbrain', a 'dillitante', and so on. The word that comes immediately to mind to describe Donald is a 'gentleman'. This is not a word that I would use lightly, and it is one which is much abused and has many shades of meaning. Of Donald I use that word gentleman in its most literal, and its most favourable sense, and I do not think there can be many of those who knew him who would dissent, or who could find a better word. As one colleague has written to me ". .. the aspect that immediately occurs to me is his depth of kindness.. .. his presence inspired a sense of security and well-being because one could be so certain of his essential concern for those about him". And again, his headmaster wrote of ". .. his emphasis upon standards, the high regard and respect which he showed to old and young, able and less able alike, for his humanity and for his Christian example...." For an adjective to go with the noun, one could scarcely improve on the word 'cultured'. Donald was, among other things, an enthusiastic and knowledgeable musician, and a keen chess player, combining these with Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms.

Sharon Gordon/Rina Peled (eds), Vienna 1900. Blooming on the Edge of an Abyss. Hebrew, Carmel Publishing House: Jerusalem 2019, pp. 173-205., 2019

Ludwig August Frankl and Theodor Herzl, two Jewish intellectuals in Vienna, died within ten years... more Ludwig August Frankl and Theodor Herzl, two Jewish intellectuals in Vienna, died within ten years from one another, 1894 and 1904 respectively. In this decade, the fading of Liberalism and the strengthening of Nationalism within Jewish and Gentile population come to the fore. At Frankl’s funeral Viennese society gathered one last time in the spirit of Liberalism. Ten years later, the social and political changes manifest in the different media coverage, clearly divide between the Jewish and the Gentile sphere. Nationalism and Antisemitism became the cornerstones defining the relations between Jews and Gentiles in Vienna. The paper outlines the reasons for this development.

Jüdische religiöse Erziehung im Zeitalter der Emanzipation

Tobak figurirt in der Geschichte in 7erlei Betracht: als ein Religions-, Wund-, Arzneiund Modekra... more Tobak figurirt in der Geschichte in 7erlei Betracht: als ein Religions-, Wund-, Arzneiund Modekraut; und seitdem er letzteres geworden, auch als eine ökonomische, Handelsund Finanzpflanze. Schriftsteller fast von aller Art, Reisebeschreiber und Theologen, Aerzte und Kaufleute, Landbauer, Fabricanten, Kameralisten, und Dichter haben ihn bearbeitet; nur noch kein Geschichtsforscher. Daher die unzälichen falschen Nachrichten von ihm, die sich nach dem J. 1600 im ganzen Publico verbreitet haben und noch jetzt immer aus einem Buche in das andere laufen. (SCHLOEZER 1778: 154)

While it is common for library collections to grow in particular ways due to specific interests o... more While it is common for library collections to grow in particular ways due to specific interests of librarians and users, the LeopoldMüllerMemorial Library at the Oxford Centre for Jewish and Hebrew Studies entails a history especially intriguing for Jewish historians. Like a matryoshka doll it contains a seemingly infinite number of valuable collections, accumulated over time by outstanding scholars and purchased for the library by knowledgeable librarians through generous endowments. One of the library’s treasure troves for scholars of the Jewish Enlightenment, the Haskalah movement, is the FoyleMontefiore Collection, which bears the name of England’s most famous Jew of the nineteenth century Moses Montefiore (1784–1885). It contains the private library of Leopold Zunz (1794–1886), one of the key figures of Germany’s Wissenschaft des Judentums, and Zunz’s impressive collection includes the library of Lazarus Bendavid (1762–1832), an important representative of Berlin’s radical Hask...

Aschkenas

The paper addresses an under-researched chapter in the history of the Jewish Reform movement whic... more The paper addresses an under-researched chapter in the history of the Jewish Reform movement which is at the same time a commonly overlooked period in the biography of Leopold Zunz (1794–1886), one of the founding members of Wissenschaft des Judentums. By placing his eight-month appointment as a preacher to the Reform synagogue in Prague in its socio-political and biographical contexts, the article sheds new light at Zunz’s commitment for the religious renewal of Judaism. A schematic comparison between the development of the Reform movement in the German lands and the Habsburg Monarchy, at the beginning of the nineteenth century highlights the role of state involvement into internal Jewish affairs. Finally, the analysis of Zunz’s Synagogenordnung from 1836, according to the original manuscript from the National Library of Israel, allows a re-evaluation of the (Reform) synagogue as an institution for social disciplining of its members.