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The Duty to Know: Nineteenth-Century Jewish Catechisms and Manuals and the Making of Jewish Religious Knowledge

In 1878 Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1800–1882), probably the most famous nineteenth-century German-Jewish painter, created a work entitled The Heder, or Jewish Elementary School, which re-imagined his first school in Hanau near Frankfurt am Main...

Lesson about Thanksgiving Day

Thursday is a big holiday in the United States, where we are located, so this blog will be quiet until next week. Happy Thanksgiving!

[caption id="attachment_6881" align="alignleft" width="656"] Thanksgiving Day lesson, Whittier Primary School, Hampton, Virginia, ca. 1899–1900, by Francis Benjamin Johnston, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/97507246/.[/caption]
Report: Migration and Knowledge

Report: Migration and Knowledge

Panel Series at the 40th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association in San Diego, September 29 – October 2, 2016

This panel series focused on a field of research that is emerging at the intersection of the history of knowledge and the history of migration.[1] This dynamic field, as series organizer Simone Lässig emphasized … Continue reading