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Edmund Schlink (1903-1984), Professor of Dogmatic Theology and Ecumenism at Heidelberg University, was delegated to Rome as an official observer of Vatican II (1962-1965) by the Evangelical Church in Germany (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland - EKD). At the intersection between contemporary church history and ecumenism Hopf investigates the motives and circumstances of Schlink's delegation. She studies so far unpublished archival material to show how Edmund Schlink tried to influence the Council proceedings and to distil the observer's judgement on central Council documents and their authors.

In launching the National Mission (Volksmission) over 100 years ago, the German Evangelical Churches hoped to spread the Gospel and stabilize a society ravaged by war and domestic instability. Henning Bühmann traces the development of Protestant missionary thinking in Germany between 1916 and 1934, concentrating on the activities of the Central Committee of the Home Mission (Central-Ausschusses der Inneren Mission). He traces the increasingly nationalist tone adopted by the missionaries and their failure to halt the tide of secularism. The author concludes that the eventual collapse of the missionary movement was due less to the new political atmosphere which followed the establishment of the Third Reich than the internal contradictions of the Volksmissionsbewegung itself.

Families who have a seriously ill child are in a difficult situation and need help. This book, presents a concept for volunteers, tries to remove the pre-existing inhibitions, encourages an understanding of the fears and worries of the family concerned and conveys the necessary prior knowledge and skills required in these difficult situations.

Based on largely unknown source material, this study tells the forgotten story of Yiddish literature and culture in post-war Germany.

Examines German music literature from the 18th to the 20th century on the background of anti-semitism and racial prejudice against Jews.

Before World War II the West-Bohemian spas Carlsbad, Marienbad and Franzensbad were places where Jews from all over Europe gathered. Despite its briefness, the exceptionally social nature of the stays enabled complex relationships to develop between bourgeois and orthodox cultures.

A biography of Heinrich Graetz. It focuses particularly on the formulation and inherent dynamic of Jewish identity in the context of its time.

On the threshold to modernity, Hebrew assumed new and contested meanings. It was no longer studied as a language of divine origin, but written and re-written as the language of the Jewish nation as the diaspora developed.

Presents a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between Einstein's religious commitments and his scientific research. By dismantling prejudices regarding philosophical influences on Einstein's thought, this title provides necessary conditions for a dialogue between science, theology and philosophy.

The Itzig family was one of the well known Jewish families in Prussia at the end of the 18th century. Thekla Keuck is telling the story of this family over five generations. How did the Itzigs change their attitude towards family, Jewish religion, and culture after they entered the Enlightened society of Berlin?

Hundreds of translations from German into Hebrew were published prior to the establishment of the state of Israel. They include novels, plays, non-fiction, and children's books, as well as numerous poems, short stories and essays that appeared in magazines. This is a study of the translation project.

Examines the works of famous Oriental Hebrew writers and shows us how Israel has developed from being a Western foreign body in the Near East to becoming an open, transcultural society.

Neben theologie-, frommigkeits- und kirchengeschichtlichen Untersuchungen finden sich hauptsachlich allgemeinhistorische (mit den Schwerpunkten Sozial-, Mentalitats- und Institutionengeschichte), musik- und literaturwissenschaftliche sowie medizin- und padagogikgeschichtliche Untersuchungen.

A register that presents more than 1000 short biographical accounts of German Protestants who held a leading position or a professorship in the period of 1919 to 1949.

A PhD thesis that focuses on the social milieu and the socio-cultural embedding of the zurich pietitists in the early phase, from the end of the 17th century till the beginning of 18th century.

Im Mittelpunkt dieser Edition stehen die Protokolle der ersten zwanzig Sitzungen der Konferenz der ostlichen Landeskirchen (Ostkirchenkonferenz), die seit August 1945 unter Vorsitz von Bischof Otto Dibelius in der Sowjetischen Besatzungszone stattfanden.