Robin Ostow
Biographic Data
| ID | 120474 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin Ostow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin |
| FAMILY NAME | Ostow |
| SIGNATURE | OSTOW R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wilfrid Laurier University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1325-3042 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Negritude, Americanization and human rights in Gorée, Senegal
Based on historical research, and in situ observations, this article examines the history of the Maison des Esclaves as an example of Moyn's argument that interest in human rights arose as a response to the failures of previous idealistic movements, especially nationalism and socialism, and, by the 1970s, the feeling that decolonization had failed. Originating as an expression of Negritude idealism and cultural nationalism, with the Senegalese st…
Joachim Baur, Die Musealisierung der Migration
The study of 'freak shows' encompasses several fields of interest, from museum history to disability studies, and has developed an extensive English-language canon, centered on the works of individuals like Robert Bogdan and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, both of whom contributed to this collection.Based on the French volume, Zoos Humains, this edition brings together a range of divergent methodologies from history, sociology, and anthropology to exa…
Mokum is Home
Mokum is 'Amsterdam' in the local dialect of Yiddish. Deriving from the Hebrew word makom, meaning 'place', Mokum affectionately designates the Dutch capital as 'the place' for Jews. Judith Belinfante, director of Amsterdam's Jewish Historical Museum from 1976 to 1998, explained: 'Amsterdam was, for a long time, the only place where Jews could come without any restrictions'. Already in the early seventeenth century, Jews began arriving, from Port…
Immigration, Integration, and Anxiety in Germany
These volumes represent the cumulative findings of two American scholars who have visited, resided in, and conducted research in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) at regular intervals since the 1980s. Although some chapters of both books are updated versions of articles originally published up to twenty years ago, in their current configuration they offer a longitudinal analysis of more than fifty years of immigration to a state that, until 2…
From Victims of Antisemitism to Post-Modern Hybrids
Since April 1990, more than 100,000 Jews from the Soviet Union and its successor states have migrated to Germany, radically and permanently altering the size, shape and culture of Germany’s Jewish population. This migration was unexpected, unplanned and, in fact, unwanted by the German government, by the Israeli government, and by most members of Germany’s Jewish communities. It took place against the background of the dissolution of the Soviet U…
From objects of administration to agents of change
The post‐Soviet immigrants and the Jüdische allgemeine in the new millennium
Of Germans, Jews, and Dinosaurs
Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe
Ne Art Burgerwehr in Form von Skins
Robin Ostow, " 'Ne Art Bürgerwehr in Form von Skins": Young Germans on the Streets in the Eastern and Western States of the Federal Republic, New German Critique, No. 64, Germany: East, West, and Other (Winter, 1995), pp. 87-103
Belonging in the Two Berlins
From the Cold War Through the Wende
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobin OstowRobin Ostow is a Research Associate at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto. Her book Jews in Contemporary East Germany: The Children of Moses in the Land of Marx (New York: St. Martins Press) was published in 1989.
Dossier on Women in Eastern Europe
In the following three interviews made from April-August, 1990 we discuss the impact of recent political changes in Eastern Europe on women, and the political organizations women have formed to confront these problems. Tatiana Bohm and Ines Koenen are both from the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) and were both in the Round Table of November, 1989-March, 1990, which was the effective decision-making body formed after the uprising in Fall, …
The Shaping of Jewish Identity in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1989
The anti-Jewish measures that decimated the Jewish community of the GDR in 1952-53 and the subsequent rehabilitation of the remnant of that community after Stalin's death serve as examples of anti-semitism in Eastern Europe. Equally important, they reveal the role of the state in shaping its religious and ethnic minorities. The events of 1952-53 reduced the size of the Jewish community in the GDR and destroyed it as a grass-roots organization. It…
Jews in Contemporary East Germany
This book is the result of a series of interviews of Robin Ostow with Jews in the German Democratic Republic. For the first time since the founding of the East German state in 1949 Jews have been allo
Being Jewish in the Other Germany
Robin Ostow, Thomas Eckert, Being Jewish in the Other Germany: An Interview with Thomas Eckert, New German Critique, No. 38, Special Issue on the German-Jewish Controversy (Spring - Summer, 1986), pp. 73-87
The Unorthodox Approach to Jewish History in the German Democratic Republic
Hajo Funke, Helmut Eschwege, Robin Ostow, The Unorthodox Approach to Jewish History in the German Democratic Republic: An Interview with Helmut Eschwege, New German Critique, No. 38, Special Issue on the German-Jewish Controversy (Spring - Summer, 1986), pp. 88-104
Ne Art Burgerwehr in Form von Skins
Robin Ostow, " 'Ne Art Bürgerwehr in Form von Skins": Young Germans on the Streets in the Eastern and Western States of the Federal Republic, New German Critique, No. 64, Germany: East, West, and Other (Winter, 1995), pp. 87-103
The post‐Soviet immigrants and the Jüdische allgemeine in the new millennium
From the Cold War Through the Wende
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobin OstowRobin Ostow is a Research Associate at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto. Her book Jews in Contemporary East Germany: The Children of Moses in the Land of Marx (New York: St. Martins Press) was published in 1989.
The Shaping of Jewish Identity in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1989
The anti-Jewish measures that decimated the Jewish community of the GDR in 1952-53 and the subsequent rehabilitation of the remnant of that community after Stalin's death serve as examples of anti-semitism in Eastern Europe. Equally important, they reveal the role of the state in shaping its religious and ethnic minorities. The events of 1952-53 reduced the size of the Jewish community in the GDR and destroyed it as a grass-roots organization. It…
Being Jewish in the Other Germany
Robin Ostow, Thomas Eckert, Being Jewish in the Other Germany: An Interview with Thomas Eckert, New German Critique, No. 38, Special Issue on the German-Jewish Controversy (Spring - Summer, 1986), pp. 73-87
The Unorthodox Approach to Jewish History in the German Democratic Republic
Hajo Funke, Helmut Eschwege, Robin Ostow, The Unorthodox Approach to Jewish History in the German Democratic Republic: An Interview with Helmut Eschwege, New German Critique, No. 38, Special Issue on the German-Jewish Controversy (Spring - Summer, 1986), pp. 88-104
Jews in Contemporary East Germany
This book is the result of a series of interviews of Robin Ostow with Jews in the German Democratic Republic. For the first time since the founding of the East German state in 1949 Jews have been allo
Dossier on Women in Eastern Europe
In the following three interviews made from April-August, 1990 we discuss the impact of recent political changes in Eastern Europe on women, and the political organizations women have formed to confront these problems. Tatiana Bohm and Ines Koenen are both from the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) and were both in the Round Table of November, 1989-March, 1990, which was the effective decision-making body formed after the uprising in Fall, …
The Shaping of Jewish Identity in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-1989
The anti-Jewish measures that decimated the Jewish community of the GDR in 1952-53 and the subsequent rehabilitation of the remnant of that community after Stalin's death serve as examples of anti-semitism in Eastern Europe. Equally important, they reveal the role of the state in shaping its religious and ethnic minorities. The events of 1952-53 reduced the size of the Jewish community in the GDR and destroyed it as a grass-roots organization. It…
From the Cold War Through the Wende
Additional informationNotes on contributorsRobin OstowRobin Ostow is a Research Associate at the Centre for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Toronto. Her book Jews in Contemporary East Germany: The Children of Moses in the Land of Marx (New York: St. Martins Press) was published in 1989.
Belonging in the Two Berlins
Women in the Politics of Postcommunist Eastern Europe
Ne Art Burgerwehr in Form von Skins
Robin Ostow, " 'Ne Art Bürgerwehr in Form von Skins": Young Germans on the Streets in the Eastern and Western States of the Federal Republic, New German Critique, No. 64, Germany: East, West, and Other (Winter, 1995), pp. 87-103
Of Germans, Jews, and Dinosaurs
From Victims of Antisemitism to Post-Modern Hybrids
Since April 1990, more than 100,000 Jews from the Soviet Union and its successor states have migrated to Germany, radically and permanently altering the size, shape and culture of Germany’s Jewish population. This migration was unexpected, unplanned and, in fact, unwanted by the German government, by the Israeli government, and by most members of Germany’s Jewish communities. It took place against the background of the dissolution of the Soviet U…
From objects of administration to agents of change
The post‐Soviet immigrants and the Jüdische allgemeine in the new millennium
Mokum is Home
Mokum is 'Amsterdam' in the local dialect of Yiddish. Deriving from the Hebrew word makom, meaning 'place', Mokum affectionately designates the Dutch capital as 'the place' for Jews. Judith Belinfante, director of Amsterdam's Jewish Historical Museum from 1976 to 1998, explained: 'Amsterdam was, for a long time, the only place where Jews could come without any restrictions'. Already in the early seventeenth century, Jews began arriving, from Port…
Immigration, Integration, and Anxiety in Germany
These volumes represent the cumulative findings of two American scholars who have visited, resided in, and conducted research in the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) at regular intervals since the 1980s. Although some chapters of both books are updated versions of articles originally published up to twenty years ago, in their current configuration they offer a longitudinal analysis of more than fifty years of immigration to a state that, until 2…
Joachim Baur, Die Musealisierung der Migration
The study of 'freak shows' encompasses several fields of interest, from museum history to disability studies, and has developed an extensive English-language canon, centered on the works of individuals like Robert Bogdan and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, both of whom contributed to this collection.Based on the French volume, Zoos Humains, this edition brings together a range of divergent methodologies from history, sociology, and anthropology to exa…
Negritude, Americanization and human rights in Gorée, Senegal
Based on historical research, and in situ observations, this article examines the history of the Maison des Esclaves as an example of Moyn's argument that interest in human rights arose as a response to the failures of previous idealistic movements, especially nationalism and socialism, and, by the 1970s, the feeling that decolonization had failed. Originating as an expression of Negritude idealism and cultural nationalism, with the Senegalese st…
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