Lars Fischer
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600241 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lars Fischer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lars |
| FAMILY NAME | Fischer |
| SIGNATURE | FISCHER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5015-222X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Essays on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left
"In April 1945, Jean Améry was liberated from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. A Jewish and political prisoner, he had been brutally tortured by the Nazis, and had also survived both Auschwitz and other infamous camps. His experiences during the Holocaust were made famous by his book At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor of Auschwitz and Its Realities. Essays on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left features a collection of e…
Heimat als kritisches kulturpolitisches Programm
Während eine unfruchtbare ideologiekritische Debatte möglichen Kontaminierungen im Heimatbegriff nachspürt, schlagen die Autoren vor, die Auseinandersetzung mit dem eigenen Raum in einer Programmatik der regionalen Selbstbeschreibung zu führen. Die dafür geeigneten Arbeitsweisen der Landschaftskommunikation sind offen und nicht auf eine politische Zuordnung angewiesen - denn regionale Beschreibungen ermöglichen kollektive Wissensprodukton.
The Migration of Metaphysics into the Realm of the Profane
In this study, I examine and interpret Kabbalistic traces in Theodor W. Adorno's philosophy. The fundamental issue is hardly new. The editor of Adorno's and Benjamin's writings, Rolf Tiedemann, has pointed to "the affinity between Adorno's thought and some motifs of Jewish mysticism.
Mirjam Zadoff. Werner Scholem
Until five years ago, courtesy of his brother Gershom Scholem and a number of references in Walter Benjamin’s correspondence, quite a few people had heard of Werner Scholem, once a leading light in the interwar Communist Party of Germany (KPD), yet relatively little was actually known about him. This changed in 2014, when not one but two full-length German biographies were published. The volume under review is the (in parts rather poor) translati…
Theodor W. Adorno, Gershom Scholem, and the ‘German-Jewish Dialogue’
The publication of the correspondence between Theodor W. Adorno and Gershom Scholem in 2015 is a major landmark, offering fresh insights into their personalities and the remarkable intellectual relationship and growing personal friendship between them. In this short piece, some of the evidence for the intensity of the relationship between Adorno and Scholem is presented, followed by a discussion of their shared emphatic negation of the notion tha…
Michele Battini, Socialism of Fools
Georg Knepler
A Pearl in the Levite Crown
One would have hoped that the publication of Michael Hofmann’s superb translation of Fred Wander’s novel The Seventh Well (New York 2008) might finally help secure Wander’s text the attention it deserves, alas, as yet to no avail. Fred Wander, probably best known (if at all) as the widower and executor of Maxie Wander, was a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. First published in East Berlin in 1971, The Seventh Well is a semi-fictionalized acco…
Is the study of Jewish–Christian relations in Europe still important
Neither of the two most common objections to the continued importance of the study of Jewish–Christian relations – the “changed circumstances thesis” and the “job done thesis” – is compelling. The pioneering work of individual scholars notwithstanding, as a serious academic discipline or sub-discipline, the study of Jewish–Christians relations is still in its infancy and its protagonists would be well advised to take into account the critical com…
CHRISTIAN S. Davis. Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Germans of Jewish Descent in Imperial Germany
This monograph raises a number of extremely interesting and relevant questions. Christian S. Davis sets out to elucidate how “the antisemitic and colonialist movements of the Kaiserreich era impinged upon each other in meaningful ways” (p. 3). His principal focus is on the role prominent Germans of Jewish background played in the colonial movement and the ways in which their involvement was perceived and problematized (or not) by antisemitic acti…
The Germans in Their Century, 1890-1990, by Christian Graf von Krockow
Journal Article The Germans in Their Century, 1890–1990, by Christian Graf von Krockow Get access The Germans in Their Century, 1890–1990, by Christian Graf von Krockow (ed. and tr. Reicke Schweitzer) (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2009; pp. xxv + 324. £60). Lars Fischer Lars Fischer Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVI,…
Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews
After the “Strauss wars”
Hitler’s Priests. Catholic Clergy and National Socialism / Wissenschaftsmanagement im “Dritten Reich.” Geschichte der Generalverwaltung der Kaiser‐Wilhelm‐Gesellschaft / Nazi Germany and the Humanitie…
Continuity and Discontinuity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German History
The Non-Jewish Question and Other "Jewish Questions" in Modern Germany (and Austria)
Contextualising Fred Wander’s The Seventh Well
Crises of Memory and the Second World War (review)
Reviewed by: Crises of Memory and the Second World War Lars Fischer (bio) Susan Rubin Suleiman. Crises of Memory and the Second World War. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2006. x + 286 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-02206-5, $29.95. With Crises of Memory and the Second World War, Susan Rubin Suleiman offers an unusually judicious and humane contribution to a number of highly contentious and frequently polemical debates. Her point of departure is the insight that “how…
Public Knowledge of the Shoah in Nazi Germany
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLars FischerLars Fischer, is Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (CJCR) in Cambridge and an Honorary Research Associate in the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department at UCL. He was educated at Queen Mary and Westfield College (University of London) and UCL. Before moving to Cambridge, he held lectureships in modern European history at King’s College London and German…
Whither pogromshchina – historiographical synthesis or deconstruction
This historiographical discussion piece on the implication of Simon Petliura and the Directory in the pogroms during the ill‐fated struggle for Ukrainian independence between 1917 and 1920 focuses on four core issues. Firstly, it suggests that those committed to the current Ukrainian nation‐building agenda face a crucial paradox: for the Directory’s endeavours to qualify as a precedent in nation building, one has to talk up its ability to influen…
The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany
What set antisemites apart from anti-antisemites in Imperial Germany was not so much what they thought about 'the Jews', but what they thought should be done about them. Like most anti-antisemites, German Social Democrats felt that the antisemites had a point but took matters too far. In fact, Socialist anti-antisemitism often did not hinge on the antisemites' anti-Jewish orientation at all. Even when it did, the Socialists' arguments generally d…
Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust
Networks of Nazi Persecution
The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics
The pogromshchina and the directory
National Ukrainian historiography's attempts to place the most extensive mass killings of Jews in modern history prior to the Shoah beyond the national movement's responsibility have traditionally combined the suggestion of an undue involvement of Jewry with Bolshevism and the notion that the autonomy rights granted to Ukrainian Jewry by the Rada (and reinstated by the Directory) would vouchsafe for the movement's ingrained hostility toward antis…
The pogromshchina and the directory
National Ukrainian historiography's attempts to place the most extensive mass killings of Jews in modern history prior to the Shoah beyond the national movement's responsibility have traditionally combined the suggestion of an undue involvement of Jewry with Bolshevism and the notion that the autonomy rights granted to Ukrainian Jewry by the Rada (and reinstated by the Directory) would vouchsafe for the movement's ingrained hostility toward antis…
Whither pogromshchina – historiographical synthesis or deconstruction
This historiographical discussion piece on the implication of Simon Petliura and the Directory in the pogroms during the ill‐fated struggle for Ukrainian independence between 1917 and 1920 focuses on four core issues. Firstly, it suggests that those committed to the current Ukrainian nation‐building agenda face a crucial paradox: for the Directory’s endeavours to qualify as a precedent in nation building, one has to talk up its ability to influen…
The pogromshchina and the directory
National Ukrainian historiography's attempts to place the most extensive mass killings of Jews in modern history prior to the Shoah beyond the national movement's responsibility have traditionally combined the suggestion of an undue involvement of Jewry with Bolshevism and the notion that the autonomy rights granted to Ukrainian Jewry by the Rada (and reinstated by the Directory) would vouchsafe for the movement's ingrained hostility toward antis…
The Emergence of Modern Jewish Politics
Networks of Nazi Persecution
The Socialist Response to Antisemitism in Imperial Germany
What set antisemites apart from anti-antisemites in Imperial Germany was not so much what they thought about 'the Jews', but what they thought should be done about them. Like most anti-antisemites, German Social Democrats felt that the antisemites had a point but took matters too far. In fact, Socialist anti-antisemitism often did not hinge on the antisemites' anti-Jewish orientation at all. Even when it did, the Socialists' arguments generally d…
Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust
Crises of Memory and the Second World War (review)
Reviewed by: Crises of Memory and the Second World War Lars Fischer (bio) Susan Rubin Suleiman. Crises of Memory and the Second World War. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2006. x + 286 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-02206-5, $29.95. With Crises of Memory and the Second World War, Susan Rubin Suleiman offers an unusually judicious and humane contribution to a number of highly contentious and frequently polemical debates. Her point of departure is the insight that “how…
Public Knowledge of the Shoah in Nazi Germany
Additional informationNotes on contributorsLars FischerLars Fischer, is Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations (CJCR) in Cambridge and an Honorary Research Associate in the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department at UCL. He was educated at Queen Mary and Westfield College (University of London) and UCL. Before moving to Cambridge, he held lectureships in modern European history at King’s College London and German…
Whither pogromshchina – historiographical synthesis or deconstruction
This historiographical discussion piece on the implication of Simon Petliura and the Directory in the pogroms during the ill‐fated struggle for Ukrainian independence between 1917 and 1920 focuses on four core issues. Firstly, it suggests that those committed to the current Ukrainian nation‐building agenda face a crucial paradox: for the Directory’s endeavours to qualify as a precedent in nation building, one has to talk up its ability to influen…
Contextualising Fred Wander’s The Seventh Well
After the “Strauss wars”
Hitler’s Priests. Catholic Clergy and National Socialism / Wissenschaftsmanagement im “Dritten Reich.” Geschichte der Generalverwaltung der Kaiser‐Wilhelm‐Gesellschaft / Nazi Germany and the Humanitie…
Continuity and Discontinuity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century German History
The Non-Jewish Question and Other "Jewish Questions" in Modern Germany (and Austria)
The Germans in Their Century, 1890-1990, by Christian Graf von Krockow
Journal Article The Germans in Their Century, 1890–1990, by Christian Graf von Krockow Get access The Germans in Their Century, 1890–1990, by Christian Graf von Krockow (ed. and tr. Reicke Schweitzer) (Manchester: Manchester U.P., 2009; pp. xxv + 324. £60). Lars Fischer Lars Fischer Centre for Jewish-Christian Relations, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXVI,…
Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews
Is the study of Jewish–Christian relations in Europe still important
Neither of the two most common objections to the continued importance of the study of Jewish–Christian relations – the “changed circumstances thesis” and the “job done thesis” – is compelling. The pioneering work of individual scholars notwithstanding, as a serious academic discipline or sub-discipline, the study of Jewish–Christians relations is still in its infancy and its protagonists would be well advised to take into account the critical com…
CHRISTIAN S. Davis. Colonialism, Antisemitism, and Germans of Jewish Descent in Imperial Germany
This monograph raises a number of extremely interesting and relevant questions. Christian S. Davis sets out to elucidate how “the antisemitic and colonialist movements of the Kaiserreich era impinged upon each other in meaningful ways” (p. 3). His principal focus is on the role prominent Germans of Jewish background played in the colonial movement and the ways in which their involvement was perceived and problematized (or not) by antisemitic acti…
A Pearl in the Levite Crown
One would have hoped that the publication of Michael Hofmann’s superb translation of Fred Wander’s novel The Seventh Well (New York 2008) might finally help secure Wander’s text the attention it deserves, alas, as yet to no avail. Fred Wander, probably best known (if at all) as the widower and executor of Maxie Wander, was a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. First published in East Berlin in 1971, The Seventh Well is a semi-fictionalized acco…
Georg Knepler
Theodor W. Adorno, Gershom Scholem, and the ‘German-Jewish Dialogue’
The publication of the correspondence between Theodor W. Adorno and Gershom Scholem in 2015 is a major landmark, offering fresh insights into their personalities and the remarkable intellectual relationship and growing personal friendship between them. In this short piece, some of the evidence for the intensity of the relationship between Adorno and Scholem is presented, followed by a discussion of their shared emphatic negation of the notion tha…
Michele Battini, Socialism of Fools
Heimat als kritisches kulturpolitisches Programm
Während eine unfruchtbare ideologiekritische Debatte möglichen Kontaminierungen im Heimatbegriff nachspürt, schlagen die Autoren vor, die Auseinandersetzung mit dem eigenen Raum in einer Programmatik der regionalen Selbstbeschreibung zu führen. Die dafür geeigneten Arbeitsweisen der Landschaftskommunikation sind offen und nicht auf eine politische Zuordnung angewiesen - denn regionale Beschreibungen ermöglichen kollektive Wissensprodukton.
The Migration of Metaphysics into the Realm of the Profane
In this study, I examine and interpret Kabbalistic traces in Theodor W. Adorno's philosophy. The fundamental issue is hardly new. The editor of Adorno's and Benjamin's writings, Rolf Tiedemann, has pointed to "the affinity between Adorno's thought and some motifs of Jewish mysticism.
Mirjam Zadoff. Werner Scholem
Until five years ago, courtesy of his brother Gershom Scholem and a number of references in Walter Benjamin’s correspondence, quite a few people had heard of Werner Scholem, once a leading light in the interwar Communist Party of Germany (KPD), yet relatively little was actually known about him. This changed in 2014, when not one but two full-length German biographies were published. The volume under review is the (in parts rather poor) translati…
Essays on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left
"In April 1945, Jean Améry was liberated from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp. A Jewish and political prisoner, he had been brutally tortured by the Nazis, and had also survived both Auschwitz and other infamous camps. His experiences during the Holocaust were made famous by his book At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor of Auschwitz and Its Realities. Essays on Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism, and the Left features a collection of e…
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