Eli Rubin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5692880 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eli Rubin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eli |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubin |
| SIGNATURE | RUBIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6149-410X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum . The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin argues, was heralded by this startling idea: existence itself is predicated on a self-inflicted "rupture" in the infinite assertion of divinity. Centuries of theoretical disputations concerning ṣimṣum ultimately morphed into religious and social schis…
Julia E. Ault. Saving Nature Under Socialism
Journal Article Julia E. Ault. Saving Nature Under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968–1990. Get access Julia E. Ault. Saving Nature Under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968–1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 276. Paper $29.97. Eli Rubin Eli Rubin Western Michigan University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn of Lubavitch (“Maharash,” 1834–1882) and the False Twilight of Chabad Hasidism
The maskilic characterization of the nineteenth century as a period of decline and ossification for Hasidism is increasingly eschewed by scholars, yet continues to mark current research in significant ways. As a case study, this article takes up Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn of Lubavitch (“Maharash,” 1834–1882), rescrutinizing (1) the controversy surrounding the onset of his leadership, (2) his personality and charisma, (3) his methodological approach…
Stadtverwaltung im Staatssozialismus
Based on his dissertation, Christian Rau’s monograph Stadtverwaltung im Staatssozialismus is a rich, in depth, and highly detailed account of the transformation of municipal and regional administrative structures in Leipzig throughout the history of the German Democratic Republic. In it, Rau focuses especially on the administrative and Party organs that focused on housing, which was a central issue in urban planning and policy in the GDR, especia…
Amnesiopolis Modernity, Space, and Memory in East Germany
Amnesiopolis explores the construction of Marzahn, the largest prefabricated housing project in East Germany, built on the outskirts of East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, and touted by the regime as the future of socialism. It also focuses especially on the experience of East Germans who moved, often from crumbling slums left over as a legacy of the nineteenth century, into this radically new place, one defined by pure functionality and rational…
Amnesiopolis
On April 11, 1977, near a small village northeast of Berlin called Marzahn, construction teams from the Volkseigener Betrieb (VEB) Tiefbau Berlin began digging the first foundation for what became the largest construction site and the largest prefabricated housing settlement ( Plattenbausiedlung ) not just in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), but in all of Europe (see Figure 1). An army of more than 6,000 workers arrived, and over the course …
Designing Modern Germany
Jeremy Aynsley's Designing Modern Germany is a useful synthesis of the major trends and developments in design—and to a degree in architecture as well—in Germany from the late 1800s to the present. It reads almost like a textbook, and would be a useful introduction for upper level undergraduates, or even new graduate students, to the highlights of design in Germany. Aynsley suggests in his introduction that Designing Modern Germany is an attempt …
The Trabant
This essay looks at the history of the quintessential East German automobile, the Trabant, from a unique point of view. Rather than focusing on the Trabant as an object unto itself, this essay argues that the Trabant must be understood as integrated into a larger system of socialism, and the contradictions that this system produced. In particular, the notion of Eigen-Sinn helps illuminate the paradox of the Trabant as an embedded or interwoven ob…
East German Plastics
East German Plastics: Technology, Gender and Teleological Structures of Everyday Life Get access Eli Rubin Eli Rubin Western Michigan University) [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 25, Issue 4, October 2007, Pages 596–624, https://doi.org/10.1177/0266355407082775 Published: 01 October 2007
The Form of Socialism without Ornament
Industrial designers who inherited the Bauhaus legacy experienced a dramatic reversal of fortunes in the socialist German Democratic Republic. The height of the Stalinist era in the Soviet Bloc, 1950–1953, meant a near complete shutdown of modernist and functionalist design and architecture. However, modernist designers found a niche later as the East German economy needed to mass-produce goods without sacrificing quality and with a particular mo…
The Trabant
This essay looks at the history of the quintessential East German automobile, the Trabant, from a unique point of view. Rather than focusing on the Trabant as an object unto itself, this essay argues that the Trabant must be understood as integrated into a larger system of socialism, and the contradictions that this system produced. In particular, the notion of Eigen-Sinn helps illuminate the paradox of the Trabant as an embedded or interwoven ob…
Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn of Lubavitch (“Maharash,” 1834–1882) and the False Twilight of Chabad Hasidism
The maskilic characterization of the nineteenth century as a period of decline and ossification for Hasidism is increasingly eschewed by scholars, yet continues to mark current research in significant ways. As a case study, this article takes up Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn of Lubavitch (“Maharash,” 1834–1882), rescrutinizing (1) the controversy surrounding the onset of his leadership, (2) his personality and charisma, (3) his methodological approach…
The Form of Socialism without Ornament
Industrial designers who inherited the Bauhaus legacy experienced a dramatic reversal of fortunes in the socialist German Democratic Republic. The height of the Stalinist era in the Soviet Bloc, 1950–1953, meant a near complete shutdown of modernist and functionalist design and architecture. However, modernist designers found a niche later as the East German economy needed to mass-produce goods without sacrificing quality and with a particular mo…
East German Plastics
East German Plastics: Technology, Gender and Teleological Structures of Everyday Life Get access Eli Rubin Eli Rubin Western Michigan University) [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar German History, Volume 25, Issue 4, October 2007, Pages 596–624, https://doi.org/10.1177/0266355407082775 Published: 01 October 2007
The Trabant
This essay looks at the history of the quintessential East German automobile, the Trabant, from a unique point of view. Rather than focusing on the Trabant as an object unto itself, this essay argues that the Trabant must be understood as integrated into a larger system of socialism, and the contradictions that this system produced. In particular, the notion of Eigen-Sinn helps illuminate the paradox of the Trabant as an embedded or interwoven ob…
Designing Modern Germany
Jeremy Aynsley's Designing Modern Germany is a useful synthesis of the major trends and developments in design—and to a degree in architecture as well—in Germany from the late 1800s to the present. It reads almost like a textbook, and would be a useful introduction for upper level undergraduates, or even new graduate students, to the highlights of design in Germany. Aynsley suggests in his introduction that Designing Modern Germany is an attempt …
Amnesiopolis
On April 11, 1977, near a small village northeast of Berlin called Marzahn, construction teams from the Volkseigener Betrieb (VEB) Tiefbau Berlin began digging the first foundation for what became the largest construction site and the largest prefabricated housing settlement ( Plattenbausiedlung ) not just in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), but in all of Europe (see Figure 1). An army of more than 6,000 workers arrived, and over the course …
Amnesiopolis Modernity, Space, and Memory in East Germany
Amnesiopolis explores the construction of Marzahn, the largest prefabricated housing project in East Germany, built on the outskirts of East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, and touted by the regime as the future of socialism. It also focuses especially on the experience of East Germans who moved, often from crumbling slums left over as a legacy of the nineteenth century, into this radically new place, one defined by pure functionality and rational…
Stadtverwaltung im Staatssozialismus
Based on his dissertation, Christian Rau’s monograph Stadtverwaltung im Staatssozialismus is a rich, in depth, and highly detailed account of the transformation of municipal and regional administrative structures in Leipzig throughout the history of the German Democratic Republic. In it, Rau focuses especially on the administrative and Party organs that focused on housing, which was a central issue in urban planning and policy in the GDR, especia…
Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn of Lubavitch (“Maharash,” 1834–1882) and the False Twilight of Chabad Hasidism
The maskilic characterization of the nineteenth century as a period of decline and ossification for Hasidism is increasingly eschewed by scholars, yet continues to mark current research in significant ways. As a case study, this article takes up Rabbi Shmuel Schneersohn of Lubavitch (“Maharash,” 1834–1882), rescrutinizing (1) the controversy surrounding the onset of his leadership, (2) his personality and charisma, (3) his methodological approach…
Julia E. Ault. Saving Nature Under Socialism
Journal Article Julia E. Ault. Saving Nature Under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968–1990. Get access Julia E. Ault. Saving Nature Under Socialism: Transnational Environmentalism in East Germany, 1968–1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Pp. 276. Paper $29.97. Eli Rubin Eli Rubin Western Michigan University, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of ṣimṣum . The onset of modernity, Eli Rubin argues, was heralded by this startling idea: existence itself is predicated on a self-inflicted "rupture" in the infinite assertion of divinity. Centuries of theoretical disputations concerning ṣimṣum ultimately morphed into religious and social schis…
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