Cathy Gelbin
Biographic Data
| ID | 952985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathy Gelbin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathy |
| FAMILY NAME | Gelbin |
| SIGNATURE | GELBIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0196-9342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Introduction
Our introduction explores the concepts of Jewish dissidence in the former “Eastern Bloc,” tracing important historical moments in its post-WWII emergence, as well as its major proponents and themes. It will explore the inherent tensions in the notion of a “Jewish” dissidence, given the (often persisting) anti-religious and anti-Zionist ideological beliefs of many Jewish dissenters who were Communist party members returning from exile or were educ…
A Road across the Jewish Cemetery at Weißensee
This paper proposes a new history of Jewish community life and relations between Jews and non-Jews in the GDR, Western Germany, Israel and the United States through exploring the foiled plans for an expressway through the Jewish Cemetery at Berlin-Weißensee between 1976 and 1986. Drawing on existing historiography on the GDR’s Jewish communities and previously unconsidered archival documents, personal narratives and visual documents, the piece sh…
Queer Jewish lives on screen
This piece explores the clashing preconceptions and elective affinities regarding queerness and Jewishness in the filmic representation of intersectional queer and Jewish sensibilities from the 1980s to the present, a period in which postmodern paradigms came to the fore in popular culture, academic theory and alternative community politics. As I argue, these films convey a tug and pull between religious tradition and cultural innovation; between…
Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews
Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. The book sets out from an exploration of the nature and cultural-political implications of the shifting perceptions of Jewish mobility and fluidity around 1800, when modern cosmopolitanist discourse arose. Throug…
Rootless cosmopolitans
This article examines the impact of the Stalinist persecutions of Jews as ‘rootless cosmopolitans’ on the Jewish involvement with leftist ideas. In inter-war Germany and Austria, Jewish intellectuals played a disproportionate role in promoting both cosmopolitanist and leftist ideals. While belonging mostly to the bourgeois spectrum, many harboured close sympathies with the young Soviet Union, whose imperative of Communist internationalism seemed …
Nomadic cosmopolitanism
Whereas Jews formed the paradigm of the modern cosmopolitan in the early twentieth century, they have largely vanished from today’s academic discourse of the cosmopolitan. But the story of cosmopolitanism, I contend, cannot be written without attention to the Jews. My article thus examines key writings by the German-speaking Jewish writers Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth and Lion Feuchtwanger, who postulated Jews and Jewish culture as the prototype of …
Towards the global shtetl
This article explores the post-1990s formation of a global paradigm of popular Jewish culture by European, Israeli and American authors. The author argues that golem texts show both how Jews themselves function as a metaphor for globalisation, an image with frequent anti-Semitic connotations, and for the ways in which contemporary Jewishness is currently being positively reconfigured in terms of post-modern playfulness. In the films and literary …
Words from Abroad
Double Visions
This article argues for a complex consideration of queer iconographies across Holocaust perpetrators, victims, bystanders, and resisters. Looking at the construction of same-sex sexual conduct in Holocaust memoirs, I propose sexual manifestations as an important issue in power relations between women during the Holocaust. From there, I chart the shifting construction of queer femininity and its role in Holocaust representation from early socialis…
Between Persecution and Complicity
The particular treatment of persons of ‘mixed’ Jewish and non-Jewish ancestry during the Holocaust remains an under-explored topic in scholarly research on the Holocaust. Drawing on the relatively new field of biography studies in Germany, this essay looks at the life history of a former ‘Jewish Mischling’ in Germany to exemplify the ways in which circumstances such as age, gender and religious affiliation affected the diverse treatment of indivi…
AufBruche
In Quest for a Unified Self
Cathy Gelbin, In Quest for a Unified Self: Race, Hybridity, and Identity in Elisabeth Langgässer's Der gang durch das ried, New German Critique, No. 70, Special Issue on Germans and Jews (Winter, 1997), pp. 141-160
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In Quest for a Unified Self
Cathy Gelbin, In Quest for a Unified Self: Race, Hybridity, and Identity in Elisabeth Langgässer's Der gang durch das ried, New German Critique, No. 70, Special Issue on Germans and Jews (Winter, 1997), pp. 141-160
AufBruche
Between Persecution and Complicity
The particular treatment of persons of ‘mixed’ Jewish and non-Jewish ancestry during the Holocaust remains an under-explored topic in scholarly research on the Holocaust. Drawing on the relatively new field of biography studies in Germany, this essay looks at the life history of a former ‘Jewish Mischling’ in Germany to exemplify the ways in which circumstances such as age, gender and religious affiliation affected the diverse treatment of indivi…
Words from Abroad
Double Visions
This article argues for a complex consideration of queer iconographies across Holocaust perpetrators, victims, bystanders, and resisters. Looking at the construction of same-sex sexual conduct in Holocaust memoirs, I propose sexual manifestations as an important issue in power relations between women during the Holocaust. From there, I chart the shifting construction of queer femininity and its role in Holocaust representation from early socialis…
Towards the global shtetl
This article explores the post-1990s formation of a global paradigm of popular Jewish culture by European, Israeli and American authors. The author argues that golem texts show both how Jews themselves function as a metaphor for globalisation, an image with frequent anti-Semitic connotations, and for the ways in which contemporary Jewishness is currently being positively reconfigured in terms of post-modern playfulness. In the films and literary …
Nomadic cosmopolitanism
Whereas Jews formed the paradigm of the modern cosmopolitan in the early twentieth century, they have largely vanished from today’s academic discourse of the cosmopolitan. But the story of cosmopolitanism, I contend, cannot be written without attention to the Jews. My article thus examines key writings by the German-speaking Jewish writers Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth and Lion Feuchtwanger, who postulated Jews and Jewish culture as the prototype of …
Rootless cosmopolitans
This article examines the impact of the Stalinist persecutions of Jews as ‘rootless cosmopolitans’ on the Jewish involvement with leftist ideas. In inter-war Germany and Austria, Jewish intellectuals played a disproportionate role in promoting both cosmopolitanist and leftist ideals. While belonging mostly to the bourgeois spectrum, many harboured close sympathies with the young Soviet Union, whose imperative of Communist internationalism seemed …
Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews
Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. The book sets out from an exploration of the nature and cultural-political implications of the shifting perceptions of Jewish mobility and fluidity around 1800, when modern cosmopolitanist discourse arose. Throug…
Queer Jewish lives on screen
This piece explores the clashing preconceptions and elective affinities regarding queerness and Jewishness in the filmic representation of intersectional queer and Jewish sensibilities from the 1980s to the present, a period in which postmodern paradigms came to the fore in popular culture, academic theory and alternative community politics. As I argue, these films convey a tug and pull between religious tradition and cultural innovation; between…
Introduction
Our introduction explores the concepts of Jewish dissidence in the former “Eastern Bloc,” tracing important historical moments in its post-WWII emergence, as well as its major proponents and themes. It will explore the inherent tensions in the notion of a “Jewish” dissidence, given the (often persisting) anti-religious and anti-Zionist ideological beliefs of many Jewish dissenters who were Communist party members returning from exile or were educ…
A Road across the Jewish Cemetery at Weißensee
This paper proposes a new history of Jewish community life and relations between Jews and non-Jews in the GDR, Western Germany, Israel and the United States through exploring the foiled plans for an expressway through the Jewish Cemetery at Berlin-Weißensee between 1976 and 1986. Drawing on existing historiography on the GDR’s Jewish communities and previously unconsidered archival documents, personal narratives and visual documents, the piece sh…
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