Dr. Markus Krah

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsJewish Studies,Regional Studies
KeywordsTransnational History and Transfer, Book Publishing, Cultural History, American Jewry, Modern Jewish History

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityNew York
InstitutionLeo Baeck Institute - New York / Berlin
Homepagehttps://www.lbi.org/

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Barbara HahnDepartment of Germanic and Slavic Languages, Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2019

Programme(s)

2019Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2018Markus Krah: American Jewry and the Re-Invention of the East European Jewish Past. de Gruyter, 2018
2018Mirjam Thulin, Markus Krah: “Disciplining Jewish Knowledge: Cultures of Wissenschaft des Judentums at 200”. In: PaRDeS: Journal of the German Association for Jewish Studies, 2018, 9-16
2017Markus Krah: “Clinging to Borders and Boundaries? The (Sorry) State of Transnational American Jewish Studies” . In: American Jewish History, 2017, 519-533
2017Markus Krah: “Further Forward through the Past: Postwar American Jews Reconfigure the East European Tradition in Cultural Terms” . In: Shofar, 2017, 111-131
2017Markus Krah: “Partisan Reviews and Commentaries on Eastern European Judaism”. In: Eliyana R. Adler, Sheila Elena Jelen, Reconstructing the Old Country: American Jewry in the Post Holocaust Decades . Wayne State University Press, 2017. 87-110
2012Markus Krah: “Role Models or Foils for American Jews? ‘The Eternal Light,’ the Displaced Persons, and the Search for Jewish Distinctiveness in Mid-20th-Century America” . In: American Jewish History, 2012, 265-286
Markus Krah, Mirjam Thulin: “Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the Babel Fish: The Transformative Impact of Translations in Jewish History and Culture”. In: PaRDeS: Journal of the German Association for Jewish Studies, , 11-20