... tendencies, both men probed natural law as a concept for defying tyranny. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc. 2015 rule of law positivism justice Jewish lawyers Social Democrats German emigrants Write and Resist: Ernst Fraenkel and Franz Neumann on the Role of Natural Law in Fighting...

... bureaucratic entity. More important, it introduced a novelty into the handling of looted art in Germany. For the first time, international experts and representa- tives of Jewish organizations were asked to join a consulting body. Most of the members of the task force were announced in early 2014...

..., and the unwillingness of museums to determine the provenance not just of Cornelius Gurlitt’s holdings but of Generous funding for the conference was provided by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service, and Columbia’s Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies. We are also grateful...

... journalist and writer, author of the notorious “document” that pretends to describe the secret plan of a Jewish conspiracy to achieve world domination.1 Golovinskii had, according to Lepekhin, composed the Protocols at the turn of the twentieth century on the orders of Piotr Rachkovskii, head...

...-documented reserve, sensitivity, and decency—“touchiness, a sense of justice, restlessness,” as he put it4—led critics to endow Josef K. with a personal integrity nowhere in evidence in the novel. The German-speaking Jewish lawyer, dejected bachelor, tortured dia- rist, and inimitable fabulist of turn...

..., an invitation accepted only by the American Arthur Garfi eld Hays, counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who was of Jewish origin. Hays (named for three presidents) made his reputa- tion in 1925 as Clarence Darrow’s assistant and the defense team strategist for the famous “Monkey...

... former Jewish colleague Erwin Jacobi and to the lawyer Albert Hensel during 1933 ( Mehring, Carl Schmitt , 314 ; Koenen, Der Fall , 382–83 ). 25. Schmitt and Feuchtwanger, Briefwechsel , 396 . 26. Mehring, Carl Schmitt , 313–19 . In a letter to Wilhelm Stapel, Schmitt refers...

... with dialectical the- ology. In his thesis, however, he discovered, through an immense survey of epigraphic, papyrological, and archaeological materials, that the late antique use of the “one god” formula was not a statement of the conceptual content of a creed (pagan, Jewish, or Christian) but a formula...

... : Harvard University Press . World Jewish Restitution Organization . 2015 . Report , June 25 . lootedart.com/web_images/pdf2015/ReportMuseums.pdf . Yeide Nancy . 2009 . Dreams of Avarice: The Hermann Goering Collection . Dallas, TX : Laurel . Yeide Nancy Akinsha...

... possibilities and, more often than not, limit them. The article ties together a German Jewish discourse of emergency, on the one hand, and the politics of etatism (mamlachtiut) and Hans Kelsen's Basic Norm , on the other hand. Seven decades later, the legal system still shows the same hesitation of the first...

... weakened the Weimar Republic. To deal with the Nazi past, Chancellor Konrad Ade- nauer acknowledged that “unspeakable crimes have been committed in the name of the German people” and pushed through reparations to Israel and Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.7 The government attempted to contain far...

... Horkheimer critical institutionalism Institute of Social Research rackets National Socialism Otto Kirchheimer (1905–65) was one of a group of young German Jewish lawyers driven into exile after 1933, needing then to establish new livelihoods and restart their professional careers as scholars, some...

...” history was essential if one were to grasp National Socialism. 2 This approach also characterized the writings of other German Jewish exiles such as Fritz Stern and Peter Gay, whom Rabinbach cites as influences in his interview. Yet various aspects distinguish Rabinbach’s approach from those of his...

..., the conspiracy theo- ries’ anti-Semitic slant grew stronger, expressed in the catchphrase “golden international.” From the very beginning, anti-Semitism was linked with a con- spiratorial plot of the history of the Jewish people—otherwise, this ideology would not have worked—and as a narrative of secret...

... . Horkheimer Max . 1985 . “Die Rackets und der Geist.” In Gesammelte Schriften , edited by Noerr Gunzelin Schmid Schmidt Alfred , vol. 12 , 287 – 91 . Frankfurt am Main : Fischer . Jacobs Jack . 2015 . The Frankfurt School, Jewish Lives, and Antisemitism . New York : Cambridge...

... of reethnicization—in Deleuzian terms—a reterritorializa- tion of minority identities, in postunification Berlin. That is, the fall of the Wall has been a “nonevent,” depriving the city of its openness to unknown futures. The protagonist, Sascha Muhteschem, a German writer of Jewish and Turkish extraction...

...), for example, began promoting an international bill of rights that would defend religious worship, the American Jewish Commit- tee advocated for the rights of minorities and refugees. Of the many institu- tions that began to draft such universal bills, the ALI was the earliest, largest, and most...

... of Jewish descent, collaborated with other communist activists in collecting archival files about the resistance. It was to Steiner’s credit that he sought to attract representatives of other milieus rather than communists to take part in the establishment of the DÖW. 14 The most important objective...

... Diagonale Film Festi- val in that same year, is based on the eponymous novel by the Austrian writer Josef Haslinger.14 It links three family stories: that of Jewish victims of the Shoah, that of a perpetrator, and that of an Austrian family whose social milieu Haslinger paints quite precisely...

... dedication signals the work Bauer will undertake in triggering this watershed event. 16 Phoenix tells the story of Nelly Lenz, a Jewish singer who survives Auschwitz but on a death march in the last days of the camp sustains gunshot wounds that damage her face beyond recognition. After reconstructive...