Books by Anke Hilbrenner
Themenheft der Zeitschrift Osteuropa 4/2016 zum Thema Terrorismus als anti-imperiale Gewalt: Inha... more Themenheft der Zeitschrift Osteuropa 4/2016 zum Thema Terrorismus als anti-imperiale Gewalt: Inhaltverzeichnis
Handbuch der Sportgeschichte Osteuropas
Seit dem 19. Jahrhundert hat Sport die moderne Welt erfasst, wie kaum ein anderes gesellschaftlic... more Seit dem 19. Jahrhundert hat Sport die moderne Welt erfasst, wie kaum ein anderes gesellschaftliches Phänomen. Er hat für den Zusammenhalt imaginierter Gemeinschaften gesorgt, diese wiederum gesprengt und neue Trennlinien zwischen Gruppen und Regionen geschaffen. Er wurde politisch instrumentalisiert, in Diktaturen und in demokratischen Gesellschaften. Kaum eine andere kulturelle Errungenschaft der Moderne war im Leben von Individuen unterschiedlichster Generationen oder sozialer Milieus so präsent wie Sport. Kaum etwas sorgt für eine ähnliche globale Kommunikation wie internationale Sportereignisse, kaum etwas erschafft vergleichbare global moments. Zugleich ist Sport sowohl in friedlichen Zeiten, als auch inmitten von Kriegen und Krisen stets präsent.
Das Handbuch der Sportgeschichte Osteuropas analysiert die Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte des Sports im östlichen Europa. In vier Überblickskapiteln werden allgemeine Entwicklungen, spezifische Besonderheiten und Forschungstendenzen der Sportgeschichte anhand der osteuropäischen Geschichtsregionen präsentiert. In einem daran anschließenden systematischen Teil fokussiert das Handbuch zentrale Themen der modernen Sportgeschichtsschreibung in ihren osteuropäischen Kontexten und legt damit die Grundlage für Vergleiche weit über den Horizont des östlichen Europa hinaus.
Papers by Anke Hilbrenner
Rezension: Tobias Brinkmann: Migration und Transnationalität (rezensiert von Anke Hilbrenner)
Rezension: Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern: The Golden Age Shtetl. A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe (rezensiert von Anke Hilbrenner)
Rezension: Ansgar Molzberger (Hg.): Siegen für den Führer. Der Kölner Sport in der NS-Zeit (rezensiert von Anke Hilbrenner)
Historiography: Challenges and Opportunities
Körper und Sport
Handbuch der Sportgeschichte Osteuropas, 2017
The body is the fundamental condition of human existence. From the nine-teenth century onward the... more The body is the fundamental condition of human existence. From the nine-teenth century onward the bodily nature of the human being became importantin the philosophical discourse about many questions of humanity. The rise of sport as a cultural phenomenon was linked to debates about the body. Sport focuses on the body and its functions and thus sport is one of the cultural areas where national, ethnic, religious or gender-related body images are constructed. In a bibliographical introduction the article covers the research on the topic body and sports with regard to four different body images constructed withinthe framework of East European sports: Gender images, the Jewish body, Slavic bodies and Muslim bodies. Focusing on three different examples the text aims at an overview on the history of body and sports in Eastern Europe from the late nineteenth century onwards. The first example is the rivalry of German "Turnen" and sports among East European Jews before and after W...
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz Beihefte, 2018
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz Beihefte, 2018
Between "Barbed Wire Disease" and Judenexerzieren We also thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinscha... more Between "Barbed Wire Disease" and Judenexerzieren We also thank the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for funding the printing of this volume. We kindly thank Prof. Dr. Johannes Paulmann, Director of the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz, who provided us with the opportunity to publish this volume in the Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte. Dr. Joe Paul Kroll, Dr. Christiane Bacher and Vanessa Weber at the IEG supported the book as a process. We would also like to thank Martin Kupp for helping to prepare the volume and Ilana Brown for the copy editing of the chapters. Last but not least, we are also very grateful to Thomas Geve for the permission to print his drawing "Sport (Auschwitz I)" on the cover of our volume.
Russia in Global Affairs, 2020
In January 2020, the Russian-language bimonthly "Russia in Global Affairs" published an article o... more In January 2020, the Russian-language bimonthly "Russia in Global Affairs" published an article on "memory politics" and related conflicts, following a roundtable hosted by the magazine (Rossiya, 2020). To our amazement, the discussion caused a very keen reaction, especially in Europe. Our modest publication was immediately dubbed as nearly a forge of Kremlin ideas regarding "memory wars," which, of course, is flattering, but, alas, is not true. which we gladly share with our readers. 1
Rezension: Stephan Rindlisbacher: Leben für die Sache. Vera Figner, Vera Zasulič und das radikale Milieu im späten Zarenreich (rezensiert von Anke Hilbrenner)
1. Thematische Einführung: Warum jüdische Geschichte?1.1. Osteuropäische Geschichte, jüdische Ges... more 1. Thematische Einführung: Warum jüdische Geschichte?1.1. Osteuropäische Geschichte, jüdische Geschichte, osteuropäische jüdische Geschichte1.1.1. Rückständigkeit2. Wer sind die Ostjuden?2.1 Vier Lager2.1.1 National orientierte Juden2.1.2 Integrationisten2.1.3 Religiöse Juden2.1.4 Jüdische Sozialisten2.2 Imperiale Bevölkerung2.3 sephardim und ashkenasim3. Themen und Paradigmen3.1 Diaspora3.2 Die jüdische Gemeinde (kehilla/kahal)3.2.1 shtetl3.3 Geschlechterrollen der osteuropäischen Juden in der Moderne3.4 Jüdische Aufklärung (haskala)- Wissenschaft - Geschichtsschreibung3.5 Jüdische Politik: Zionismus, Nationaljudentum, Diasporanationalismus3.6 Antijüdische Gewalt - Pogrome3.6.1 shoa4. Glossar5. Auswahlbibliographie
The Journal of power institutions in post-soviet societies, 2016
Of Heroes and Villains – The Making of Terrorist Victims as Historical Perpetrators in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
Victimhood and Acknowledgement, 2018
Hirš Lekerts Rache. Gewalteskalation an der Peripherie des Zarenreichs um 1900
Osteuropa, 2016
From the perspective of the centre, the outer rim of the Russian Empire was marked by backwardnes... more From the perspective of the centre, the outer rim of the Russian Empire was marked by backwardness and violence. The Jews in the Pale of Settlement represented an allegedly dangerous mix of alien religious traditions and political radicalism. Tsarist policy responded to this complex situation with a particularly repressive policy. The microcosm of the Vilna province in spring 1902 shows how imperial and anti-imperial violence escalated step by step. A key event in this escalation was the assassination of Viktor von Wahl, the governor of the Vilna province, by the Jewish shoemaker Hirsh Lekert. Lekert was executed, but his example was instructive. In the revolutionary year of 1905, violence on the periphery spread to the point of conflagration.
Modern Times? : Terrorism in Late Tsarist Russia
European Sport Historiography: Challenges and Opportunities
Journal of Sport History, 2011
SPORT AS A PARTICIPANT ACTIVITY and as a spectator entertainment has been a central cultural feat... more SPORT AS A PARTICIPANT ACTIVITY and as a spectator entertainment has been a central cultural feature of European economic, social, and political life in the “long” twentieth century. European sport has developed—and has been studied—primarily within the framework of the nation state. There is now a critical mass of research on the development of sport in continental Europe, from the diffusion of British sport in the late nineteenth century to the collapse of the Soviet bloc in the late twentieth century. However, there is no general account of the modern history of European sport from a comparative and international perspective. And until recently, there has been no attempt to draw together and critically examine the various strands of the relevant research emerging from across Europe and North America. Indeed no single person or even small group of individuals could hope to master the linguistically diffuse research material on the subject, and there are very few forums for collabo...
Invention of a Vanished World Photographs of Traditional Jewish Life in the Russian Pale of Settlement
Jahrbucher Fur Geschichte Osteuropas, 2009
The article explores the tradition and making of ethnographic photography of the East European Je... more The article explores the tradition and making of ethnographic photography of the East European Jews in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth century. In the early Twentieth century in particular, Jewish ethnography identified and established religious Jews as national Jews. Ethnographic photography was part of a general trend among secular Jewish intellectuals to gather the remnants of the Jewish past in order to give rise to a Jewish historical awareness. Research into the history of photography of religious Jews in the Russian Empire thus affects the topic of Jewish nationalism, historiography, ethnography and the modem search for Jewish identity. It connects also to Russian Jewish art history, the primitivism of the Russian avant-garde and its sources in nineteenth century realism. The tradition of the photographs was strongly affected by the vicissitudes of Russian and Soviet history in the twentieth century, and almost as significantly by the modes and practices of scientific...
Der Bombenanschlag auf das Café Libman in Odessa am 17. Dezember 1905: Terrorismus als Gewaltgeschichte
The article offers a thick description of the notorious terrorist attack on the cafe Libman in Od... more The article offers a thick description of the notorious terrorist attack on the cafe Libman in Odessa in December 1905. Following the strike on the Hotel Bristol in Warsaw in November 1905, the Libman assault was the second cafe bombing in the Tsarist Empire. It was an act of "motiveless terror" commited by anarchist groups' escalating mass terrorism during the revolution of 1905 until 1907. The bombing attracted attention in the whole Empire because it was aimed directly at civilians: Women and children were harmed and injured. Because of the choice of the location this was not a 'collateral damage', but the attack was intended by the anarchist terrorists to kill "bourgeois capitalists". The analysis intends to clarify the violent impact of the terrorist deed. Violence in this specific context is perceived as a powerful ac deliberately hurting another person. Therefore the violent action itself is in the center of interest. The description of the eve...
Zwischen großen Erwartungen und bösem Erwachen : Juden, Politik und Antisemitismus in Ost- und Südosteuropa 1918-1945
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Books by Anke Hilbrenner
Das Handbuch der Sportgeschichte Osteuropas analysiert die Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte des Sports im östlichen Europa. In vier Überblickskapiteln werden allgemeine Entwicklungen, spezifische Besonderheiten und Forschungstendenzen der Sportgeschichte anhand der osteuropäischen Geschichtsregionen präsentiert. In einem daran anschließenden systematischen Teil fokussiert das Handbuch zentrale Themen der modernen Sportgeschichtsschreibung in ihren osteuropäischen Kontexten und legt damit die Grundlage für Vergleiche weit über den Horizont des östlichen Europa hinaus.
Papers by Anke Hilbrenner