Alfred Bodenheimer

Alfred Bodenheimer (* 1965 in Basel , Switzerland ) is a Swiss literary scholar and author . He is professor for Jewish literary and religious history at the University of Basel . In addition to specialist publications, he is also the author of several crime novels.

life and work

Alfred Bodenheimer received a traditional Jewish education and undertook Talmudic studies at Yeshiva University in New York and at Yeshivat Hamivtar in Israel . In 1991 he completed his studies at the University of Basel with a licentiate in German Philology and History, and in 1993 he did his doctorate there with a thesis on the emigration of Else Lasker-Schüler to Palestine. After research and teaching activities in Israel and at the University of Lucerne and a habilitation at the University of Geneva , he returned to the University of Basel in 2003 as a professor of Jewish literary and religious history. From 2005 to 2008, Bodenheimer was also rector of the University of Jewish Studies in Heidelberg . From 2010 to 2012 he was dean of the theological faculty at the University of Basel. Here he has headed the Center for Jewish Studies since August 2010.

Bodenheimer published numerous scientific publications, including studies on Moses and the Eternal Jew , Jewish narratives and the mediation of traditions.

Publications (selection)

Scientific monographs

• The imposed homeland. Else Lasker-Schüler's emigration to Palestine (= Conditio Judaica. 9). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1995, ISBN 3-484-65109-1 (also: Basel, Universität, dissertation, 1993).
• Wandering shadows. Ahasver, Moses and the authenticity of Jewish modernity. Wallstein, Göttingen 2002, ISBN 3-89244-509-5 .
• Bitten into the sky. Essays on European-Jewish literature (= writings of the Society for European-Jewish Literature Studies. 4). Edition Text + Criticism, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86916-149-5 .
• Go away! The Jews in the circumcision debate. Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1244-9 .
• Unbroken broken. About Jewish narratives and the formation of traditions. Wallstein, Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-8353-1019-3 .

Editorial collaboration

• Judaica. Contributions to the understanding of Judaism. (Quarterly publication of the Foundation for Church and Judaism). ISSN  0022-572X .

Editor and co-authorship

• as editor with Miriam Fischer-Geboers: Readings of Freedom. On the interpretation and meaning of Emmanuel Lévinas' Difficile Liberté. Alber, Freiburg (Breisgau) et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-495-48654-2 .
• Commentary on Arnold Zweig. In: Birgit Erdle, Werner Konitzer (Hrsg.): Theories about hatred of Jews - a history of thought. Annotated source edition (1781–1931) (= Scientific series of the Fritz Bauer Institute. 26). Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-593-50470-4 , pp. 316-325.

A detailed list of the essays, editorships, and journal articles can be found on the University of Basel's Jewish Studies website.

Detective novels

• Cain's sacrifice. Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-312-00628-1 .
• The end of the song. Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-312-00648-9 .
• The Messiah is not coming. Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-312-00686-1 .
• You should love the stranger. Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-312-01033-2 .
• In the valley of bones. Nagel & Kimche, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-312-01085-1 .

Web links

• Profile Prof. Dr. Alfred Bodenheimer from the University of Basel
• Literature by and about Alfred Bodenheimer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Alfred Bodenheimer at perlentaucher.de

Individual evidence

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