Babylon (magazine)

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Babylon: Contributions to the Jewish Present

publishing company Publishing house new criticism
First edition 1986
Frequency of publication irregular
Web link neuekritik.de
ISSN (print) 0931-6418

Contributions to the Jewish presence Babylon is a scientific journal of the publishing house New Criticism in Frankfurt , a total of 23 issues have been published by the 1986-2010 at irregular intervals.

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The title was chosen based on the Babylonian exile in Jewish history. In its articles, the magazine is dedicated to the secular “intellectual discourse on Jewish problems” and primarily focuses on the coexistence of German Jews and non-Jews from a philosophical, political, religious-historical and sociological perspective.

The founding editors were Dan Diner , Susann Heenen-Wolff , Gertrud Koch , Cilly Kugelmann and Martin Löw-Beer . Heenen-Wolff later left and Micha Brumlik , Lena Inowlocki and Yfaat Weiss joined the editorial team. Authors were u. a. Norman Birnbaum , Harold Bloom , Saul Friedländer , Monika Richarz and Frank Stern . The last edition is from March 2010.

reception

In 1991, the journalist Richard C. Schneider wrote in Die Zeit : “The wish of the Babylon editors to take part in the political discussion [is] a small step towards being 'taken for granted', if certainly not towards the propagated 'normality'. At the same time, the high standards of this magazine make it clear that it finds itself in an outsider role in two respects, since it is not supported by a consensus of the Jewish community. "

In the taz it was said: "Among the Judaica, 'Babylon' is a remarkable publication and has meanwhile won a steady readership: as an intellectual forum that deals with Jewish topics in essayistic form."

The author Roland H. Wiegenstein commented in the Frankfurter Rundschau : "One of the advantages of Babylon is that the magazine repeatedly addresses the contradictions in Israeli society itself."

Other recipients of the sheet were u. a. Henryk M. Broder (paved beach), Detlev Claussen (hr) and Hermann Kurzke (FAZ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barbara von Reibnitz : Multiculturalism and Judaism . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 9, 2000, p. 58.
  2. ^ The time of November 22, 1991.
  3. ↑ taz of December 2, 1991.
  4. ^ Roland H. Wiegenstein : History and memory . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , August 10, 2002.
  5. ^ Press comments on the magazine Babylon , New Critique Verlag, accessed on April 27, 2014.