Evelyn Adunka

Evelyn Adunka (born October 22, 1965 in Villach ) is an Austrian historian and publicist .

Life

Evelyn Adunka studied philosophy, historical studies and Jewish studies at the University of Vienna and was there with a later published as a book thesis on Friedrich Heer Dr. phil. PhD.

She was a lecturer in modern Jewish philosophy at the University of Vienna .

The focus of her research lies in the field of Jewish contemporary and intellectual history, on which she has published numerous papers.

Adunka is a member of the editorial team of Zwischenwelt. Journal for the culture of exile and resistance , member of the Austrian PEN Club and board member of the “Austrian Society for Exile Research” and was a founding and long-term board member of the Jewish liberal community “Or Chadasch - Movement for Progressive Judaism”, founded in Vienna in 1990 .

In 2019 she was awarded the City of Vienna Prize for Journalism.

Publications

Standalone publications

• Adorno's messianic thinking. A study of Jewish philosophy and identity in this century . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, Vienna 1988.
• Friedrich Heer . An intellectual biography . Tyrolia, Innsbruck 1995, ISBN 3-7022-1868-8 .
• The fourth church. The Viennese Jews from 1945 to the present day . Philo, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-8257-0163-8 .
• Exile at home. About the Austrians in Israel . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck 2002, ISBN 3-7065-1482-6 .
• The robbery of the books. Looting during the Nazi era and restitution after 1945. On the disappearance and destruction of libraries during the Nazi era and their restitution after 1945 . Czernin, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-7076-0138-2 .
• The City Temple of Vienna . History - rabbis - cantors . Published by the New Synagogue Berlin Foundation, Centrum Judaicum , Hentrich & Hentrich , Teetz 2008, ISBN 978-3-938485-55-2 (= Jewish miniatures , volume 62).
• Max Eisler. Viennese art historian and publicist. Hentrich & Hentrich Berlin, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-95565-281-4
• Zionist Congresses in Vienna. The XI. Zionist Congress 1913 in the Musikverein with the establishment of the Hebrew University and the XIV Zionist Congress 1925 in the Konzerthaus. Vienna: Edition INW 2018, ISBN 3-9500356-7-2

As a co-author

• with Dieter J. Hecht and Sabine Mayr: Bridges, Relationships, Blockades. Initiatives and organizations in Austria and Israel since 1945 . Edition INW, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-9500356-5-0 .
• with Gabriele Anderl: Jewish life in the Vienna suburbs: Ottakring and Hernals . Mandelbaum, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-85476-389-5 . (Updated new edition: Jüdisches Ottakring and Hernals . Mandelbaum, Vienna 2020, ISBN 978-3-85476-870-8 ).
• with Klaus Kreppel : Jonas Kreppel - faithful and patriotic. Biographical sketch of an Austrian-Jewish writer . With the participation of Evelyn Adunka and Thomas Soxberger, Mandelbaum, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-85476-814-2 .

As an employee

• Time gives the pictures. Writers who had Austria as their home . Ed. Ursula Seeber. With bio-bibliographic articles by Evelyn Adunka and photographs by Alisa Douer . Publishing house of the Documentation Center for Newer Austrian Literature, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-900467-30-7 .
• Siglinde Bolbecher , Konstantin Kaiser : Lexicon of Austrian exile literature . Deuticke, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-216-30548-1 .
• Paul Chaim Eisenberg : Experiences of a Rabbi. History and stories . Biography. Molden, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-85485-127-8 .

As editor

• with Albert Brandstätter: The Jewish Lehrhaus as a model of lifelong learning . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-85165-391-2 .
• with Peter Roessler: The reception of exile. History and perspectives of Austrian exile research . Mandelbaum, Vienna 2003 ISBN 3-85476-058-2
• Diaries of Emanuel Fiscus (1916–1921) . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Vienna-Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-3-7065-4598-3 .
• with Gerald Lamprecht and Georg Traska: Jewish associations in Austria in the 19th and 20th centuries . StudienVerlag, Innsbruck-Vienna-Bozen 2011, ISBN 978-3-7065-4946-2 .
• with Konstantin Kaiser: Gerda Hoffer, Judith Hübner: Two ways, one goal. Two women’s fates between Vienna and Jerusalem . Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft , Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-901602-42-9 .
• Sophie Roth: For my Schurlik child. Diary 1940–1944 . Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-901602-48-1 .
• with Judith Aistleitner and Alexander Emanuely: Alfons Petzold, Marek Scherlag: Vieler Sterne Geist. Modern Yiddish poetry. Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-901602-72-6 .
• with Primavera Driessen Gruber and Simon Usaty: Exile Research: Austria. Services, deficits & perspectives. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-85476-449-6 .
• with Helmuth A. Niederle: Wolfgang Georg Fischer: From my office in London, Vienna and on the Grundlsee 1951 to 2018. Löcker, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-85409-944-4 .
• with Andrea M. Lauritsch: Arthur Freud. Retrospectives. Memories of a Zionist. Moravia - Gorizia / Gorizia - Trieste / Trieste - Vienna. Commented and edited by Armin A. Wallas. Mandelbaum, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-85476-822-7

Web links

• Literature by and about Evelyn Adunka in the catalog of the German National Library
• Evelyn Adunka and the Theodor Kramer Society
• Or Chadasch Jewish liberal community in Vienna

notes

1. ↑ to the looted libraries for the high school of the NSDAP of Alfred Rosenberg