Joachim Schlör

Joachim Schlör (* 1960 in Heilbronn ) is a cultural scientist and has been a professor at the Parkes Institute for Jewish / non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton since 2006 . Before that, he taught at the University of Potsdam and headed the Competence Network for Jewish and Rabbinical Studies . As "spiritual father" of the DFG - Graduate College Makom (Place and Places in Judaism, 2001-2007), he made a lasting contribution to the "spatial turn" in Jewish studies.

Life

In 1980/81 Joachim Schlör and Andreas Maislinger volunteered in the Poland department of Action Reconciliation / Peace Services . From 1993 to 1999 he worked as a research assistant at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies , later as a research assistant at the Chair of Modern History II at the University of Potsdam. In 2006 Joachim Schlör was appointed Professor of Modern Jewish / non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton.

In the 2014 summer semester he was Kurt David Brühl Visiting Professor for Jewish Studies at the Center for Jewish Studies in Graz.

Publications (excerpt)

• The city's self. Debates on Judaism and Urbanity . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen
• The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe . Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Prestel Verlag, Munich
• Finally in the Promised Land? German Jews on their way to a new home. Construction publishing house, Berlin
• Hotel Europe. Notes from the edges of the continent. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt
• Tel-Aviv : From dream to city. Journey through culture and history. Bleacher, Gerlingen
  • English: Tel-Aviv. From dream to city. Response, London 1999
• “That doesn't go without saying…” - Cela ne va pas de soi , in: Freddy Raphael, Utz Jeggle (ed.): D'une rive a l'autre. Rencontres ethnologiques franco-allemandes. Small border traffic. Franco-German cultural analyzes . Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-7351-0682-9 , pp. 285-304
• At night in the big city. Paris, Berlin, London 1840–1930 . Artemis and Winkler, Munich 1991
  • English: Nights in the big City. Response, London 1998

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Schlör in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage at the University of Southampton
• Graduate College Makom (completed)