Till van Rahden

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Till van Rahden, in November 2018 at the Römerberg Talks in Frankfurt am Main

Till van Rahden (* 1967 ) is a German historian and university professor in Montreal .

Life

Van Rahden received his doctorate in modern history at Bielefeld University in 1999 and was then a research assistant in the history department. He teaches modern and contemporary history at the Université de Montréal , from 2006 to 2016 as holder of the Canada Research Chair in German and European Studies. He is also an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa .

His research fields are the German and European history of the 19th and 20th centuries, gender issues , theory and history of modern democracies and the history of Jews in contemporary Europe. His research focus is on European history since the Enlightenment. He is particularly interested in the tension between the elusive promise of democratic equality and the ubiquity of cultural diversity and moral conflicts.

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Monographs

Editorships

Articles (selection)

  • Ideology and violence. New publications on anti-Semitism in German history in the 19th and early 20th centuries , in: Neue Politische Literatur 41 (1996), pp. 11–29.
  • Words and Actions. Rethinking the Social History of German Antisemitism - Breslau, 1870-1914 , in: German History 18 (2000), pp. 413-438.
  • Jews and the Ambivalences of Civil Society in Germany, 1800 to 1933 , in: Journal of Modern History 77 (2005), pp. 1024-1047.
  • Treason, fate or chance. Readings of the concept of assimilation in the historiography of the history of the German Jews , in: Culture - Society - Everyday 13 (2005), pp. 245–264.
  • Democracy and paternal authority. The Karlsruhe “Stichentscheid” judgment of 1959 in the political culture of the early Federal Republic , in: Zeithistorische Forschungen 2 (2005), pp. 160–179.
  • 'Germans of the Jewish Stamm'. Visions of Community between Nationalism and Particularism, 1850 to 1933 , in: Mark Roseman, Nils Roemer and Neil Gregor (Eds.): German History from the Margins , Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006, pp. 27-48.
  • Fatherhood, Rechristianization, and the Quest for Democracy in Postwar West Germany , in: Dirk Schumann (Ed.): Raising Citizens in the "Century of the Child" , New York: Berghahn Books, 2010, pp. 141-164.
  • Awkward Democrats: Moral Passions in the Federal Republic , in: Wolfram Pyta , Carsten Kretschmann (Ed.): Bürgerlichkeit. Searching for traces in the past and present . Stuttgart: Steiner, 2016, ISBN 978-3-515-11249-9 , pp. 151-177.
  • A world without a family. About children's shops and other democratic promises of salvation , in: WestEnd. Neue Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung 14 (2017), no. 2, pp. 3–26.
  • Collect rags. With Siegfried Kracauer in the thicket of the 19th century , in: Historische Zeitschrift 307 (2018), pp. 319–340 doi: 10.1515 / hzhz-2018-0027 .
  • What was the 'fatherless society'? Alexander Mitscherlich and the discussion about democracy and authority , in: Hilde Landweer, Catherine Newmark (ed.): How masculine is authority? Feminist criticism and appropriation (= politics of gender relations , vol. 60), Frankfurt: Campus, 2018, pp. 55–86.

Web links

Commons : Till van Rahden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website at the Université de Montréal.
  2. ^ Website at Carleton University.
personal data
SURNAME Rahden, Till van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1967