Nadine Rossol - The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic

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The Oxford Handbook of the Weimar Republic has been three years in the making, and we would like to express our gratitude to the many colleagues who have supported us. Our thanks go to Christina Wipf-Perry, who commissioned the project, and to Stephanie Ireland and Cathryn Steele, who offered support and crucial advice right until the end. Katie Bishop helped us with the technical complexities of editing work, Jane Robson provided superb copy-editing, and Preethi Krishnan steered our book through production.

We are grateful to the contributors, leading experts on Weimar Germany, who have taken time from their other work to offer a concise, interpretive analysis of their respective topic. The chapters in this volume are neither historiographical overviews nor simple textbook glosses. They rather represent an attempt to combine the presentation of structured information with an invitation to reflect on key arguments, continuities, and the complexities of politics, culture, and society in Weimar Germany.

We would also like to thank Christine Brocks, who did the bulk of the translations and compiled the index, and those colleagues who were able to support the translation of their own chapter, or indeed the inclusion of one iconic image. The Department of History at the University of Sheffield and the Department of History at the University of Essex funded the translation of chapters, crucial help that is greatly appreciated. Special thanks go to Moritz Fllmer, who was not only the first to deliver his chapter, but also provided advice, insight, and moral support along the way. We are also grateful to Anthony McElligott, who offered invaluable criticism on our introduction. With great sadness we have to record that Sharon Gillerman, a distinguished scholar of the history of modern German Jewry, passed away shortly after she had submitted her draft chapter. Our thanks go to Paul Lerner and Mark Quigley who helped to finalize her important contribution.

Finally, we would like to thank the German History Society, and here especially Jim Bjork, as well as Takuya Onodera, Akiyoshi Nishiyama, and Jrn Leonhard, who provided at various stages an opportunity to discuss our thinking about the Weimar Republic with equally critical and constructive audiences.

Nadine Rossol and Benjamin Ziemann

March 2021

Nadine Rossol and Benjamin Ziemann

Christopher Dillon

Martin H. Geyer

Matthew Stibbe

Larry Eugene Jones

Peter C. Caldwell

Erin R. Hochman

Thomas Mergel

Siegfried Weichlein

Benjamin Ziemann

Jonathan Wright

Nadine Rossol

Karl Christian Fhrer

Philipp Mller

Joachim C. Hberlen

Shelley Baranowski

Daniel Siemens

Susanne Wein and Martin Ulmer

Jan-Otmar Hesse and Christian Marx

Moritz Fllmer

Pamela E. Swett

Benjamin Ziemann

Ute Planert

Mary Nolan

Sharon Gillerman ()

Barbara Stambolis

Jochen Hung

Helmuth Kiesel

Beate Strtkuhl

Todd H. Weir and Udi Greenberg

Lutz Raphael

Kerry Wallach

Claudia Siebrecht