Dr Gideon Reuveni
| Lecturer in Jewish History> | |
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| Telephone: | (+61 3) 8344 3309 |
| Email: | g.reuveni@unimelb.edu.au |
| Fax: | (+61 3) 8344 7894 |
| Location: | Room 324 Bridge History, John Medley Building The University of Melbourne VIC 3010 |
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Biography
Gideon Reuveni received his Ph.D. degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Before coming to Melbourne he worked as a research fellow at University of Munich and at the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig. He served as the George L. Mosse Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and held the prestigious Yad Hanadiv, Beracha Foundation Fellowship. His teaching areas include modern Jewish and European history as well as the history of Reading.
Research
Gideon’s central research interest lies in the cultural and social history of Germany as well as modern Jewish history and the history of reading. His current area of research is at the intersection of Jewish history and economics. Together with Antonia Finnane and Catharine Kovesi he has recently established a Melbourne research center on the cultural history of economies. Gideon is currently working on a book entitled Jews and Money: Consumer Culture and the Making of Jewish Identity in Central Europe. This Study aims to address a neglected subject in Jewish history. By placing the economy and especially consumer culture at the center of modern European Jewish experience, this study will confront central issues of Jewish history, such as assimilation and dissimilation, antisemitism and especially Jewish identity formation in modern times from a new perspective. Together with Antonia Finnane and Catherine Kovesi, he has recently established the Cultural History of Economies Research Hub (CHERHub). For more information about this hub and its activities see www.history.unimelb.edu.au/cherhub/.
Publications
Books
- Gideon Reuveni, Reading Germany: Literature and Consumer Culture in Germany before 1933 (New York: Berghahn Books, 2006)
A Hebrew version is published with Magnes Press, Jerusalem
Edited Volumes
- Gideon Reuveni and Michael Brenner (eds.), Emancipation through Muscles: Jews in European Sport (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006)
A German version is published with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen - Gideon Reuveni, Michael Brenner, Anthony Kauders, and Nils Römer (eds.), Jüdische Geschichte lesen. Texte der jüdischen Geschichtsschreibung im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Munich: Beck Verlag, 2003)
Scholarly Essays and Chapters in Books (*refereed)
In English:
- Gideon Reuveni, “Reading, Advertising and Consumer Culture in the Weimar Period,” in: Karl Christian Führer and Corey Ross (eds.), Screening the Media: Mass Media, Culture and Society in 20th-century Germany (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
- Gideon Reuveni, “Productivist and Consumerist Narratives Regarding Jews in German History,” in: Mark Roseman et al. (eds.), German History from the Margins (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), 165–185
- * Gideon Reuveni, “The German ‘Book Crisis’ after World War I,” German History, 20 (2002), 438–461
- * Gideon Reuveni, "Reading Sites as Sights for Reading: The Sale of Newspapers in Germany before 1933: Bookshops in Railway-Stations, Kiosks and Street Vendors,” Social History, 3 (2002), 273–287
- Gideon Reuveni, “Sport and the Militarization of Jewish Society,” in: Michael Brenner and Gideon Reuveni (eds.), Emancipation through Muscles: Jews in European Sport (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006), 44–61
In German:
- Gideon Reuveni, “Die deutsche Nationalbibliothek und die Juden. Anstellungspolitik und Katalogisierung der Deutsche Bücherei in Leipzig als Barometer für den Antisemitismus in der Weimarer Republik,“ in: Stephan Wendenhorst (ed.), Bausteine einer jüdischen Geschichte der Universität Leipzig (Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, 2006), 541–562
- Gideon Reuveni, "Wohlstand durch Konsum: Straβenhandel und Versicherungszeitschriften in den zwanziger Jahren,“ in: Moritz Föllmer and Rüdiger Graf (eds.), Die Krise der Weimar Republik. Zur Kritik eines Deutungsmusters (Frankfurt a.M.: Campus Verlag, 2005), 267–286
- Gideon Reuveni, “Zur Thematisierung des Holocausts", in: Dieter Bingen, Wlodzimierz Borodziej, and Stefan Troebst (eds.), Vertreibungen europäisch erinnern? Historische Erfahrungen – Vergangenheitspolitik – Zukunftskonzeptionen (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 280–283
- * Gideon Reuveni, “Der Aufstieg der Bürgerlichkeit und Bürgerlichen Selbstauflösung. Die Bekämpfung der Schund - und Schmutzschriften in Deutschland bis 1933 als Fallbeispiel", Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 51 (2003), 131–144
- Gideon Reuveni, “Juden und Geld. Mythos und Historiographie," in: Anthony Kauders and Eli Bar-Chen (eds.), Jüdische Studien in Deutschland (Munich: UTZ Verlag, 2003), 47–58
- * Gideon Reuveni, “Lesen im Nachkriegsdeutschland. Geschichtsliteratur in der Weimarer Republik – eine Fall Studie", Archiv für Geschichte des Buchwesens, 56 (2002), 203–225
- * Gideon Reuveni, “Lesen und Konsum. Der Aufsieg der Konsumkultur in Presse und Werbung Deutschlands bis 1933", Archiv für Sozialgeschichte, 41 (2001), 97–119
- * Gideon Reuveni, “Die Abwesenheit der Juden in der deutschen Buchkultur", Menora. Jahrbuch für deutsch-jüdische Geschichte, 12 (2001), 285–296
- * Gideon Reuveni, “Zukunft Ohne Vergangenheit!? Geschichte und nationale Identität in Deutschland und Israel", Evangelische Theologie, 3 (1998), 213–221
- * Gideon Reuveni, “Geschichtsdiskurs und Krisenbewuβtsein: Deutsche Historiographie nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg", Tel Aviv’er Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, (1996), 155–186
In Hebrew:
- Gideon Reuveni, “The German Public Library before 1933,” in: Joseph Kaplan and Moshe Sluchovsky (eds.), Libraries and Book Collections, (Jerusalem: Zalman Shazar Center, 2006), 337–350
- Gideon Reuveni, “The Antisemitic Library? The ‘Deutsche Bücherei’ and the Jews as a Test Case of Antisemitism in Germany,” in: Jacob Borut and Oded Heilbronner (eds.), The German Aantisemitism (Tel-Aviv, Am Oved, 2000), 188–208
- * Gideon Reuveni, "The ‘Book Crisis’ and the Dialectics of Success: Reading as a Barometer of the German Society after World War I", Historia 4 (1999), 73–99