This "Cabinet of Mirrors" investigates the origins and history of German textbook narratives on 'Islam' as well as German Jews. It starts from the question when and how German traditional views were first turned into a textbook account of events and what happened to such narratives once they were available.
Around 1700, the 'Islam' narrative made its first appearance into Protestant and Catholic textbooks, where it served as a confessional weapon against the other creed and as a result received partial colourings.
On a different note, a hundred years later the narrative on Jews made its appearance into the textbooks in the spirit of German Enlightenment, urging German pedagogues to raise critical questions about the abhorrent situation in which their Jewish neighbours were forced to live.
The chapters recount these different beginnings, following them through time, and noting the many changes the narratives underwent in the nineteenth and twentieth century as a result of changing politics and society.
In German. 189 pp.
Around 1700, the 'Islam' narrative made its first appearance into Protestant and Catholic textbooks, where it served as a confessional weapon against the other creed and as a result received partial colourings.
On a different note, a hundred years later the narrative on Jews made its appearance into the textbooks in the spirit of German Enlightenment, urging German pedagogues to raise critical questions about the abhorrent situation in which their Jewish neighbours were forced to live.
The chapters recount these different beginnings, following them through time, and noting the many changes the narratives underwent in the nineteenth and twentieth century as a result of changing politics and society.
In German. 189 pp.
