1729 — 1786
1729 — 1786
Founder of the Haskalah, philosopher of religious freedom and translator of the Pentateuch into German.
1859 — 1936
1859 — 1936
Founder of the Jüdischer Frauenbund, social reformer, and translator of early modern Yiddish women's writing into German.
1870 — 1919
1870 — 1919
Anarchist philosopher, translator of Shakespeare and Kropotkin, and short-lived commissioner of the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
1829 — 1902
1829 — 1902
German writer, translator and journalist; pioneer of the women's movement and translator of John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women into German.
1886 — 1929
1886 — 1929
Author of Der Stern der Erlösung and, with Buber, of the Verdeutschung der Schrift — a translation of the Hebrew Bible into a German that listens for its origin.
1894 — 1943
1894 — 1943
Lyric poet whose late work, written under forced labour in Berlin, became one of the most precise records of inner exile.
1892 — 1940
1892 — 1940
Critic, translator and philosopher of language whose Aufgabe des Übersetzers (1923) reframed translation as the afterlife of the original.
1729 — 1786
1729 — 1786
Founder of the Haskalah, philosopher of religious freedom and translator of the Pentateuch into German.
1859 — 1936
1859 — 1936
Founder of the Jüdischer Frauenbund, social reformer, and translator of early modern Yiddish women's writing into German.
1870 — 1919
1870 — 1919
Anarchist philosopher, translator of Shakespeare and Kropotkin, and short-lived commissioner of the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
1829 — 1902
1829 — 1902
German writer, translator and journalist; pioneer of the women's movement and translator of John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women into German.
1886 — 1929
1886 — 1929
Author of Der Stern der Erlösung and, with Buber, of the Verdeutschung der Schrift — a translation of the Hebrew Bible into a German that listens for its origin.
1894 — 1943
1894 — 1943
Lyric poet whose late work, written under forced labour in Berlin, became one of the most precise records of inner exile.
1892 — 1940
1892 — 1940
Critic, translator and philosopher of language whose Aufgabe des Übersetzers (1923) reframed translation as the afterlife of the original.
Lines of inquiry
A triptych of inquiry — translation, exile, memory — read against the long arc of German-Jewish thought.
Translation as Philosophical Practice
Translation is not simply a linguistic operation but a philosophical act that reshapes meaning, identity, and cultural memory.
Thinking from the Border
German-Jewish philosophy emerged from a condition of exile and linguistic in-betweenness. PHIL-TRAGEN explores how displacement became a source of philosophical creativity rather than merely a historical experience.
Recovering Invisible Intellectual Histories
German-Jewish women used translation as a space for philosophical reflection, education, and political agency. Their voices deserve a central place in the history of ideas.
Three gateways
People, places, documents — three doors into the same constellation.
Seven thinkers. Letters, manuscripts, photographs, testimonies of a German-Jewish century.
Browse figures →Migration routes, exile trajectories and translation circuits across two centuries.
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