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"Die unterschiedlichen Quellen des Judenhasses finden mit den medialen Möglichkeiten des 21. Jahrhunderts einen nie gekannten Resonanzboden, der Anonymität wahrt und Reichweite ermöglicht. Latente und virulente antisemitische Stereotype werden mit aktuellen Bezügen aufgeladen und verstärkt. Mon ... more
"This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of constructions and processes related to digital media and religion in Asia today. Individual chapters present case studies from various regions and religious traditions in Asia, critically discussing the ... more
"In both visual and linguistic forms, graphic narratives reveal representational strategies to encounter the sacred in all its ambivalence. Through close readings and critical inquiry, these essays contemplate the intersections between religion and comics in ways that critically expand our ability t ... more

Spiritual News: Reporting Religion Around the World

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), vii, 418 pp.
"The media's coverage of religion is an important question, given the central role which news media play in ensuring that people are up-to-date with religion news developments. The book examines it in different countries. After an introductory section looking at trends in religion news in print, on- ... more
"In this volume, contributors consider the ways that Jewish communities and users of new media negotiate their uses of digital technologies in light of issues related to religious identity, community and authority. Digital Judaism presents a broad analysis of how and why various Jewish groups negoti ... more
"The aim of this report is to illustrate, on the basis of online hate speech examples from six countries - Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain -, patterns of cyber hate against four communities. The topics that will be subsequently analysed are: antisemitism, antiziganism, h ... more
"Religious communities have ongoing concerns about Internet use, as it intensifies the clash between tradition and modernity, a clash often found in traditionally inclined societies. Nevertheless, as websites become more useful and widely accessible, religious and communal stakeholders have continuo ... more
"In their article on 'Building the Sacred Community Online', Oren Golan and Nurit Stadler zoom in on the latest attempts of Chabad, the extrovert Jewish Hasidic group, to harness the newest digital technologies to propagate and popularize its staunchly traditionalist reading of Jewish heritage. Also ... more

The Sacred Book

In: The Book: A Global History
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013), pp. 19-38
"This article attempts to extrapolate from the Jewish Tradition a Jewish view on the Internet. To be contrasted are the Orthodox stream, itself broken into the ultra-Orthodox Haredi and Modern Orthodox (dati leumi), and the non-Orthodox streams, the Reform and Conservative [...] This essay will exam ... more

Visions, Images, and Dreams: Yiddish Film, Past and Present

Teaneck, New Jers.: Holmes & Meier, revised and expanded ed. (2011), xvi, 272 pp.
"In insgesamt zehn Stationen unternimmt die Ausstellung eine mentalitätsgeschichtliche Reise in unsere heimischen Wohnzimmer und zeichnet dabei filmische Strategien bei der fiktiven Darstellung "jüdischer" Themen und Figuren nach. Populären Persönlichkeiten der Medienöffentlichkeit, wie etwa de ... more
"Since the mid-1990s, the influence of satellite television broadcasting in the Middle East has become central to the shaping of public attitudes in the region and beyond. While many of the main influential mainstream satellite channels are news-focused, entertainment and religious broadcasting are ... more
"This book contains the presentations of a Roundtable of invited scholars organized by the FABC-Office of Social Communication (FABC-OSC) October 3-7, 2005 at Assumption University Huamak campus in Bangkok, in cooperation with the Graduate School of Philisophy and Religion of Assumption University a ... more
"Nicola Galliner, die Gründerin und Leiterin des Jewish Film Festival Berlin (JFFB), hat nun im Bebra Verlag den Jubiläumsband herausgegeben, um die Geschichte einer Dekade dieses in Deutschland einzigartigen Filmfestes zu gebührend zu würdigen. Verschiedenste Kulturschaffende und Wissenschaftle ... more