Publications (selection)
Interactive Digital Humanities Database
Books
- Cornelia Wilhelm, The Last Generation of the German Rabbinate: German Refugee Rabbis in the United States, 1933-2010, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2024.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, Pioneers of a New Jewish Identity: The Independent Orders B’nai B’rith and True Sisters,1843-1914 Wayne State University Press, Detroit, MI, 2011.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, Deutsche Juden in Amerika: Bürgerliches Selbstbewusstsein und jüdische Identität in den Orden B’nai B’rith und Treue Schwestern, 1843-1914 (Transatlantische Historische Studien 30), Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 2007.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, German Jews in the United States: A Guide to Archival Collections. Washington, DC: GHI, 2008.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Bewegung oder Verein?" Nationalsozialistische Volkstumspolitik in den USA 1933-1945 (Transatlantische Historische Studien 9). Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag, 1998.
Translation and Edition
- Terry, Jack und Alicia Nitecki, Jakubs Welt [a holocaust survivor's memoir, mainly dealing with the experience in the German concentration camp of Flossenbürg, Bavaria], translated, commented and edited by Cornelia Wilhelm, München: Bayerische Landeszentrale für politische Bildungsarbeit: April 2005.
Edited Volumes
- Cornelia Wilhelm and Sebastian Musch, eds., The Holocaust and Varieties of Migration: Beyond Flight and Displacement, De Gruyter Publishers: Berlin, forthcoming.
- Cornelia Wilhelm (guest editor), European Judaism 54 (2021): The Synagogue and the Legacies of the Holocaust: the German Refugee Rabbis and Cantors.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, ed., Migration, Memory and Diversity: Germany from 1945 to the Present, New York: Berghahn Books, 2017.
- Cornelia Wilhelm und Tobias Grill (guest editors): "The German Rabbinate Abroad", Leo Baeck International Yearbook 57 (2012).
- Cornelia Wilhelm und Tobias Grill (guest editors): "The German Rabbinate Abroad", European Judaism 45 (2012).
- Cornelia Wilhelm and Christian Wiese, eds., American Jewry: Transcending the European Experience? London: Bloomsbury, 2016.
- Marc Lee Raphael and Cornelia Wilhelm, eds., America-From Near and Far: Varieties of American Experience, Williamsburg: Department of Religious Studies, College of Wm. and Mary, 2007.
Edited Volumes in Series New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History
(DeGruyter, Berlin/Boston)
- Arieli, Roni, Remembering the Holocaust in Apartheid South Africa, Berlin: De Gruyter-Oldenbourg, 2022..
- Schippers, Hans, The Westerweel Group: Non-conformist Resistance against Nazi-Germany, Berlin: De Gruyter-Oldenbourg, forthcoming in 2018.
- Grill, Tobias, Germans and Jews in Eastern Europe, Berlin: De Gruyter-Oldenbourg, 2018.
- Krah, Markus, American Jewry and the Re-Invention of the East European Jewish Past, Berlin: De Gruyter-Oldenbourg, 2017.
- Goldstein, Jonathan, Jewish Identities in East and Southeast Asia, Berlin: DeGruyter, 2015.
- Raim, Edith, Nazi Crimes against Jews and German Post-War Justice: The West German Judicial System During Allied Occupation (1945–1949), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014.
- Segev, Zohar, The World Jewish Congress during the Holocaust, Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2014.
- Tamar Lewinsky, East European Jews in Switzerland, New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History 5, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013.
- Anton Hieke, Jewish Identity in the Reconstruction South, New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History 4, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2013.
- Eber, Irene, Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe, (New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History 1), Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2012.
- Fine, David, Jewish Integration in the German Army in the First World War, (New Perspectives on Modern Jewish History 2), Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2012.
Articles in Academic Journals or Anthologies
- Cornelia Wilhelm, “Building a Future for the Past: German Refugee Rabbis in the United States after 1933” in The Holocaust and Varieties of Migration: Beyond Flight and Displacement, Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming.
- Cornelia Wilhelm,”Saved by the Seminary: German Refugee Rabbis’ Careers during and after the Holocaust - a Transnational Perspective”, Academics in a Century of Displacement. The Global History and Politics of Protecting Endangered Scholars, edited by Leyla Dakhli, Pascale Laborier and Frank Wolff, Osnabrück: Springer VS, 2024, 73-95.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "German Refugee Rabbis in the United States and the Formation of “the Last Generation of the German Rabbinate" European Judaism 54 (2021): 6-26.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Introduction," European Judaism 54 (2021): 1-5.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "From Community and Place to Network and Space: The Transnational Dimension of Immigration in American Jewish History", American Jewish History 101 (2017): 545-551.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Introduction", Migration, Memory and Diversity in Germany, in: Contemporary European History, New York: Berghahn Books: New York, 2017, 1-11.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Unequal Opportunities: The Independent Order B'nai B'rith in 19th century Germany and in the United States," American Jewry: Transcending the European Experience? London: Bloomsbury, 2016, 125-135.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Diversity in Germany: A historical perspective" German Politics and Society 31 (2013), 13-29.
- Cornelia Wilhelm and Tobias Grill: "German Rabbis Abroad as Cultural Agents?" European Judaism 45 (2012): 2-7.
- Cornelia Wilhelm and Tobias Grill, "The German Rabbinate Abroad", Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook 57 (2012):1-6.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "German Refugee Rabbis in the United States", European Judaism 45 (2012): 78-89.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "'Der entschiedenste Reformer unter Bayerns Rabbinern'", Bernd Mayer und Frank Piontek, (Hg.), Jüdisches Bayreuth, Bayreuth: Ellwanger 2010, 91-96.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "An Ambivalent Relationship: Isaac M. Wise and the B'nai B'rith" Jonathan Sarna, Pamela Nadell and Lance Sussman (eds.), New Essays in American Jewish History,
- Festschrift for the American Jewish Archives at 60, Cincinnati, 155–173, Cincinnati: American Jewish Archives/KTAV, 2010, 155-173.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Die Emigration der fränkischen Juden im 19. Jahrhundert nach Amerika", Michael Brenner und Daniela Eisenstein (ed.), Juden in Franken, München: Oldenbourg 2012, 169-180.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "America as 'the West'", Marc L. Raphael and Cornelia Wilhelm, eds., America-From Near and Far: Varieties of American Experience, Department of Religious Studies, College of William and Mary: Williamsburg,VA, 2007, 89-98.
- Simone Lässig und Cornelia Wilhelm, "German Jews in the United States: A Guide to Research Resources", Bulletin of the GHI 39, Fall 2006, 101-105.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Gemeinschaft in der Moderne – Jüdische Solidarität im Unabhängigen Orden B'nai B'rith", C.v.Braun/W.Gräb/J. Zachhuber (Hrsg.), Säkularisierung. Bilanz und Perspektiven, Münster: LIT 2006, 129-138.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Der amerikanische Cowboy, 1840-1900: Die sozialgeschichtliche Realität und Bedeutung eines amerikanischen Helden", in Reinhard Jakob (Hrsg.), Cowboy und Hirtamadl. Hirten zwischen Texas und Dünzelbach (Jexhof Hefte 22), Fürstenfeldbruck 2006, 11-21.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Durch die Liebe zur neuen Weiblichkeit? Jüdische Freimaurerinnen in Chicago" Tales of Two Cities, Münster: Lit, 2006, 139-150.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Juden und Freimaurer? – Wesen, Genese und Selbstverständnis des Unabhängigen Orden B’nai B’rith als erster jüdischer Orden, 1843 – 1914", Internationale Zeitschrift für Freimaurerforschung 13 (2005): 49-77.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Auswanderung aus Bayern und Einwanderung in Nordamerika im Spiegel der Gesetze, 1683-2003", in: Hamm, Margot, Michael Henker, Evamaria Brockhoff (Hrsg.), Good Bye Bayern, Grüß Gott America, Auswanderung aus Bayern nach Amerika seit 1683, Augsburg: Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte, 37- 42.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Die alliierte Entnazifizierungspolitik als Modell?" in: H. Möller, M. Kittel, J. Pesek, und O. Tuma (Hrsg.), Deutschsprachige Minderheiten 1945. Ein europäischer Vergleich, in German and Czech language, München/Prag: Oldenbourg, 2006, 347-371.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Nazi Propaganda and the Uses of the Past: Heinz Kloss and the Making of a German America", Amerikastudien 47 (2002): 55-83 .
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Community in Modernity: Finding Jewish Solidarity within the Independent Order B'nai B'rith" Jahrbuch des Simon-Dubnow-Institut für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur 1 (2001): 297-319.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Shaping American Jewish Identity: The Independent Order B'nai B'rith", Christof Mauch and Joe Salmons, eds., German-Jewish Identities in America: From the Civil War to the Present, Madison: Max Kade Institute, 2003: 64-87.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "The Independent Order of True Sisters: Friendship, Fraternity and a Model of Modernity for 19thcentury American-Jewish Womanhood", American Jewish Archives 54 (2002): 37-63.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Ethnic Germans as Instruments of German Intelligence Services in the USA, 1933-1945", in: Heike Bungert, Jan G. Heitmann and Michael Wala, eds., Secret Intelligence in the Twentieth Century, London, Portland OR: Frank Cass, 2003, 35-57.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Von der Volksgeschichte zur Volkstumspolitik: Heinz Kloss und die volkspolitische Mobilisation des Deutschamerikanertums 1933-1945", in: Michael Wala (Hrsg.), Gesellschaft und Diplomatie im transatlantischen Kontext, Festschrift für Reinhard R. Doerries zum 65. Geburtstag, (USA-Studien 11), Stuttgart: Steiner, 1999, 181-204.
- Cornelia Wilhelm, "Deutschamerikaner zwischen Nationalsozialismus und 'Amerikanismus'" in: Horst Möller, Walther Ziegler und Andreas Wirsching (Hrsg.), Nationalsozialismus in der Region (Schriftenreihe der Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte) München: Oldenbourg, 1996, 287-302.
TV-Documentary
- Documentary "Nazi America: A Secret History", American History Channel by Termite Arts Productions, 2000, 93 minutes.
- Documentary "The American Führer", by Annette Baumeister, Tangram Dokumentarfilm München, 2022, 45 min.