The newest volume of the Simon Dubnow Yearbook has one major theme: It looks at the 100th anniversary of the beginning of what came to be called the “Great Seminal Catastrophe” – World War I. The discussion is centered around the multifaceted literary processing of war and war experiences. In the General Section and in the other sections of this Yearbook there are contributions on historical semantics and conversion history as well as on Richard Koebner, Max Horkheimer and Ruth Fischer.