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Armon, Adi
[Contributor];
Barash, Jeffrey Andrew
[Contributor];
Biale, David
[Contributor];
Birnbaum, Pierre
[Contributor];
Browning, Christopher R.
[Contributor];
Cohen, Richard I.
[Editor];
Gordon, Adi
[Contributor];
Harif, Hanan
[Contributor];
Hoffman, Stefani
[Editor];
Jagendorf, Zvi
[Contributor];
Jay, Martin
[Contributor];
Liska, Vivian
[Contributor];
Maor, Zohar
[Contributor];
Marrus, Michael R.
[Contributor];
Mendelsohn, Ezra
[Contributor];
Mendelsohn, Ezra
[Editor];
Miron, Guy
[Contributor];
Muller, Jerry Z.
[Contributor];
Rabinbach, Anson
[Contributor];
Volkov, Shulamit
[Contributor]
Against the Grain
: Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times
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- Media type: E-Book
- Title: Against the Grain : Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times
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Contains:
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Editors’ Note
Introduction: Reading Steven Aschheim
Part I Strauss, Scholem, Arendt, Benjamin
Chapter 1 A Zionist Critique of Jewish Politics: The Early Thought of Leo Strauss
Chapter 2 Leo Strauss Reading Karl Marx during the Cold War
Chapter 3 Gershom Scholem, Einst und Jetzt: Zionist Politics and Kabbalistic Historiography
Chapter 4 Death or Birth: Scholem and Secularization
Chapter 5 Fragments from a Correspondence (Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem) A Poem
Part II Politica Positioning in Hard Times
Chapter 6 In Heidegger’s Shadow: Ernst Cassirer, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Question of the Political
Chapter 7 Walther Rathenau’s Dilemma: Modernity and the Human Soul
Chapter 8 “Nothing But a Disillusioned Love”? Hans Kohn’s Break with the Zionist Movement
Chapter 9 Historicism and the Event
Part III Brothers and Strangers: The Issue of Identity
Chapter 10 Asiatic Brothers, European Strangers: Eugen Hoeflich and Pan-Asian Zionism in Vienna
Chapter 11 “Brothers and Strangers” The American Example
Chapter 12 “Man Kann Verjuden” Paradoxes of Exemplarity
Part IV In the Shadow of the Holocaust
Chapter 13 A “Usable Past” and the Crisis of European Jews: Popular Jewish Historiography in Germany, France, and Hungary in the 1930s
Chapter 14 Three Jewish Émigrés at Nuremberg: Jacob Robinson, Hersch Lauterpacht, and Raphael Lemkin
Chapter 15 The Frankfurt School and the “Jewish Question,” 1940–1970
Chapter 16 Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: Challenges, Limitations, and Opportunities
Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Index
- Contributor: Armon, Adi [MitwirkendeR]; Barash, Jeffrey Andrew [MitwirkendeR]; Biale, David [MitwirkendeR]; Birnbaum, Pierre [MitwirkendeR]; Browning, Christopher R. [MitwirkendeR]; Cohen, Richard I. [HerausgeberIn]; Gordon, Adi [MitwirkendeR]; Harif, Hanan [MitwirkendeR]; Hoffman, Stefani [HerausgeberIn]; Jagendorf, Zvi [MitwirkendeR]; Jay, Martin [MitwirkendeR]; Liska, Vivian [MitwirkendeR]; Maor, Zohar [MitwirkendeR]; Marrus, Michael R. [MitwirkendeR]; Mendelsohn, Ezra [MitwirkendeR]; Mendelsohn, Ezra [HerausgeberIn]; Miron, Guy [MitwirkendeR]; Muller, Jerry Z. [MitwirkendeR]; Rabinbach, Anson [MitwirkendeR]; Volkov, Shulamit [MitwirkendeR]
- imprint: New York; Oxford: Berghahn Books, [2013]
- Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (320 p.)
- Language: English
- DOI: 10.1515/9781782380030
- ISBN: 9781782380030
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- Keywords: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence ; Holocaust, Jewish Influence ; Intellectuals Political aspects Germany History 20th century ; Jews Germany Intellectual life ; Jews, East European Germany ; Political culture Germany History 20th century ; HISTORY / Jewish
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Footnote:
In English
- Description: Highlighting the seminal role of German Jewish intellectuals and ideologues in forming and transforming the modern Jewish world, this volume analyzes the political roads taken by German Jewish thinkers; the impact of the Holocaust on the Central and East European Jewish intelligentsia; and the conundrum of modern Jewish identity. Several of German Jewry’s most outstanding figures such as Scholem, Strauss, and Kohn are discussed. Inspired by Steven E. Aschheim’s work, several contributors focus on the fraught relationship between German and East European Jews (the so-called Ostjuden) and between German Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors. More generally, this book examines how Central European Jewish thinkers reacted to the terrible crises of the twentieth century—to war, genocide, and the existential threat to the very existence of the Jewish people. It is essential reading for those interested in the triumphs and tragedies of modern European Jewry
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