Title Against the Grain : Jewish Intellectuals in Hard Times

Published Berghahn Books, 2013

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Description 1 online resource Contents Acknowledgments; Editors' Note; Introduction; Part I. Strauss, Scholem, Arendt, Benjamin; 1. A Zionist Critique of Jewish Politics; 2. Leo Strauss Reading Karl Marx during the Cold War; 3. Gershom Scholem, Einst und Jetzt; 4. Death or Birth; 5. Fragments from a Correspondence (Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem); Part II. Political Positioning in Hard Times; 6. In Heidegger's Shadow; 7. Walther Rathenau's Dilemma; 8. "Nothing But a Disillusioned Love"?; 9. Historicism and the Event; Part III. Brothers and Strangers; 10. Asiatic Brothers, European Strangers 11. "Brothers and Strangers"12. "Man kann verjuden"; Part IV. In the Shadow of the Holocaust; 13. A "Usable Past" and the Crisis of European Jews; 14. Three Jewish Émigrés at Nuremberg; 15. The Frankfurt School and the "Jewish Question," 1940-1970; 16. Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony; Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Aschheim, Steven E., 1942- -- Political and social views Strauss, Leo -- Political and social views SUBJECT Aschheim, Steven E., 1942- fast Strauss, Leo fast Subject Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence. Intellectuals -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Political culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Jews, East European -- Germany SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century. Ethnic relations Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Intellectual life Jews, East European Jews -- Intellectual life Political and social views Political culture SUBJECT Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85054610 Germany -- Ethnic relations Subject Germany Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 1299954588 9781299954588 9781782380030 1782380035

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