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1 online resource |
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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 |
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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 |
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Aschheim, Steven E., 1942- -- Political and social views
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Strauss, Leo -- Political and social views
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Aschheim, Steven E., 1942- |
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Strauss, Leo |
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Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
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Intellectuals -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Political culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Jews, East European -- Germany
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
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Ethnic relations
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Intellectual life
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Jews, East European
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Jews -- Intellectual life
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Political and social views
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Political culture
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Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Germany -- Ethnic relations
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Germany
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1299954588 |
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9781299954588 |
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9781782380030 |
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1782380035 |
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