Against the grain : Jewish intellectuals in hard times

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Against the grain : Jewish intellectuals in hard times

edited by Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman, and Richard I. Cohen

Berghahn, 2014

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-294) and index

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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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Acknowledgements Editors' Note Chapter 1. Reading Steven Aschheim Ezra Mendelsohn Part I. Strauss, Scholem, Arendt, Benjamin Chapter 2. A Zionist Critique of Jewish Politics: The Early Thought of Leo Strauss Jerry Z. Muller Chapter 3. Leo Strauss Reading Karl Marx during the Cold War Adi Armon Chapter 4. Gershom Scholem, Einst und Jetzt: Zionist Politics and Kabbalistic Historiography David Biale Chapter 5. Death or Birth? Scholem and Secularization Zohar Maor Chapter 6. Fragments from a Correspondence(Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem) - A Poem Zvi Jagendorf Part II. Political Positioning in Hard Times Chapter 7. In Heidegger's Shadow: Ernst Cassirer, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Question of the Political Jeffrey Andrew Barash Chapter 8. Walter Rathenau's Dilemma: Modernity and the Human Soul Shulamit Volkov Chapter 9. "Nothing but a Disillusioned Love"?: Hans Kohn's Break with the Zionist Movement Adi Gordon Chapter 10. Historicism and the Event Martin Jay Part III. Brothers and Strangers: The Issue of Identity Chapter 11. Asiatic Brothers, European Strangers: Eugen Hoeflich and Pan-Asian Zionism in Vienna Hanan Harif Chapter 12. "Brothers and Strangers": The American Example Pierre Birnbaum Chapter 13. "Mann Kann Verjuden": Paradoxes of Exemplarity Vivian Liska Part IV. In the Shadow of the Holocaust Chapter 14. A "Usable Past" and the Crisis of European Jews: Popular Jewish Historiography in Germany, France, and Hungary in the 1930s Guy Miron Chapter 15. Three Jewish Emigres at Nuremberg: Jacob Robinson, Hersch Lauterpacht, and Raphael Lemkin Michael R. Marrus Chapter 16. The Frankfurt School and the 'Jewish Question,' 1940-1970 Anson Rabinbach Chapter 17. Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: Challenges, Limitations, and Opportunities Christopher R. Browning Select Bibliography List of Contributors Index

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