Catastrophe and utopia : Jewish intellectuals in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s
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Catastrophe and utopia : Jewish intellectuals in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s
edited by Ferenc Laczó and Joachim von Puttkamer
（Europas Osten im 20. Jahrhundert : Schriften des Imre Kertész Kollegs Jena = Eastern Europe in the twentieth century : publications of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena, Bd. 7）
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, c2018
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"Some of the core ideas of this volume were first raised at the panel 'Catastrophe and Engagement: On Jewish IntellectualTrajectories', which was part of Catastrophe and Utopia : Central and Eastern European Intellectural Horizons, 1933 to 1958, the 2013 annual conference of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena held in cooperation with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest."--Foreword (p. [v])
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Description
Catastrophe and Utopia studies the biographical trajectories, intellectual agendas, and major accomplishments of select Jewish intellectuals during the age of Nazism, and the partly simultaneous, partly subsequent period of incipient Stalinization. By focusing on the relatively underexplored region of Central and Eastern Europe - which was the primary centre of Jewish life prior to the Holocaust, served as the main setting of the Nazi genocide, but also had notable communities of survivors - the volume offers significant contributions to a European Jewish intellectual history of the twentieth century. Approaching specific historical experiences in their diverse local contexts, the twelve case studies explore how Jewish intellectuals responded to the unprecedented catastrophe, how they renegotiated their utopian commitments and how the complex relationship between the two evolved over time. They analyze proximate Jewish reactions to the most abysmal discontinuity represented by the Judeocide while also revealing more subtle lines of continuity in Jewish thinking.
Ferenc Laczo is assistant professor in History at Maastricht University and Joachim von Puttkamer is professor of Eastern European History at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and director of the Imre Kertesz Kolleg.
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