Fragile Spaces : Forays into Jewish Memory, European History and Complex Identities /

This book consists of a range of essays covering the complex crises, tensions and dilemmas but also the positive potential in the meeting of Jews with Western culture. In numerous contexts and through the work of fascinating individuals and thinkers, the work examines some of the consequences of pol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aschheim, Steven E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]
Colección:Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts (Series) ; v. 8.
Temas:
Jews > Identity.
Collective memory.
Juifs > Identité.
Mémoire collective.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Collective memory
Jews > Identity
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I History, Memory and Genocide
  • 2. The Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited
  • 3. Why the Germans? Why the Jews? The Perennial Holocaust Question
  • 4. Lessons of the Holocaust: A Critical Examination
  • 5. Empathy, Autobiography and the Tasks and Tensions of the Historian
  • Part II Culture and Complex Identities
  • 6. The Weimar Kaleidoscope
  • And, Incidentally, Frankfurt's Not Minor Place In It
  • 7. The Avant-Garde and the Jews
  • 8. Vienna: Harbinger of Creativity and Catastrophe
  • Part III Politics
  • 9. Between the Particular and the Universal: Rescuing the Particular from the Particularists and the Universal from the Universalists
  • 10. Zionism and Europe
  • 11. Gershom Scholem and the Left
  • Part IV Scholarly Dilemmas and Personal Confrontations
  • 12. Between New York and Jerusalem: Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt
  • 13. An Unwritten Letter from Victor Klemperer to Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem
  • 14. Moshe Idel and the Critique of German Jewry
  • 15. On Grading Jewishness: Pierre Birnbaum's Geography of Hope
  • 16. The Memory Man: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Fallen Jew
  • 17. Of Memory, History
  • and Eggplants: The Odyssey of Saul Friedländer
  • 18. The Modern Jewish Medici: Salman Schocken between Merchandise and Culture
  • 19. Hans Jonas and his Troubled Century
  • 20. Islamic Jihad, Zionism, and Espionage in the Great War
  • Copyright Acknowledgements
  • Index
  • About the Author.

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