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The nineteenth- and twentieth-century relationship between European culture, German history, and the Jewish experience produced some of the West s most powerful and enduring intellectual creations and, perhaps in subtly paradoxical and interrelated ways, our century s darkest genocidal moments. In Times of Crisis explores the flashpoints of this vexed relationship, mapping the coordinates of a complex triangular encounter of immense historical...

Das Drama der europäischen und jüdischen Erfahrung im 20. Jahrhundert Nach der erfreulichen Resonanz, die Steven Aschheims Studie "Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer" bei der deutschsprachigen Leserschaft erfahren hat, wird nun auch eine Auswahl seiner wichtigsten ideen- und kulturhistorischen Arbeiten vorgelegt. Diese Studien reichen von den Erfahrungen in den ostjüdischen Schtetl über den Zionismus als Befreiungsbewegung, die ikonischen jüdischen I...

Jüdisch- und Deutschsein prägten schicksalhaft die Leben dreier herausragender Intellektueller - Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt und Victor Klemperer. Der israelische Historiker Steven Aschheim berichtet von der schwierigen Suche nach Identität in der Epoche der Shoah in Form einer komplexen "Geschichte von innen". Sein Blick in die Briefe und Tagebücher offenbart die Kämpfe, Konflikte und persönlichen Schwankungen der drei Protagonisten, die e...

This book covers 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 thinkers, the work examines some of the consequences of political, cultural and personal rupture, as well as the manifold ways in which various Jewish intellectuals sought to respond to these ruptures and carve out new options of thought and action.

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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 political, cultural and personal rupture, as well as the manifold ways in which various Jewish intellectuals, politicians (and occasionally spies!) so...

In the past decades the "German-Jewish phenomenon" (Derrida) has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars from various fields: Jewish studies, intellectual history, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, critical theory. In all its complex dimensions, the post-enlightenment German-Jewish experience is overwhelmingly regarded as the most quintessential and charged meeting of Jews with the project of modernity. Perhaps for this reaso...

How three prominent German-Jewish intellectuals confronted Nazism, as revealed by their intimate writings.

The nineteenth- and twentieth-century relationship between European culture, German history, and the Jewish experience produced some of the West's most powerful and enduring intellectual creations -- and, perhaps in subtly paradoxical and interrelated ways, our century's darkest genocidal moments. In Times of Crisis explores the flashpoints of this vexed relationship.In essays that range from the question of Nietzsche's legacy to the controver...

Our understanding of culture and of the catastrophe unleashed by National Socialism have always been regarded as interrelated. For all its brutality, Nazism always spoke in the name of the great German tradition, often using such "high culture" to justify atrocities committed. Were not such actions necessary for the defense of classical cultural values and ideal images against the polluted, degenerate groups who sought to sully and defile them...

Our understanding of culture and of the catastrophe unleashed by National Socialism have always been regarded as interrelated. For all its brutality, Nazism always spoke in the name of the great German tradition, often using such "high culture" to justify atrocities committed. Were not such actions necessary for the defense of classical cultural values and ideal images against the polluted, degenerate groups who sought to sully and defile them...

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In the past decades the "German-Jewish phenomenon" (Derrida) has increasingly attracted the attention of scholars from various fields: Jewish studies, intellectual history, philosophy, literary and cultural studies, critical theory. In all its complex dimensions, the post-enlightenment German-Jewish experience is overwhelmingly regarded as the most quintessential and charged meeting of Jews with the project of modernity. Perhaps for this reaso...

This book revolves around the intricate interplay between culture and catastrophe. It seeks to engage the various permutations, the complexity and the unresolved dimensions of this connection, especially as it relates to the origins, disposition and aftermath of National Socialism. It examines various German and Jewish responses to Nazism and its roots, and demonstrates the ongoing relevance of that experience to contemporary culture and colle...

Brothers and Strangers" traces the history of German Jewish attitudes, policies, and stereotypical images toward Eastern European Jews, demonstrating the ways in which the historic rupture between Eastern and Western Jewry developed as a function of modernism and its imperatives. By the 1880s, most German Jews had inherited and used such negative images to symbolize rejection of their own ghetto past and to emphasize the contrast between moder...