The German-Jewish Experience Revisited

book: The German-Jewish Experience Revisited

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2015

The German-Jewish Experience Revisited

Edited by: Steven E. Aschheim and Vivian Liska
In collaboration with: Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem

Volume 3 in the series Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110367195

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About this book

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 reason, from the eighteenth century through to our own time it has been the object of intense reflection, of clashing interpretations and appropriations. In both micro and macro case-studies, this volume engages the multiple perspectives as advocated by manifold interested actors, and analyzes their uses, biases and ideological functions over time in different cultural, disciplinary and national contexts. This volume includes both historical treatments of differing German-Jewish understandings of their experience – their relations to their Judaism, general culture and to other Jews – and contemporary reflections and competing interpretations as to how to understand the overall experience of German Jewry.

Author / Editor information

Steven E. Aschheim, Hebrew University, Israel; Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp, Belgium.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Preface Open Access Download PDF	v
Contents Open Access Download PDF	vii
The Jews as Educators of Humanity – a Christian-Philosemitic Grand Narrative of Jewish Modernity? Ofri Ilany Open Access Download PDF	1
Transfers of Categories: the German-Jewish Experience and Beyond Moshe Idel Open Access Download PDF	15
German Classicism and Judaism Bernd Witte Open Access Download PDF	45
Aliens vs. Predators: Cosmopolitan Jews vs. Jewish Nomads Sander L. Gilman Open Access Download PDF	59
Between Decay and Doom: Zionist Discourses of “Untergang” in Germany, 1890 to 1933 Stefan Vogt Open Access Download PDF	75
Popular Entertainment and Mass Media: The Central Arenas of German-Jewish Cultural Engagement Peter Jelavich Open Access Download PDF	103
Aby Warburg and Weimar Jewish Culture: Navigating Normative Narratives, Counternarratives, and Historical Context Emily J. Levine Open Access Download PDF	117
The Jewish Places of Weimar Cinema: Reconsidering Karl Grune’s The Street Ofer Ashkenazi Open Access Download PDF	135
Jewish Liberalism in the Weimar Republic? Reconsidering a Key Element of Political Culture in the Interwar Era Jens Hacke Open Access Download PDF	155
History in the House of the Hangman: How Po stwar Germany Became a Key Site for the Study of Jewish History Till van Rahden Open Access Download PDF	171
Non-Jewish Perspectives on German-Jewish History. A Generational Project? Stefanie Schüler-Springorum Open Access Download PDF	193
Rabbi S. R. Hirsch and his Perception of Germany and German Jewry Matthias Morgenstern Open Access Download PDF	207
Between East and West: Pauline Wengeroff and her Cultural History of the Jews of Russia Shulamit S. Magnus Open Access Download PDF	231
The Anti-Nazi Plays of Habimah during the 1930s and the Making of Eretz-Israel Bildung Shelly Zer-Zion Open Access Download PDF	247
Berlin and Jerusalem: Toward German-Hebrew Studies Amir Eshel and Na’ama Rokem Open Access Download PDF	265
Postscript Steven E. Aschheim and Vivian Liska Open Access Download PDF	273
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	277

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars and Students of German, Jewish and German-Jewish studies, modern intellectual history and cultural studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 280
Keywords: German-Jewish Intellectuals; Jewish Modernity

eBook

Published: September 14, 2015
ISBN: 9783110367195

Hardcover

Published: August 28, 2015
ISBN: 9783110372939

Paperback

Published: November 7, 2017
ISBN: 9783110578614