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Against the grain : Jewish intellectuals in hard times
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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 thin...
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 betwe
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- Creator
- edited by Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman, and Richard I. Cohen
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2014
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (320 p.)
- ISBNs
- 1299954588, 1782380035, 9781782380023, 1782380027, 9781782380030
- OCLC
- ocn859837428, ocn828333950
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- English
- Part I. Strauss, Scholem, Arendt, Benjamin -- Part II. Political positioning in hard times -- Part III. Brothers and strangers: the issue of identity -- Part IV. In the shadow of the Holocaust
Subjects
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
- Jews, East European -- Germany.
- Intellectuals -- Political aspects -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
- Political culture -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
- Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life.
- Germany -- Ethnic relations.
- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
- Strauss, Leo -- Political and social views.
- Aschheim, Steven E., 1942- -- Political and social views.