Richard I. (Hrsg.) Cohen

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 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 between German Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors. More… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Hoffman, Stefani (Hrsg.) / Mendelsohn+, Ezra (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78238-002-3
EAN: 9781782380023
Produktnummer: 16556631
Verlag: Berghahn Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 320 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.1 cm 618 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 618

Über den Autor

Stefani Hoffman is the former director of the Mayrock Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Research at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is co-editor of Insiders and Outsiders: Dilemmas of East European Jewry (with Richard I. Cohen and Jonathan Frankel, 2010).