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Sparks Amidst the Ashes
Author | : Byron L. Sherwin |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) |
ISBN | : 0195106857 |
Sherwin concludes with a controversial proposal for the future of Polish-Jewish relations.
The Legacy of German Jewry
Author | : Hermann Levin Goldschmidt |
Publisher | : Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0823228266 |
This volume is a comprehensive rethinking of the German-Jewish experience. Goldschmidt challenges the elegiac view of Gershom Scholem, showing us the German-Jewish legacy in literature, philosophy and critical thought in a new light.
Preserving the Legacy of German Jewry
Author | : Christhard Hoffmann |
Publisher | : J.C.B. Mohr (P. Siebeck) |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
German Jews
Author | : Paul R. Mendes-Flohr |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300076233 |
In this book the author explores through the prism of Rosenweig's image of how German Jews have understood and contended with their two-fold spiritual patrimony. He deepens the discussion to consider also how the German-Jewish experience bears upon the general random experience of living with multiple cultural identities.
The Mechanics of Change
Author | : Steven M. Lowenstein |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Rabbi Leo Baeck
Author | : Michael A. Meyer |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2020-11-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 081225256X |
Rabbi, educator, intellectual, and community leader, Leo Baeck (1873-1956) was one of the most important Jewish figures of prewar Germany. The publication of his 1905 Das Wesen des Judentums (The Essence of Judaism) established him as a major voice for liberal Judaism. He served as a chaplain to the German army during the First World War and in the years following, resisting the call of political Zionism, he expressed his commitment to the belief in a vibrant place for Jews in a new Germany. This hope was dashed with the rise of Nazism, and from 1933 on, and continuing even after his deportation to Theresienstadt, he worked tirelessly in his capacity as a leader of the German Jewish community to offer his coreligionists whatever practical, intellectual, and spiritual support remained possible. While others after the war worked to rebuild German Jewish life from the ashes, a disillusioned Baeck pronounced the effort misguided and spent the rest of his life in England. Yet his name is perhaps best-known today from the Leo Baeck Institutes in New York, London, Berlin, and Jerusalem dedicated to the preservation of the cultural heritage of German-speaking Jewry. Michael A. Meyer has written a biography that gives equal consideration to Leo Baeck's place as a courageous community leader and as one of the most significant Jewish religious thinkers of the twentieth century, comparable to such better-known figures as Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Abraham Joshua Heschel. According to Meyer, to understand Baeck fully, one must probe not only his thought and public activity but also his personality. Generally described as gentle and kind, he could also be combative when necessary, and a streak of puritanism and an outsized veneration for martyrdom ran through his psychological makeup. Drawing on a broad variety of sources, some coming to light only in recent years, but especially turning to Baeck's own writings, Meyer presents a complex and nuanced image of one of the most noteworthy personalities in the Jewish history of our age.
Brothers and Strangers
Author | : Steven E. Aschheim |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1982-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0299091139 |
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 modern “enlightened” Jewry and its “half-Asian” counterpart. Moreover, stereotypes of the ghetto and the Eastern Jew figured prominently in the growth and disposition of German anti-Semitism. Not everyone shared these negative preconceptions, however, and over the years a competing post-liberal image emerged of the Ostjude as cultural hero. Brothers and Strangers examines the genesis, development, and consequences of these changing forces in their often complex cultural, political, and intellectual contexts.
Gershom Scholem
Author | : Amir Engel |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-10-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022668332X |
Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) was ostensibly a scholar of Jewish mysticism, yet he occupies a powerful role in today’s intellectual imagination, having influential contact with an extraordinary cast of thinkers, including Hans Jonas, Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Theodor Adorno. In this first biography of Scholem, Amir Engel shows how Scholem grew from a scholar of an esoteric discipline to a thinker wrestling with problems that reach to the very foundations of the modern human experience. As Engel shows, in his search for the truth of Jewish mysticism Scholem molded the vast literature of Jewish mystical lore into a rich assortment of stories that unveiled new truths about the modern condition. Positioning Scholem’s work and life within early twentieth-century Germany, Palestine, and later the state of Israel, Engel intertwines Scholem’s biography with his historiographical work, which stretches back to the Spanish expulsion of Jews in 1492, through the lives of Rabbi Isaac Luria and Sabbatai Zevi, and up to Hasidism and the dawn of the Zionist movement. Through parallel narratives, Engel touches on a wide array of important topics including immigration, exile, Zionism, World War One, and the creation of the state of Israel, ultimately telling the story of the realizations—and failures—of a dream for a modern Jewish existence.