@Book{1042460612,
author="Aschheim, Steven E.",
title="Fragile spaces: forays into jewish memory, european history and complex identities",
series="Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts 8",
year="2018",
publisher="De Gruyter",
address="Berlin",
keywords="Collective memory; Jewish diaspora; Jews; History; Identity; Germans; Holocaust; Intellectuals; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies",
contents="Frontmatter -- -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- -- Contents -- -- 1. Introduction -- -- Part I History, Memory and Genocide -- -- 2. The Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited -- -- 3. Why the Germans? Why the Jews? The Perennial Holocaust Question -- -- 4. Lessons of the Holocaust: A Critical Examination -- -- 5. Empathy, Autobiography and the Tasks and Tensions of the Historian -- -- Part II Culture and Complex Identities -- -- 6. The Weimar Kaleidoscope -- And, Incidentally, Frankfurt's Not Minor Place In It -- -- 7. The Avant-Garde and the Jews -- -- 8. Vienna: Harbinger of Creativity and Catastrophe -- -- Part III Politics -- -- 9. Between the Particular and the Universal: Rescuing the Particular from the Particularists and the Universal from the Universalists -- -- 10. Zionism and Europe -- -- 11. Gershom Scholem and the Left -- -- Part IV Scholarly Dilemmas and Personal Confrontations -- -- 12. Between New York and Jerusalem: Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt -- -- 13. An Unwritten Letter from Victor Klemperer to Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem -- -- 14. Moshe Idel and the Critique of German Jewry -- -- 15. On Grading Jewishness: Pierre Birnbaum's Geography of Hope -- -- 16. The Memory Man: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Fallen Jew -- -- 17. Of Memory, History -- and Eggplants: The Odyssey of Saul Friedl{\"a}nder -- -- 18. The Modern Jewish Medici: Salman Schocken between Merchandise and Culture -- -- 19. Hans Jonas and his Troubled Century -- -- 20. Islamic Jihad, Zionism, and Espionage in the Great War -- -- Copyright Acknowledgements -- -- Index -- -- About the Author",
abstract="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!) sought to respond to these ruptures and carve out new, sometimes profound, sometimes fanciful, options of thought and action. It also delves critically into the attacks on liberal and Enlightenment humanism. In almost all the essays the fragility of things is palpably present and the book touches on some of the ironies, problematics and functions of responses to that condition. The work mirrors the author's ongoing fascination with the always fraught, fragile and creatively fecund confrontation of Jews (and others) with European modernity, its history, politics, culture and self-definition. In a time of increasing anxiety and feelings of fragility, this work may be helpful in understanding how people at an earlier (and sometimes contemporary) period sought to come to terms with a similar predicament.",
note="Steven E. Aschheim",
note="Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.",
isbn="9783110596939",
doi="10.1515/9783110596939",
url="https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110596939",
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url="https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110596939",
language="English"
}