LEADER 04407nam 22005295 450 001 996445851703316 005 20231129151253.0 010 $a3-11-059308-4 010 $a3-11-059693-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110596939 035 $a(CKB)4100000006999724 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5589566 035 $a(DE-B1597)494061 035 $a(OCoLC)1059279993 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110596939 035 $a(ScCtBLL)6816c32a-e630-4517-a393-3a94b6642bc4 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000006999724 100 $a20181023d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFragile Spaces $eForays into Jewish Memory, European History and Complex Identities /$fSteven E. Aschheim 210 1$aBerlin ;$aBoston :$cDe Gruyter,$d[2018] 210 4$d©2018 215 $a1 online resource (x, 279 pages) 225 0 $aPerspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts ;$v8 311 $a3-11-059545-1 327 $tFrontmatter --$tPreface and Acknowledgments --$tContents --$t1. Introduction --$tPart I History, Memory and Genocide --$t2. The Dialectic of Enlightenment Revisited --$t3. Why the Germans? Why the Jews? The Perennial Holocaust Question --$t4. Lessons of the Holocaust: A Critical Examination --$t5. Empathy, Autobiography and the Tasks and Tensions of the Historian --$tPart II Culture and Complex Identities --$t6. The Weimar Kaleidoscope - And, Incidentally, Frankfurt's Not Minor Place In It --$t7. The Avant-Garde and the Jews --$t8. Vienna: Harbinger of Creativity and Catastrophe --$tPart III Politics --$t9. Between the Particular and the Universal: Rescuing the Particular from the Particularists and the Universal from the Universalists --$t10. Zionism and Europe --$t11. Gershom Scholem and the Left --$tPart IV Scholarly Dilemmas and Personal Confrontations --$t12. Between New York and Jerusalem: Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt --$t13. An Unwritten Letter from Victor Klemperer to Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem --$t14. Moshe Idel and the Critique of German Jewry --$t15. On Grading Jewishness: Pierre Birnbaum's Geography of Hope --$t16. The Memory Man: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and the Fallen Jew --$t17. Of Memory, History - and Eggplants: The Odyssey of Saul Friedländer --$t18. The Modern Jewish Medici: Salman Schocken between Merchandise and Culture --$t19. Hans Jonas and his Troubled Century --$t20. Islamic Jihad, Zionism, and Espionage in the Great War --$tCopyright Acknowledgements --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aThis book consists of a range of essays covering the complex crises, tensions and dilemmas but also the positive potential in the meeting of Jews with Western culture. In numerous contexts and through the work of fascinating individuals and thinkers, the work examines some of the consequences of political, cultural and personal rupture, as well as the manifold ways in which various Jewish intellectuals, politicians (and occasionally spies!) sought to respond to these ruptures and carve out new, sometimes profound, sometimes fanciful, options of thought and action. It also delves critically into the attacks on liberal and Enlightenment humanism. In almost all the essays the fragility of things is palpably present and the book touches on some of the ironies, problematics and functions of responses to that condition. The work mirrors the author's ongoing fascination with the always fraught, fragile and creatively fecund confrontation of Jews (and others) with European modernity, its history, politics, culture and self-definition. In a time of increasing anxiety and feelings of fragility, this work may be helpful in understanding how people at an earlier (and sometimes contemporary) period sought to come to terms with a similar predicament. 410 0$aPerspectives on Jewish texts and contexts (Series) ;$vVolume 8.$x2199-6962 606 $aJews$xIdentity 610 $aGermans. 610 $aHolocaust. 610 $aIntellectuals. 610 $aJews. 615 0$aJews$xIdentity. 676 $a305.8924 700 $aAschheim$b Steven E.$00 712 02$aKnowledge Unlatched$4fnd$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996445851703316 996 $aFragile Spaces$91899583 997 $aUNISA