TY  - GEN
T1  - Beyond the border : the German-Jewish legacy abroad
A1  - Aschheim, Steven E., 1942-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1041853356
AB  - The modern German-Jewish experience through the rise of Nazism in 1933 was characterized by an explosion of cultural and intellectual creativity. Yet well after that history has ended, the influence of Weimar German-Jewish intellectuals has become ever greater. Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Leo Strauss have become household names and possess a continuing resonance. Beyond the Border seeks to explain this phenomenon and analyze how the German-Jewish legacy has continuingly permeated wider modes of Western thought and sensibility, and why these émigrés occupy an increasingly iconic place in contemporary society. Steven Aschheim traces the odyssey of a fascinating group of German-speaking Zionists--among them Martin Buber and Hans Kohn--who recognized the moral dilemmas of Jewish settlement in pre-Israel Palestine and sought a binationalist solution to the Arab-Israel conflict. He explores how German-Jewish émigré historians like Fritz Stern and George Mosse created a new kind of cultural history written against the background of their exile from Nazi Germany and in implicit tension with postwar German social historians. And finally, he examines the reasons behind the remarkable contemporary canonization of these Weimar intellectuals--from Arendt to Strauss--within Western academic and cultural life. Beyond the Border is about more than the physical act of departure. It also points to the pioneering ways these émigrés questioned normative cognitive boundaries and have continued to play a vital role in addressing the predicaments that engage and perplex us today.
CN  - DS134.22
SN  - 9780691186320
SN  - 0691186324
KW  - Jews : Germany : History : 20th century.
KW  - Jews : Germany : Intellectual life : 20th century.
KW  - Jews, German : History : 20th century.
KW  - Zionists : Germany : History : 20th century.
KW  - Jewish refugees : Europe : History : 20th century.
KW  - Civilization, Modern : Jewish influences.
KW  - Germany : Ethnic relations.
KW  - Juifs : Allemagne : Vie intellectuelle : 20e siècle.
KW  - Juifs allemands : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Réfugiés juifs : Europe : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Civilisation moderne et contemporaine : Influence juive.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Discrimination & Race Relations.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Minority Studies.
KW  - HISTORY : Europe : Germany.
KW  - Civilization, Modern : Jewish influences
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  - Jewish refugees
KW  - Jews
KW  - Jews, German
KW  - Jews : Intellectual life
KW  - Zionists
KW  - Europe
KW  - Germany
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -