Asset Details
Do you wish to reserve the book?
Beyond the Border : The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad
Hey, we have placed the reservation for you!
By the way, why not check out events that you can attend while you pick your title.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place the reservation. Kindly try again later.
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
Beyond the Border : The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad
Do you wish to request the book?
Beyond the Border : The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad
Please be aware that the book you have requested cannot be checked out. If you would like to checkout this book, you can reserve another copy
We have requested the book for you!
Your request is successful and it will be processed during the Library working hours. Please check the status of your request in My Requests.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place your request. Kindly try again later.
eBook
Beyond the Border : The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad
2007,2018
Overview
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.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Subject
/ Borders
/ Civilization, Modern -- Jewish influences
/ Europe
/ Germany
/ History
/ Jewish refugees -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
/ Jews
/ Jews -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
/ Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
/ Jews, German -- History -- 20th century
/ Judaism
/ Refugees
/ Zionism
/ Zionists
ISBN
9780691122236, 0691122237, 0691186324, 9780691186320
