{"product_id":"against-the-grain-jewish-intellectuals-in-hard-times-9781782380023","title":"Against the Grain: Jewish Intellectuals in Hard","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tHighlighting the seminal role of German Jewish intellectuals and ideologues in forming and transforming the modern Jewish world, this volume analyzes the political roads taken by German Jewish thinkers; the impact of the Holocaust on the Central and East European Jewish intelligentsia; and the conundrum of modern Jewish identity. Several of German Jewry’s most outstanding figures such as Scholem, Strauss, and Kohn are discussed. Inspired by Steven E. Aschheim’s work, several contributors focus on the fraught relationship between German and East European Jews (the so-called \u003cem\u003eOstjuden\u003c\/em\u003e) and between German Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors. More generally, this book examines how Central European Jewish thinkers reacted to the terrible crises of the twentieth century—to war, genocide, and the existential threat to the very existence of the Jewish people. It is essential reading for those interested in the triumphs and tragedies of modern European Jewry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“…a stellar anthology that belongs not only in every university library but also in the libraries of Jewish institutions serving serious readers.”\u003cstrong\u003e  ·  Jewish Book World\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“[T]he essays are well-written, clear, and interesting…the collection reads well and is informed by a high level of scholarship and expertise and has a diversity that should appeal to many readers\u003c\/em\u003e.”  \u003cstrong\u003e·  Michael L. Morgan\u003c\/strong\u003e, Chancellor’s Professor, Emeritus, Indiana University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e \tEditors’ Note\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eReading Steven Aschheim\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEzra Mendelsohn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I. Strauss, Scholem, Arendt, Benjamin\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eA Zionist Critique of Jewish Politics: The Early Thought of Leo Strauss\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJerry Z. Muller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eLeo Strauss Reading Karl Marx during the Cold War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAdi Armon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eGershom Scholem, \u003cem\u003eEinst und Jetzt\u003c\/em\u003e: Zionist Politics and Kabbalistic Historiography\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavid Biale\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eDeath or Birth? Scholem and Secularization\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eZohar Maor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eFragments from a Correspondence(Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem) – A Poem\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eZvi Jagendorf\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II. Political Positioning in Hard Times\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eIn Heidegger’s Shadow: Ernst Cassirer, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Question of the Political\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJeffrey Andrew Barash\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eWalter Rathenau’s Dilemma: Modernity and the Human Soul\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eShulamit Volkov\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003e“Nothing but a Disillusioned Love”?: Hans Kohn’s Break with the Zionist Movement\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAdi Gordon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eHistoricism and the Event\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMartin Jay\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III. Brothers and Strangers: The Issue of Identity\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eAsiatic Brothers, European Strangers: Eugen Hoeflich and Pan-Asian Zionism in Vienna\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHanan Harif\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12. \u003c\/strong\u003e“Brothers and Strangers”: The American Example\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003ePierre Birnbaum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13. \u003c\/strong\u003e“Mann Kann Verjuden”: Paradoxes of Exemplarity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVivian Liska\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV. In the Shadow of the Holocaust\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14. \u003c\/strong\u003eA “Usable Past” and the Crisis of European Jews: Popular Jewish Historiography in Germany, France, and Hungary in the 1930s\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGuy Miron\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15. \u003c\/strong\u003eThree Jewish Émigrés at Nuremberg: Jacob Robinson, Hersch Lauterpacht, and Raphael Lemkin\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael R. Marrus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Frankfurt School and the ‘Jewish Question,’ 1940-1970\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnson Rabinbach\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 17. \u003c\/strong\u003eHolocaust History and Survivor Testimony: Challenges, Limitations, and Opportunities\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eChristopher R. 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