Jews on the Move: Modern Cosmopolitanist Thought and Its Others

ISBN-13: 9780367529758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 216 str.

Cathy Gelbin; Sander L. Gilman

Opis

Are Jews a global people or are they a national people defined by a specific national state? How has the role of Jews across today’s global culture been shaped by history and geography? This collection was originally published as a special issue of European Review of History.

Spis treści

Part I. Jews in modern cosmopolitanist thought  1. Cosmopolitanism and the critique of antisemitism: two faces of universality  2. Aliens vs. predators: cosmopolitan Jews vs. Jewish nomads  Part II. Jews and cosmopolitanism in interwar Germany  3. Revolutions, wars and the Jewish and Christian contribution to redemptive cosmopolitanism in Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy  4. Hotel patriots or permanent strangers? Joseph Roth and the Jews of inter-war Central Europe  Part III. Jews, cosmopolitanism and political thought  5. Marxism, cosmopolitanism and ‘the’ Jews  6. New futures, new pasts: Horace M. Kallen and the contribution of Jewishness to the future  7. Rootless cosmopolitans: German-Jewish writers confront the Stalinist and National Socialist atrocities  Part IV. Jews and the new cosmopolitanism  8. Inviting essential outsiders in: imagining a cosmopolitan nation  9. ‘Cosmopolitan from above’: a Jewish experience in Hong Kong  10. The possibilities and pitfalls of a Jewish cosmopolitanism: reading Natan Sznaider through Russian-Jewish writer Olga Grjasnowa’s German-language novel Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt (All Russians Love Birch Trees)  11. Cosmopolitan Europeans? Jewish public intellectuals in Germany and Austria and the idea of ‘Europe’  12. Drifting towards Cosmopolis  13. Maximalism as a Cosmopolitan strategy in the art of Ruth Novaczek and Doug Fishbone

O autorze

Cathy S. Gelbin is a Senior Lecturer in Film and German Studies at Manchester University, UK. She specializes in modern German-Jewish culture, including intellectual history, literature and film.

Sander L. Gilman is a Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University, Georgia, USA. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of well over ninety books.