Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews / Cathy S. Gelbin and Sander L. Gilman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gelbin, Cathy S., author.

Gilman, Sander L., author.

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Series:

Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cosmopolitanism--Europe.

Cosmopolitanism.

Jews--Europe--Identity.

Jews.

Jews in literature.

German literature--Jewish authors.

German literature.

Europe--Ethnic relations.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion, as it traces the evolution of Jewish cosmopolitanism over the last two centuries. The book sets out from an exploration of the nature and cultural-political implications of the shifting perceptions of Jewish mobility and fluidity around 1800, when modern cosmopolitanist discourse arose. Through a series of case studies, the authors analyze the historical and discursive junctures that mark the central paradigm shifts in the Jewish self-image, from the Wandering Jew to the rootless parasite, the cosmopolitan, and the socialist internationalist. Chapters analyze the tensions and dualisms in the constructed relationship between cosmopolitanism and the Jews at particular historical junctures between 1800 and the present, and probe into the relationship between earlier anti-Semitic discourses on Jewish cosmopolitanism and Stalinist rhetoric.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

1. How Did We Get Here from There?

Introducing the Problem

The Cosmopolitanist Debates

The Jew in Contemporary Theories of Cosmopolitanism

Nomads, Gypsies, Jews

Jews and the Nation-State

2. Moving About: Cosmopolitanism from Jews in Coaches to Jews on Trains

The Enlightenment Imagines Cosmopolitan Jews

Writers in Coaches

Jews Writing Their Own Cosmopolitanism

3. "Everyone Is Welcome": The Contradictions of Cosmopolitanism in the Imperial Worlds of Austro-Hungarian and Wilhelmine Jewry

From Vienna to Berlin and Beyond

Vienna, Zionism, and Cosmopolitanism

Prague: On the Fringes of Empire

Berlin: Another Empire

4. Jewish Cosmopolitanism and the European Idea, 1918-1933

After the Deluge

Stefan Zweig: The Model European

Joseph Roth's Hotel Patriotism

Lion Feuchtwanger: The Empire Strikes Back

Cosmopolitanism Tottering on the Brink of Catastrophe

5. "The World Will Be Your Home": Cosmopolitanism under National Socialism and in Exile

The Revolution of 1933

Thomas Mann and Egypt

Joseph in Sigmund Freud's Egypt

Heidegger's Rootless Jew

Zweig's Erasmus in Exile: The Cosmopolitan par Excellence

Roth and Zweig: Idealizing the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Zweig's Brazil: The Farthest Exile

Lion Feuchtwanger's History in Exile, the Josephus Trilogy

6. Rootless Cosmopolitans: German Jewish Writers and the Stalinist Purges

The Left in World War II and Thereafter

Communism, National Socialism, and the Jews

Writing the Stalinist Purges: Alice Rühle-Gerstel, Arthur Koestler, and Manès Sperber

The Left and the Stalinist Purges after 1945: Rudolf Leonhard, Peter Weiss, and Stefan Heym

7. Russian Jews as the Newest Cosmopolitans

Rooted German Cosmopolitans?

In Germany, Gogol Is Not Sholem Aleichem.

In America, Nabokov Really Is Not Sholem Aleichem

8. Walls and Borders: Toward a Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780472122967

0472122967

OCLC:

999636742

Publisher Number:

10.3998/mpub.8174299

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access