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Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews / Cathy S. Gelbin and Sander L. Gilman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gelbin, Cathy S.
- 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.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- Europe--Ethnic relations.
- Europe.
- Ethnic relations.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Cosmopolitanisms and the Jews adds significantly to contemporary scholarship on cosmopolitanism by making the experience of Jews central to the discussion. It offers the first conceptual history of the image and participation of Jews in modern German-speaking cosmopolitanist thought, exploring the nature and cultural-political implications of the shifting perceptions of Jewish mobility and fluidity from 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 over two centuries, and probe the relationship between earlier anti-Semitic discourses on Jewish cosmopolitanism and Stalinist rhetoric. The book will be of interest to scholars in German Studies, Jewish studies, literature, history and the history of ideas, as well as anyone interested in the history and culture of German-speaking Jews. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Preface vii
- 1 How Did We Get Here from There? 1
- Introducing the Problem 1
- The Cosmopolitanist Debates 9
- The Jew in Contemporary Theories of Cosmopolitanism 12
- Nomads, Gypsies, Jews 17
- Jews and the Nation-State 28
- 2 Moving About; Cosmopolitanism from Jews in Coaches to Jews on Trains 31
- The Enlightenment Imagines Cosmopolitan Jews 31
- Writers in Coaches 42
- Jews Writing Their Own Cosmopolitanism 61
- 3 "Everyone Is Welcome": The Contradictions of Cosmopolitanism in the Imperial Worlds of Austro-Hungarian and Wilhelmine Jewry 69
- From Vienna to Berlin and Beyond 69
- Vienna, Zionism, and Cosmopolitanism 73
- Prague: On the Fringes of Empire 91
- Berlin: Another Empire 100
- 4 Jewish Cosmopolitanism and the European Idea, 1918-1933 113
- After the Deluge 113
- Stefan Zweig: The Model European 120
- Joseph Roth's Hotel Patriotism 127
- Lion Feuchtwanger: The Empire Strikes Back 137
- Cosmopolitanism Tottering on the Brink of Catastrophe 142
- 5 "The World Will Be Your Home": Cosmopolitanism under National Socialism and in Exile 144
- The Revolution of 1933 144
- Thomas Mann and Egypt 145
- Joseph in Sigmund Freud's Egypt 159
- Heidegger's Rootless Jew 162
- Zweig's Erasmus in Exile: The Cosmopolitan par Excellence 165
- Roth and Zweig: Idealizing the Austro-Hungarian Empire 170
- Zweig's Brazil: The Farthest Exile 174
- Lion Feuchtwanger's History in Exile, the Josephus Trilogy 182
- 6 Rootless Cosmopolitans: German Jewish Writers and the Stalinist Purges 187
- The Left in World War II and Thereafter 187
- Communism, National Socialism, and the Jews 188
- Writing the Stalinist Purges / Alice Rühle-Gerstel Rühle-Gerstel, Alice, Arthur Koestler Koestler, Arthur, Manès Sperber Sperber, Manès 197
- The Left and the Stalinist Purges after 1945 / Rudolf Leonhard Leonhard, Rudolf, Peter Weiss Weiss, Peter, Stefan Heym Heym, Stefan 213
- 7 Russian Jews as the Newest Cosmopolitans 223
- Rooted German Cosmopolitans? 223
- In Germany, Gogol Is Not Sholem Aleichem 226
- In America, Nabokov Really Is Not Sholem Aleichem 243
- 8 Walls and Borders: Toward a Conclusion 255.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472122967
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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