Central European Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture : Studies in Memory of Lilian Furst (1931-2009) / edited by Julie Mell, Malachi Hacohen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hacohen, Malachi, editor.

Mell, Julie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Central European Jewish ÉmigrÃs and the Shaping of Postwar Culture

Central European Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture

Place of Publication:

Basel : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2014.

Summary:

Annotation The European Jewish EmigrEs from Nazi Germany and Europe have emerged in the last two decades as a major interdisciplinary research field. They made important theoretical contributions to twentieth-century philosophy and scholarship and helped shape postwar national and international cultures, in Europe and the U.S. This special issue explores the nexus of Jewish religion, ethnicity, and culture in the EmigrEs' life and scholarship. Mostly secular, often paying little attention to their own Jewishness, the EmigrEs display in full the complex relationship between Judaism and Jewish identity. They provide scholars with opportunities for deciphering the Jewish dimension in the making of postwar cultures and for rethinking the meaning of "Jewish" for a group denying the significance of religion and ethnicity - their own first and foremost. The issue grew out of an April 2011 conference at the National Humanities Center in memory of Lilian Furst (1931-2009), former UNC professor of comparative literature, an Austrian EmigrE to Britain and the U.S. whose work exemplified the role of religion, ethnicity and culture in the making of contemporary scholarship.

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