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Jews on the Move: Modern Cosmopolitanist Thought and its Others book cover

1st Edition

Jews on the Move: Modern Cosmopolitanist Thought and its Others

Edited By Cathy Gelbin, Sander L Gilman Copyright 2018
226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge

226 Pages
by Routledge
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Jewish cosmopolitanism is key to understanding both modern globalization, and the old and new nationalism. Jewish cultures existing in the Western world during the last two centuries have been and continue to be read as hyphenated phenomena within a specific national context, such as German-Jewish or American-Jewish culture. Yet to what extent do such nationalized constructs of Jewish culture and... Read more

Part I. Jews in modern cosmopolitanist thought

1. Cosmopolitanism and the critique of antisemitism: two faces of universality Robert D. Fine

2. Aliens vs. predators: cosmopolitan Jews vs. Jewish nomads Sander L. Gilman

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 Wayne Cristaudo

4. Hotel patriots or permanent strangers? Joseph Roth and the Jews of inter-war Central Europe Ilse Josepha Lazaroms

Part III. Jews, cosmopolitanism and political thought

5. Marxism, cosmopolitanism and ‘the’ Jews Philip Spencer

6. New futures, new pasts: Horace M. Kallen and the contribution of Jewishness to the future Jakob Egholm Feldt

7. Rootless cosmopolitans: German-Jewish writers confront the Stalinist and National Socialist atrocities Cathy S. Gelbin

Part IV. Jews and the new cosmopolitanism

8. Inviting essential outsiders in: imagining a cosmopolitan nation Claire Sutherland

9. ‘Cosmopolitan from above’: a Jewish experience in Hong Kong Xun Zhou

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) Stuart Taberner

11. Cosmopolitan Europeans? Jewish public intellectuals in Germany and Austria and the idea of ‘Europe’ Anita Bunyan

12. Drifting towards Cosmopolis Ruth Novaczek

13. Maximalism as a Cosmopolitan strategy in the art of Ruth Novaczek and Doug Fishbone Rachel S. Garfield

Biography

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.

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