1st Edition

Social Issues, Geopolitics, and Judaica

Edited By Werner J. Cahnman Copyright 2007
401 Pages
by Routledge

402 Pages
by Routledge

401 Pages
by Routledge

This volume brings together thirty-four essays and ar- ticles by Werner J. Cahnman representing four decades (1940-1980) of work by an extraordinary, multidisciplinary scholar. Cahnman's work encompasses the experiences of a German Jewish refugee, an economist turned sociologist, and a scholar of Judaism. Part 1 contains personal and autobiographical writings and includes analyses of the cultural... Read more
1: Personal and Autobiographical Writings; 1: My Relations to Jews and Judaism; 2: Jewish Intellectuals and the Central-Verein; 3: The Nazi Threat and the CentralVerein—A Recollection; 4: The Education of Rudolf Hess; 5: Stefan Zweig in Salzburg; 6: Werner Cahnman at Seventy: An Interview; 7: Robert E. Park at Fisk; 8: Germany: The Time Has Come for Friendship; 2: Sociological Essays; 9: Reflections on the Sociology of the Jews; 10: An American Dilemma; 11: The Stigma of Obesity; 12: The Forest Hills Experience; 13: “Ghetto” and “Sociology”; 14: The Concept of Social Policy ( Sozialpolitik ); 3: Geopolitical Ruminations: The Beginnings of the Global Approach; 15: Methods of Geopolitics; 16: Concepts of Geopolitics; 17: Foreign Area Study (ASTP) as an Educational Experiment in the Social Sciences; 18: Is a United Europe Possible?; 19: The Concept of Raum and the Theory of Regionalism; 20: France in Algeria—A Problem of Culture Contact; 21: Outline of a Theory of Area Studies; 22: Frontiers between East and West in Europe; 4: Jews and Judaism: A Historical View; 23: Reaction to Domination; 24: The Jews of Vienna; 25: Jewish Morale in Our Times; 26: Munich and the First Zionist Congress; 27: Two Maps of German-Jewish History; 28: A New Learning: Introduction to Franz Rosenzweig; 29: The Arabs and Zionist Policy; 30: Socio-Economic Causes of Anti-Semitism; 31: Adolf Fischhof and His Jewish Followers; 32: Theodor Herzl: A Column of Fire; 33: Some Facts of Intermarriage and Their Consequences for Action; 34: Comments on the American Jewish Scene

Biography

Werner J. Cahnman