At the edges of liberalism : junctions of European, German and Jewish history

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Icons Beyond Their Borders: The German-Jewish Intellectual Legacy at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 3 The Modern Jewish Experience and the Entangled Web of Orientalism

Chapter 4 Bildung in Palestine: Zionism, Binationalism, and the Strains of German-Jewish Humanism

Chapter 5 Hannah Arendt: Jewishness at the Edges

Chapter 6 The Metaphysical Psychologist: On the Life and Letters of Gershom Scholem

Chapter 7 Comrade Klemperer: Communism, Liberalism, and Jewishness in the GDR: The Later Diaries, 1945–1959

Chapter 8 Locating Nazi Evil: The Contrasting Visions of Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Victor Klemperer

Chapter 9 The Bonfires of Berlin: Historical and Contemporary Reflections on the Nazi Book Burnings

Chapter 10 Imaging the Absolute: Mapping Western Conceptions of Evil

Chapter 11 The Ambiguous Political Economy of Empathy

Chapter 12 Reflections on Insiders and Outsiders

Chapter 13 Toward a Phenomenology of the Jewish Intellectual: The German and French Cases Compared

Chapter 14 Reflections on Theatricality, Identity, and the Modern Jewish Experience

Chapter 15 Between Rights, Respectability, and Resistance: Reframing the German-Jewish Experience