Table of Contents
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Book Overview
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Chapter 1
Introduction
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Chapter 2
Icons Beyond Their Borders: The German-Jewish Intellectual Legacy at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
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Chapter 3
The Modern Jewish Experience and the Entangled Web of Orientalism
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Chapter 4
Bildung in Palestine: Zionism, Binationalism, and the Strains of German-Jewish Humanism
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Chapter 5
Hannah Arendt: Jewishness at the Edges
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Chapter 6
The Metaphysical Psychologist: On the Life and Letters of Gershom Scholem
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Chapter 7
Comrade Klemperer: Communism, Liberalism, and Jewishness in the GDR: The Later Diaries, 1945–1959
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Chapter 8
Locating Nazi Evil: The Contrasting Visions of Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Victor Klemperer
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Chapter 9
The Bonfires of Berlin: Historical and Contemporary Reflections on the Nazi Book Burnings
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Chapter 10
Imaging the Absolute: Mapping Western Conceptions of Evil
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Chapter 11
The Ambiguous Political Economy of Empathy
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Chapter 12
Reflections on Insiders and Outsiders
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Chapter 13
Toward a Phenomenology of the Jewish Intellectual: The German and French Cases Compared
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Chapter 14
Reflections on Theatricality, Identity, and the Modern Jewish Experience
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Chapter 15
Between Rights, Respectability, and Resistance: Reframing the German-Jewish Experience
Attention for Chapter 7:
Comrade Klemperer: Communism, Liberalism, and Jewishness in the GDR: The Later Diaries, 1945–1959