At the Edges of Liberalism: Junctions of European, German, and Jewish History

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Icons Beyond Their Borders: The German-Jewish Intellectual Legacy at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century....Pages 7-20
The Modern Jewish Experience and the Entangled Web of Orientalism....Pages 21-37
Bildung in Palestine: Zionism, Binationalism, and the Strains of German-Jewish Humanism....Pages 39-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Hannah Arendt: Jewishness at the Edges....Pages 59-65
The Metaphysical Psychologist: On the Life and Letters of Gershom Scholem....Pages 67-86
Comrade Klemperer: Communism, Liberalism, and Jewishness in the GDR: The Later Diaries, 1945–1959 ....Pages 87-101
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Locating Nazi Evil: The Contrasting Visions of Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Victor Klemperer....Pages 105-115
The Bonfires of Berlin: Historical and Contemporary Reflections on the Nazi Book Burnings....Pages 117-124
Imaging the Absolute: Mapping Western Conceptions of Evil....Pages 125-132
The Ambiguous Political Economy of Empathy....Pages 133-142
Front Matter....Pages 143-143
Reflections on Insiders and Outsiders....Pages 145-155
Toward a Phenomenology of the Jewish Intellectual: The German and French Cases Compared....Pages 157-170
Reflections on Theatricality, Identity, and the Modern Jewish Experience....Pages 171-184
Between Rights, Respectability, and Resistance: Reframing the German-Jewish Experience....Pages 185-194
Back Matter....Pages 197-273