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Against the grain : Jewish intellectuals in hard times / edited by Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman, and Richard I. Cohen.

Title
Against the grain : Jewish intellectuals in hard times / edited by Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman, and Richard I. Cohen.
Publication
New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Mendelsohn, Ezra
  • Hoffman, Stefani
  • Cohen, Richard I.
Description
305 pages
Summary
"This volume analyzes the political roads taken by German Jewish thinkers; the impact of the Holocaust on the Central and East European Jewish intelligentsia; and the conundrum of modern Jewish identity"--Publisher's summary.
Subject
  • Aschheim, Steven E., 1942- > Political and social views
  • Strauss, Leo > Political and social views
  • Jews > Germany > Intellectual life
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) > Influence
  • Intellectuals > History > Germany > 20th century
  • Political culture > Germany > History > 20th century
  • Jews, East European > Germany
  • Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century
  • Germany > Ethnic relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part I. Strauss, Scholem, Arendt, Benjamin -- Part II. Political positioning in hard times -- Part III. Brothers and strangers: the issue of identity -- Part IV. In the shadow of the Holocaust.
ISBN
  • 9781782380023 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9781782380030 (institutional)
LCCN
^^2013005581
OCLC
  • 869233949
  • SCSB-11782188
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library