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At the Edges of Liberalism
Junctions of European, German, and Jewish History, Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
ISBN/EAN: 9781137002280
Umbreit-Nr.: 2402967
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: x, 273 S.
Format in cm:
Einband:
kartoniertes Buch
Erschienen am 15.06.2012
Auflage: 1/2012
- Zusatztext
- The essays in this volume seek to confront some of the charged meeting points of European - especially German - and Jewish history. All, in one way or another, explore the entanglements, the intertwined moments of empathy and enmity, belonging and estrangement, creativity and destructiveness that occurred at these junctions.
- Kurztext
- MAJOR FIGURE: Aschheim is an acknowledged expert on Jewish/German history, a luminary within intellectual history circles, and something approaching a public intellectual in the UK and IsraelWIDE-RANGING: The book covers a broad set of issues including the rise of Nazism, the history of Jewish intellectuals, and the founding of Israel but does so with a tight, coherent frameworkENGAGINGLY WRITTEN: Aschheim writes in a relatively light and engaging but serious style, appropriate to TLS readers, e.g.CONTEMPORARY RELEVANCE: Aschheim writes from the perspective of an Israeli scholar watching as the Palestinian question threatens to unravel Israel's liberal heritage. The book is informed by this perspective and in its final section provides explicit historical context for the current moment
- Autorenportrait
- STEVEN E. ASCHHEIM is Professor Emeritus of History at Hebrew University, Israel. The author of numerous books on German and Jewish history over the last thirty years, his writing regularly appears in publications such as The Times Literary Supplement and Ha'aretz. In recent years he has held visiting professorships at such schools as Columbia, the University of Michigan, and Trinity College Dublin.