Binding: Paperback
Description: 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. These encounters typically unfolded within an uneasy continuum of conflict and co - operation conformity and resistance refashioning or maintaining personal and collective dimensions of identity. Clearly they never allowed for the luxury of indifference. Yet it would be wrong to present meetings of this kind as exclusively confrontational as stark either - or choices. Life at the junctions may be vulnerable and insecure but it can also yield fresh angles of perception and new opportunities. If these boundary situations generated a modicum of friction confusion and anxiety and at times even murderousness they also produced new alliances and friendships creative projects and novel fusions and formations of identity. In exploring these dramatic moments in history Steven Aschheim provides valuable new insights into the history of Europe Israel and global Judaism.
Title: At The Edges Of Liberalism Junctions Of European German And Jewish History
Author(s): Aschheim S.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Barcode: 9781137002280
Pages: 273 Pages, X, 273 P.
Publication Date: 6/15/2012
Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
Category: Judaism