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Jews Among the Nations (Paperback)
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Jews Among the Nations (Paperback)
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This is an augmented edition of a superb volume by one of the
foremost analysts of European institutions and ideas. Here the late
Erich Kahler turns his attention to the special character of the
Jewish people, formed uniquely through the interaction of internal
and external circumstances in which past and present merge.The
chapters in this book deal with persistent problems of Jewish
identity. Kahler claims these can be fully understood only by
awareness of the close interconnection between the singular ethnic
nature and the unique social structure of the Jewish people. He
discusses the Jews in Europe, specifically the historical
implications of a strict tribal ritual that yet permitted the
widest spiritual scope.The second half of the book concerns
anti-Semitism, in relation to Jews and Germans. How did the German
people, seemingly so congenial to the Jews, develop a murderous
revulsion against them, ending a long and fruitful symbiosis?
Kahler sees this as a parallel to the parricidal rejection of the
Jews by the Christian church. His argument is deepened in an added
chapter, new to this volume, on the major forms and features of
anti-Judaism, 'in which the earlier theme of the universal and the
specific are seen as central not only to the inner history of
Judaism but also to the specific interaction of Jews and Gentiles
throughout social history.
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