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Between Redemption & Perdition - Modern Antisemitism and Jewish Identity (Hardcover)
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Between Redemption & Perdition - Modern Antisemitism and Jewish Identity (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Jewish History and Identity
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Originally published in 1990, this book focuses on the challenge to
Jewish identity posed by the conflicting forces of enlightenment,
emancipation, modern political antisemitism, and secular ideologies
like Zionism, nationalism, and socialism. At the heart of his
discussion stands the intense, tortured, and ultimately tragic
encounter of Jews with Germans and Austrians. He also deals at
length with the new problems of Jewish cultural and political
identity posed by the existence of the state of Israel and its
embattled position among the nations. In the course of the analysis
the book looks at the tragedy of assimilation in central Europe,
with the optimistic dream of Enlightenment and Bildung coming to a
climax in the nightmare of racial antisemitism and the Holocaust.
He explores the ambivalent relationship of the Jews with the
European Left, showing how many Jewish intellectuals found a new
political home in radical and socialist movements, though these
movements often retained negative stereotypes of Jews and Judaism
and exhibited a fierce opposition to the maintenance of any
separate Jewish identity. The role of Zionism is discussed and the
more recent challenges to its legitimacy examined.
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