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Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and the Jews of East Central Europe (Paperback)
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Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism and the Jews of East Central Europe (Paperback)
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Since ancient times, Jews have had a long and tangled relationship
to cosmopolitanism. Torn between a longstanding commitment to other
Jews and the pressure to integrate into various host societies,
many Jews have sought a third, seemingly neutral option, that of
becoming citizens of the world: cosmopolitans. Few regions
witnessed such intense debates on these questions as the lands of
East Central Europe as they entered the modern era. From Berlin to
Moscow and from Vilna to Bucharest, the Jews of East Central Europe
were repeatedly torn between people, nation and the world. While
many Jews and individuals of Jewish descent embraced cosmopolitan
ideologies and movements across the span of the nineteenth century,
such appeals to transcend the nation became increasingly suspect
with the rise of integral nationalism. In Germany, Poland, Russia
and other lands, Jews and other supporters of cosmopolitan
movements were marginalized during the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Although such sentiments reached their peak
during the Second World War, anti-cosmopolitan propaganda continued
throughout the Cold War when it often became an integral part of
anti-Jewish campaigns in the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland
and Romania. Even after the end of the Cold War, the connection
between Jews and cosmopolitanism continues to befuddle ideologues,
cultural leaders and politicians in Europe, North America and
Israel. The twelve chapters amassed in this volume address these
and other questions including: What lies at the roots of the
longstanding connection between Jews and cosmopolitanism? How has
this relationship changed over time? What can different cultural,
economic and political developments teach us about the ongoing
attraction and tension between Jews and cosmopolitanism? And, what
can these test cases tell us about the future of Jews and
cosmopolitanism in the twenty-first century? This book was
originally published as a special issue of the European Review of
History.
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