The modern German-Jewish experience through the rise of Nazism
in 1933 was characterized by an explosion of cultural and
intellectual creativity. Yet well after that history has ended, the
influence of Weimar German-Jewish intellectuals has become ever
greater. Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Theodor Adorno, Walter
Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Leo Strauss have become household
names and possess a continuing resonance. "Beyond the Border" seeks
to explain this phenomenon and analyze how the German-Jewish legacy
has continuingly permeated wider modes of Western thought and
sensibility, and why these emigres occupy an increasingly iconic
place in contemporary society.
Steven Aschheim traces the odyssey of a fascinating group of
German-speaking Zionists--among them Martin Buber and Hans
Kohn--who recognized the moral dilemmas of Jewish settlement in
pre-Israel Palestine and sought a binationalist solution to the
Arab-Israel conflict. He explores how German-Jewish emigre
historians like Fritz Stern and George Mosse created a new kind of
cultural history written against the background of their exile from
Nazi Germany and in implicit tension with postwar German social
historians. And finally, he examines the reasons behind the
remarkable contemporary canonization of these Weimar
intellectuals--from Arendt to Strauss--within Western academic and
cultural life.
"Beyond the Border" is about more than the physical act of
departure. It also points to the pioneering ways these emigres
questioned normative cognitive boundaries and have continued to
play a vital role in addressing the predicaments that engage and
perplex us today."
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