Scholem, Arendt, Klemperer
Intimate Chronicles in Turbulent Times
Steven E. Aschheim
The way three prominent German-Jewish intellectuals confronted
Nazism, as revealed by their intimate writings.
Through an examination of the remarkable diaries and letters of
three extraordinary and distinctive German-Jewish thinkers Gershom
Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Victor Klemperer Steven E. Aschheim
illuminates what these intimate writings reveal about their
evolving identities and world views as they wrestled with the
meaning of being both German and Jewish in Hitler s Third Reich. In
recounting how their personal and private selves responded to the
public experiences these writers faced, their letters and diaries
provide a striking composite portrait. Scholem, a scholar of Jewish
mysticism and the spiritual traditions of Judaism; Arendt, a
political and social philosopher; and Klemperer, a professor of
literature and philology, were all highly articulate German-Jewish
intellectuals, shrewd observers, and acute analysts of the
pathologies and special contours of their times. From their
intimate writings Aschheim constructs a revealing "history from
within" that sheds new light on the complexity and drama of the
20th-century European and Jewish experience.
Steven E. Aschheim holds the Vigevani Chair of European Studies
and teaches in the Department of History at the Hebrew University,
Jerusalem. He is author of Brothers and Strangers: The East
European Jew in German and German-Jewish Consciousness, 1800 1923;
The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890 1990; and Culture and
Catastrophe: German and Jewish Confrontations with National
Socialism and Other Crises.
Published in association with Hebrew Union College Jewish
Institute of Religion, Cincinnati
May 2001
120 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, index
cloth 0-253-33891-3 $19.95 s / 15.50 "
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