Against the grain
Subtitle: Jewish intellectuals in hard times
By: edited by Ezra Mendelsohn, Stefani Hoffman, and Richard I. Cohen
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Berghahn
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781782380023; 9781782380030
Subjects: Jews; Intellectual life; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Influence; Intellectuals; History; Political culture; Political and social views; East European Jews; Ethnic relations
Description: "This volume analyzes the political roads taken by German Jewish thinkers; the impact of the Holocaust on the Central and East European Jewish intelligentsia; and the conundrum of modern Jewish identity"--Publisher's summary.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-294) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Strauss, Scholem, Arendt, Benjamin; title: Part II. Political positioning in hard times; title: Part III. Brothers and strangers: the issue of identity; title: Part IV. In the shadow of the Holocaust.