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Title Catastrophe and Utopia : Jewish intellectuals in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s / edited by Ferenc Laczo and Joachim von Puttkamer.

Publication Info. Berlin [Germany] ; Boston [Massachusetts] : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018.
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Description 1 online resource (355 pages).
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Series Europas Osten im 20. Jahrhundert ; Band 7
Europas Osten im 20. Jahrhundert ; Bd. 7.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary Catastrophe and Utopia studies the biographical trajectories, intellectual agendas, and major accomplishments of select Jewish intellectuals during the age of Nazism, and the partly simultaneous, partly subsequent period of incipient Stalinization. By focusing on the relatively underexplored region of Central and Eastern Europe - which was the primary centre of Jewish life prior to the Holocaust, served as the main setting of the Nazi genocide, but also had notable communities of survivors - the volume offers significant contributions to a European Jewish intellectual history of the twentieth century. Approaching specific historical experiences in their diverse local contexts, the twelve case studies explore how Jewish intellectuals responded to the unprecedented catastrophe, how they renegotiated their utopian commitments and how the complex relationship between the two evolved over time. They analyze proximate Jewish reactions to the most abysmal discontinuity represented by the Judeocide while also revealing more subtle lines of continuity in Jewish thinking.-- Provided by Publisher.
Contents Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of contents -- Introduction / Laczó, Ferenc -- Part I: The Rupture of 1933 and New Expressions of Jewishness in the Age of Nazi Germany -- Utopia as Everyday Practice / Koeltzsch, Ines -- 'What Will Become of the German Jews?' / Vulesica, Marija -- 'Jewishness' in the Diary of Milán Füst / Schein, Gábor -- Part II: Modernity and the Search for Identity -- New Type of Internationalist / Gantner, Eszter -- 'Europe' -- It's such a strange word for me! / Quinkenstein, Małgorzata -- Part III: Unprecedented Catastrophe and Lines of Discursive Continuity -- A Liberal Utopia Againt All Odds / Royer, Clara -- From European Fascism to the Fate of the Jews / Laczó, Ferenc -- Across the Rupture / Lazaroms, Ilse Josepha -- Part IV: From Utopias to Post-war Trajectories -- From the Jewish Renaissance to Socialist Realism / Scheibner, Tamás -- Avatars of being a Jewish Professor at the University of Bucharest in the First Half of the Twentieth Century / Waldman, Felicia -- On the Ice Floe: Rachel Auerbach -- The Life of a Yiddishist Intellectual in Early Twentieth Century Poland / Szymaniak, Karolina -- List of Contributors.
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Subject Jews -- Germany -- History -- 1933-1945.
Jews.
Germany.
History.
Chronological Term 1933-1945
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Laczó, Ferenc, editor.
Puttkamer, Joachim von, editor.
Other Form: Print version: 9783110555431 3110555433 (OCoLC)1013875053
Print version: Catastrophe and Utopia. München De Gruyter Oldenbourg [2017] 9783110559347 (OCoLC)1013463191
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