Against the Grain

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<p> Highlighting the seminal role of German Jewish intellectuals and ideologues in forming and transforming the modern Jewish world, 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. Several of German Jewrys most outstanding figures such as Scholem, Strauss, and Kohn are discussed. Inspired by Steven E. Aschheims work, several contributors focus on the fraught relationship between German and East European Jews (the so-called<em>Ostjuden</em>) and between German Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors. More generally, this book examines how Central European Jewish thinkers reacted to the terrible crises of the twentieth centuryto war, genocide, and the existential threat to the very existence of the Jewish people. It is essential reading for those interested in the triumphs and tragedies of modern European Jewry.</p>

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<p><strong>Richard I. Cohen</strong>holds the Paulette and Claude Kelman Chair in French Jewry Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has recently edited<em>Visualizing and Exhibiting Jewish Space and History</em> (vol. 26 of<em>Studies in Contemporary Jewry</em>, 2012).</p>

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