Jews on the Move: Modern Cosmopolitanist Thought and its Others
Jewish cosmopolitanism is key to understanding both modern globalization, and the old and new nationalism. Jewish cultures existing in the Western world during the last two centuries have been and continue to be read as hyphenated phenomena within a specific national context, such as German-Jewish or American-Jewish culture. Yet to what extent do such nationalized constructs of Jewish culture and identity still dominate Jewish self-expressions, and the discourses about them, in the rapidly globalizing world of the twenty-first century? In a world in which Diaspora societies have begun to reshape themselves as part of a super- or non-national identity, what has happened to a cosmopolitan Jewish identity?
In a post-Zionist world, where one of the newest and most substantial Diaspora communities is that of Israelis, in the new globalized culture, is being Jewish suddenly something that can reach beyond the older models of Diasporic integration or nationalism? Which new paradigms of Jewish self-location, within the evolving and conflicting global discourses, about the nation, race, Genocides, anti-Semitism, colonialism and postcolonialism, gender and sexual identities does the globalization of Jewish cultures open up? To what extent might transnational notions of Jewishness, such as European-Jewish identity, create new discursive margins and centers? Is there a possibility that a virtual makom (Jewish space) might constitute itself? Recent studies on cosmopolitanism cite the Jewish experience as a key to the very notion of the movement of people for good or for ill as well as for the resurgence of modern nationalism. These theories reflect newer models of postcolonialism and transnationalism in regard to global Jewish cultures.
The present volume spans the widest reading of Jewish cosmopolitisms to study Jews on the move.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the European Review of History.
Cathy S. Gelbin is a Senior Lecturer in Film and German Studies at Manchester University, UK. She specializes in modern German-Jewish culture, including intellectual history, literature and film.
Sander L. Gilman is a Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University, Georgia, USA. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of well over ninety books.
Jews on the Move: Modern
Cosmopolitanist Thought
and its Others
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Cathy S. Gelbin and Sander L. Gilman
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Contents
Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in the European Review of History, volume 23, issue 56 (OctoberDecember 2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Cosmopolitanism and the critique of antisemitism: two faces of universality
Robert D. Fine
European Review of History, volume 23, issue 56 (OctoberDecember 2016), pp. 769783
Chapter 2
Aliens vs. predators: cosmopolitan Jews vs. Jewish nomads
Sander L. Gilman
European Review of History, volume 23, issue 56 (OctoberDecember 2016), pp. 784796
Chapter 3
Revolutions, wars and the Jewish and Christian contribution to redemptive cosmopolitanism in Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Wayne Cristaudo
European Review of History, volume 23, issue 56 (OctoberDecember 2016), pp. 797813
Chapter 4
Hotel patriots or permanent strangers? Joseph Roth and the Jews of inter-war Central Europe
Ilse Josepha Lazaroms
European Review of History, volume 23, issue 56 (OctoberDecember 2016), pp. 814827
Chapter 5
Marxism, cosmopolitanism and the Jews
Philip Spencer
European Review of History, volume 23, issue 56 (OctoberDecember 2016), pp. 828846
Chapter 6
New futures, new pasts: Horace M. Kallen and the contribution of Jewishness to the future
Jakob Egholm Feldt
European Review of History, volume 23, issue 56 (OctoberDecember 2016), pp. 847862
Chapter 7
Rootless cosmopolitans: German-Jewish writers confront the Stalinist and National Socialist atrocities
Cathy S. Gelbin
European Review of History, volume 23, issue 56 (OctoberDecember 2016), pp. 863879
Chapter 8
Inviting essential outsiders in: imagining a cosmopolitan nation
Claire Sutherland
European Review of History, volume 23, issue 56 (OctoberDecember 2016), pp. 880896
Chapter 9
Cosmopolitan from above: a Jewish experience in Hong Kong
Xun Zhou
European Review of History, volume 23, issue 56 (OctoberDecember 2016), pp. 897911
Chapter 10
The possibilities and pitfalls of a Jewish cosmopolitanism: reading Natan Sznaider through Russian-Jewish writer Olga Grjasnowas German-language novel Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt (All Russians Love Birch Trees)
Stuart Taberner
European Review of History, volume 23, issue 56 (OctoberDecember 2016), pp. 912930
Chapter 11
Cosmopolitan Europeans? Jewish public intellectuals in Germany and Austria and the idea of Europe
Anita Bunyan
European Review of History, volume 23, issue 56 (OctoberDecember 2016), pp. 931946
Chapter 12
Drifting towards Cosmopolis
Ruth Novaczek
European Review of History, volume 23, issue 56 (OctoberDecember 2016), pp. 947960
Chapter 13
Maximalism as a Cosmopolitan strategy in the art of Ruth Novaczek and Doug Fishbone
Rachel S. Garfield
