...Katja Garloff This essay calls for a theoretical discussion of the aesthetics and politics of comparison in contemporary German Jewish literature and beyond. It describes the tendency of recent German Jewish writers and thinkers to compare and connect the experiences of Jews to those of other...

...Eneken Laanes A new perspective on Katja Petrowskaja’s Maybe Esther (2014) goes beyond earlier interpretations of the novel, which tend to privilege analytic frameworks of minor literatures, German Jewish literature, or Holocaust postmemory. This article reads the novel as cultivating...

... that the phenomenology of the Volkskörper already contains the phenomenology of the Jewish body. Thus phenomenology has methodological promise for the historical analysis of the phenomenon of Nazism. New German Critique, Inc. 2009 The Phenomenology of the German People’s Body (Volkskörper) and the Extermination...

... passage Socher states: Maimon stands in a both chronological and substantive sense between Mendelssohn and Heine, at the beginning of the Jewish entry into German literature. Unlike Mendelssohn and like Heine, he thematized his cultural otherness, flaunted it, and made...

... as an “antechamber to the German paradise.” That was how the nineteenth-century German Jewish writer Karl Emil Franzos saw Czernowitz, where he moved from the small Galician town of Czortkow to attend a German-language gymnasium. 3 Exploring places like Bukovina, margins or peripheries of German history...

... in!” not by Germans or SS but by “invisible voices.” 14 In Tzili: The Story of a Life (1983), where Appelfeld narrates the escape of a young Jewish girl in the eastern European forests, we are told that the “soldiers invaded the town and destroyed it,” and elsewhere Tzili asks, “Do they kill everyone?” 15...

... to his reflections on American writers and scholars in the final third of his career. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Gershom Scholem Kabbalah Sabbatai Sevi Jewish mysticism America References Abrams Daniel . 2000 . “Defining Modern Academic Scholarship: Gershom...

...” history was essential if one were to grasp National Socialism. 2 This approach also characterized the writings of other German Jewish exiles such as Fritz Stern and Peter Gay, whom Rabinbach cites as influences in his interview. Yet various aspects distinguish Rabinbach’s approach from those of his...

..., mysticism, exoticism, eroticism—and identifying Judaism with Islam became a tool to de-Orientalize Judaism. © 2012 by New German Critique, Inc. 2012 German Jewish Scholarship on Islam as a Tool for De-Orientalizing Judaism Susannah Heschel During...

... on the “battle against Jewishness in legal science,” which Schmitt organizes in 1936. 100 Here Schmitt offers concrete policy proposals for the creation of “a German legal scientific literature” that would no longer be a scientific literature “contaminated by the Jews [ von Juden infiziertes ].” 101 Once...

...Sebastian Truskolaski In March 1916 the German Jewish writer, philosopher, and anarchist-activist Gustav Landauer gave a lecture on Friedrich Hölderlin’s hymn “The Rhine” (1802) at a women’s club in central Berlin. The lecture aims to derive from Hölderlin a concept of community designed to disavow...

... away from Jenö onto Ham’s wrath, which would merit further consideration. I am grateful to the editors for suggesting this additional layer of interpretation. 10. Garloff, “Cosmopolitan Leftovers and Experimental Prose,” 4 . 11. Robertson, “Jewish Question” in German Literature , 6–7...

...Marc David Baer The article explores the Islam envisioned in the extensive writings of one of the most prominent German converts to Islam in Weimar Germany, the Jewish poet, philosopher, and political activist Hugo Marcus (1880–1966). Marcus's understanding of Islam is a surprisingly Eurocentric...

...Steven E. Aschheim Victor Klemperer, Hannah Arendt, and Gerhard Scholem were three formidable German Jewish intellectuals with radically different conceptions of German identity, liberalism, Marxism, Jewishness, and Zionism and who confronted the great crises of their times with greatly divergent...

... revisionist tendencies (she points specifi- cally to a scene in Joseph Vilsmaier’s film Die Gustloff that draws a visual analogy between German civilian refugees and Jewish Holocaust victims). Yet she insists that such criticism will be of little value unless it takes into account and situates...

... it within its historical context. For this purpose, it is beneficial to use a theoretical concept that addresses the history of the rela- tionship between Israelis and Germans. Dan Diner’s understanding of the history of the German-Jewish relation- ship offers a helpful conceptual framework because...

...Ofer Ashkenazi Both during the Weimar years and in the early decades of the Cold War, in the wake of national catastrophes, Heimat imagery had played a vital role in the German identity discourse. This article analyzes how German Jewish filmmakers appropriated conventional Heimat imagery...

.... Disillusioned by the persistence of antisemitism in the liberal age, German-speaking Jews were the first to assert an ethnic pride based on common traits they insisted remained embedded in their minds despite outward acculturation. While the emergent discourse of psychological Jewishness helped create...

... 2012 by New German Critique, Inc. 81 82  Dialectic of Enlightenment Reconsidered out the core themes of an at times opaque text and made the reasonable claim that the authors’ focus on the Jewish proscription on drawing the image...

... in the New Germany (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006); Leslie Morris and Jack Zipes, eds., Unlikely History: The Changing German-Jewish Symbiosis, 1945–2000 (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000). 4. Jan Ross, “Der Hegel der Bundesrepublik,” Die Zeit, October 11, 2001; cf. Mary Nolan...