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New German Critique (2014) 41 (1 (121)): 33–54.
Published: 01 February 2014
... in a new role: not as the great innovator of Jewish life but as a part of a German Jewish tradition dating at least to Maimon's time. © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc. 2014 Reading Gershom Scholem in Context: Salomon Maimon’s and Gershom Scholem’s German Jewish Discourse on Jewish Mysticism...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 181–205.
Published: 01 February 2018
...Willem Styfhals The story of the renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem and his disloyal student Jacob Taubes was one of continuing intellectual quarrel and personal enmity. Their intellectual disagreements centered on Jewish messianism, but the significance of this issue for Taubes’s...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 61–82.
Published: 01 November 2017
... 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...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 179–210.
Published: 01 February 2023
... had established for himself as preeminent among the very few scholars in the study of Jewish mysticism. Three years later, in 1941, as Heschel was settling into his tenure at HUC, Scholem’s Stroock lectures formed the basis of his book Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism , a groundbreaking synthesis...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 91–107.
Published: 01 November 2012
... law. Precisely those aspects of Judaism that these Jewish scholars despised—mysticism, pietism, apocalypticism—they also ignored in their representations of Islam. The identification with Islam was part of a larger project of modern Jewish thinkers to “purify” Judaism of religious excess—pietism...
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (1 (133)): 23–47.
Published: 01 February 2018
... in exile and the other in inner emigration. Drawing on recent postsecular approaches to pair the thought of the Catholic conservative Haecker and the Jewish-Marxist Benjamin, the present article details the context of Haecker’s book and Benjamin’s review and traces their respective mystical theories...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 83–102.
Published: 01 February 2023
... Gershom . “ Education for Judaism .” In On the Possibility of Jewish Mysticism in Our Time and Other Essays , edited by Shapira Avraham , translated by Chipman Jonathan , 80 – 92 . Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society , 1997 . Scholem Gershom . Walter Benjamin: The Story...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (3 (111)): 1–26.
Published: 01 November 2010
... several chapters to the centrality of language in the Jewish tradition and Jewish mysticism in particular, and which Benjamin had also read.35 Indeed, David Biale examines Scholem’s early “view of the nature and efficacy of language to transmit divine revelation” as a response to a “theological...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 221–252.
Published: 01 August 2019
.... 50. Uexküll, Theoretical Biology , 126 . I have modified the translation to bring it into conformity with Theoretische Biologie . 51. Ay and Löhr, “ Umwelt of an Embodied Agent.” 52. Uexküll, Theoretical Biology , 126 . 53. Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism...
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (1 (118)): 29–41.
Published: 01 February 2013
... Rosenzweig and His Book, The Star of Redemption,” in On the Possibility of Jewish Mysticism in Our Time and Other Essays, ed. Avraham Schapira (Philadel- phia: Jewish Publication Society, 1997), 203. 16. Quoted in Wiggershaus, Frankfurt School, 326. ...
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (2 (140)): 191–216.
Published: 01 August 2020
... a reading that highlights the relation to Jewish mysticism. 6. McCole, Walter Benjamin and the Antinomies of Tradition ; Simay, “Reconstruire la tradition,” 87 ; Düttmann, “Tradition and Destruction,” 528 ; Khatib, “Where the Past Was, There History Shall Be.” For a fascinating application...
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (2 (101)): 45–94.
Published: 01 August 2007
... was actually indebted to Jewish mysticism, he claimed, because Jakob Böhme had been influenced by the kabbalah, and in turn his Swabian pietism had influenced the Tübingen seminarians G. W. F. Hegel, Friedrich Schelling, and Friedrich Hölderlin. The content of this mysticism was the human fulfillment...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (3 (105)): 143–164.
Published: 01 November 2008
... but in the end held at bay; or as a specter to be banished 29. Gershom Scholem, On the Possibility of Jewish Mysticism in Our Time, and Other Essays, ed. Avraham Shapira, trans. Jonathan Chipman (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1997), 85. 164 Judaism and Heresy by the bright light...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 163–200.
Published: 01 August 2017
..., 32–33. 60. See Berghahn and Hermand, Goethe in German-Jewish Culture. 174  Protestant Islam in Weimar Germany mysticism), and Zionism (Jewish nationalism) instead,61 ironically, it is Marcus (minus the socialism) who best illustrates Mosse’s German Jew who remains loyal to Bildung...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 199–224.
Published: 01 February 2012
..., argued in a radio address from New York that the Jewish traits of “nervousness” and “sensitivity,” accumulated through centuries of ghetto life, were worth preserving against assimilation.76 American attempts at a scientific conceptualization of Freud’s pseudo­ mystical idea of Jewish...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 181–215.
Published: 01 February 2011
... that discourse: the Left’s countermemory purportedly exposed the nefarious and politically motivated obfuscations of a “bourgeois” Jewish memory of “mysticism” and misplaced reverence. Novick undertook to expose precisely the hidden politics he saw under- lying Leyvik’s disrespect for the Jewish...
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 153–179.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Esra Akcan This essay reopens the countermonumentality debate in memorial design through a rereading of the Berlin Jewish Museum, discussing not only its memorial function but also the architect Daniel Libeskind's early sketches and unfolding statements throughout the construction and thereafter...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 81–89.
Published: 01 November 2012
... against literature and mysticism against clarity.”14 Adorno had given Mann advice about modern music as the novelist was writ- ing Doctor Faustus, a work infused with the specific events of World War II. It 13. On the assertions of these Nazi leaders, see Herf, Jewish Enemy. Hannah Arendt...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 41–67.
Published: 01 November 2015
.... . . . The idea was embod- ied and fulfilled in the renewal of Jewish Mamlachtiut in Eretz-Israel.”28 Mamlachtiut relied, as Ohana argues, on the messianic image of return, but, despite the quasi-mystical tone, it operated in a procedural way and belonged to a clear institutional semantics. The benefit...
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New German Critique (2008) 35 (1 (103)): 83–95.
Published: 01 February 2008
... journalist and writer, author of the notorious “document” that pretends to describe the secret plan of a Jewish conspiracy to achieve world domination.1 Golovinskii had, according to Lepekhin, composed the Protocols at the turn of the twentieth century on the orders of Piotr Rachkovskii, head...