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... recovery. © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc. 2014 Between Israel and Germany: Therapeutic Return to the Place of Trauma in Contemporary Israeli Cinema Ido Ramati The notion of “return” to Germany, found in artistic media and literature...

...Felicitas von Lovenberg In a conversation with Felicitas von Lovenberg of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published on April 13, 2012, Fritz Stern gives his reaction to Günter Grass's controversial poem on Israel, “What Must Be Said,” first published in April 2012 in the Süddeutsche Zeitung...

...Nitzan Lebovic This article focuses on the legal discourse of the first decade and a half of the Israeli state, from 1947 to 1961, through a close reading of texts written by the first generation of legal theorists in Israel. I show that conditions formed during that period still run our present...

... thinkers of robbing the Jews of the ideological ammunition needed to confront anti-Semitism and defend the creation of the state of Israel. Both, he claimed, were moral rigorists who fetishized truth telling despite its practical consequences. Although this charge may well be dubious, especially...

... are outlined by drawing on previously unknown archival material, including correspondence between Zemach and Vittorio Klostermann (Heidegger’s German publisher), as well as between Zemach and Heidegger himself. With a look at Heidegger’s reception in post-Holocaust Israel as reflected in the debates over his...

... shift in modes of perpetrator characterization in terms of its poetics and its place in Israel’s literary history. Copyright © 2019 by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 love David Grossman Ka-Tzetnik A. B. Yehoshua Mr. Mani The scholarship on literary responses to the Holocaust has...

... to play an outsize role in German leftist discourse. Assaf Moghadam and Michel Wyss’s 2019 article “Of Anti-Zionists and Antideutsche : The Postwar German Left and Its Relationship with Israel,” traces the shifts in the German Left’s position on Israel, concluding that the self-identity of the German...

..., at the age of twenty, Scholem was expelled from his family home for his Zionist activities. He found a room in a boardinghouse, Pension Struck, that hosted the intelligentsia of Eastern European Jewry, where his roommates included the future president of Israel, Zalman Rubashoff (later Shazar...

... that Weber lists as the tribulations over which the charismatic leader is expected to triumph (SEO, 358–59)—plagued Israel during Ahab’s reign (1 Kings 17:7, 18:2–5, 18:45). And Ahab knows what will become of his charismatic rule under such inauspicious circumstances, and so travels with Obadiah...

..., Améry suggested that counterviolence might have collective value. Améry identified the state of Israel as one site for such a collective sense of incorporation into humanity. In his staunch support for the state of Israel, Améry was in line with other Jewish thinkers of his era, such as Elie Wiesel...

... somehow the poor Jewboy Lev Bronstein’ [and] when [Zinoview] is taken away to be executed [and] invokes the Jewish prayer of ‘Sh’ma Israel’” to suggest that Soviet antisemitism played a role in this censorship. 46 The GDR went so far as to issue a temporary Reiseverbot , as if Weiss represented a risk...

... work? How did a private exchange become a central part of a vigorous public debate? Were both parties equally invested in the publication of their exchange? And more broadly, what happened when private letters between two outspoken intellectuals—one an established university professor in Israel...

... Realism” In 1942 Buber hid references to Schmitt’s Political Theology in his analysis of Isaiah. He turned to the book of Isaiah to understand the destruction of the people of Israel and concluded that the prophet’s idea of sacredness was “the movement of God into the world, and into man.” What...

... attacks on German theaters, the article describes the framing as alternating and conflicting and emphasizes the relationship of history, media, and memory. After the Israeli raid on Entebbe, biblical and messianic references dominated the immediate perception of the rescue operation, both in Israel...

... that the United States and the USSR engaged in as Germany became a front line in the great postwar geopolitical contest, and enmeshed also in the related, fraught question of negotiations between Konrad Adenauer’s West Germany and David Ben-Gurion’s Israel around the issue of restitution payments...

.... More decisive for delaying the Sobibor project may have been Lanz­ mann’s intention to complete a trilogy from his prior films Pourquoi Israël (1973) and Shoah with a film that complemented Shoah’s central theme of victimization by narrating the reappropriation of power and force. Lanzmann’s...

... to protest Israeli imperialism. The turning point of the New Left’s com- plicated relation to Israel began in 1967 with the Six Days’ War, when Israel, in a preemptive strike, defeated the armies of the surrounding Arab states. Members of Germany’s center-left government, along with the conservative...

... other Jewish scholars, such as Victor Aptowitzer, Isaac Gastfreund, Hartwig Hirschfeld, Josef Horovitz, Abraham Katsch, Eugen Mittwoch, Israel Schapiro, Martin Schreiner, David Sidersky, and Gustav Weil, who sought to demonstrate rabbinic parallels with early Islamic texts and Judaism’s influence...

.../ beloved are here not only distinguished as perspectives, but in relation to their function in salvation history. But neither of these two communities [Israel “of the flesh,” “spiritual” Israel “from the gen- tiles”] is lost, since “God cannot repent himself of his gifts and election” (11,29)) (JT-CS...

... of two new states, both founded at the beginning of the Cold War: the Federal Republic of Germany and the state of Israel. That these countries, given the most recent history between Germans and Jews, would have been shaped in defining ways by a common intellectual heritage seems unlikely...