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New German Critique (2012) 39 (1 (115)): 199–224.
Published: 01 February 2012
...Noah B. Strote This essay traces the historical evolution of a novel type of individual in western and especially German-speaking Europe at the turn of the twentieth century: the Jew who recognized himself, and was recognized by others, through the way he thought as opposed to how he looked...
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Published: 01 February 2024
Figure 4. Photographs depicting the persecutions of the Viennese Jews in March 1938. Although most Austrian Holocaust victims are known by name, hardly any of them appear in the exhibition. Photograph by the author, courtesy of the DÖW. More
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 61–79.
Published: 01 November 2012
...Atina Grossmann In this article Grossmann addresses a transnational Holocaust story that has remained marginalized in both historiography and commemoration. The majority of the quarter million Jews who constituted the “saved remnant” ( She'erit Hapleta ) of eastern European Jewry collected...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (2 (146)): 15–48.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of their writings (including those of Arendt), and supported the process of Gleichschaltung as the first steps in creating a nazified Germany. While Schmitt claimed that the Jews have no access to German substance, culture, and language, noting that “the Jew lies when he speaks German,” Arendt always emphasized...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 149–181.
Published: 01 February 2009
... of society so characteristic of fascist ideologies. Using the phenomenological insights of Martin Heidegger and Ernst Nolte to recount the history of the Nazi Volkskörper , I describe the meaning this manifestation of the body of the German people had for the Jew as a body, in general, and as a foreign body...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 9–33.
Published: 01 February 2017
... it, intensified it, and derived from it their destructive policies on art. “Looted art” was a last step and parallel consequence of developments that included the expulsion of the Jews from German society. Degenerate art and looted art should not be conflated, but they are to some degree interwoven. The article...
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New German Critique (2016) 43 (1 (127)): 195–214.
Published: 01 February 2016
..., anti-Semitic ideology appears to be initially a liberal phenomenon, an expression of a “false consciousness,” while in Nazi Germany the extermination of the Jews became a political institution, a pillar of the state. © 2016 by New German Critique, Inc. 2016 anti-Semitism state capitalism...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 47–59.
Published: 01 November 2012
..., genetics, and the use of science in such contexts is exemplified by Sarrazin's claims about the genetic inheritance of the Jews in his book and interviews. Gilman examines Sarrazin's argument, his American sources, and their resonance in contemporary German debates about race and immigration. © 2012...
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 91–107.
Published: 01 November 2012
.... They presented Islam as derived from Judaism, and under whose aegis, especially in medieval Muslim Spain, Jews enjoyed not only religious tolerance but cultural and economic flourishing. The image of Islam was of a rational religion that maintained Judaism's monotheism, rejection of anthropomorphism, and ethical...
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (3 (123)): 113–134.
Published: 01 November 2014
... violent dissolution. Second, it juxtaposes Spielzeugland with the British film The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008), which stages a situation in which the “wrong” person, that is, a non-Jew, is sent to death in the gas chamber. By evoking and then rewriting the narrative of the “wrong” victim...
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (3 (132)): 123–144.
Published: 01 November 2017
... 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...
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 221–252.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Bruce Rosenstock Abstract The article argues that Martin Heidegger and Oskar Goldberg share a common gnostic motif of the “flight of the gods from the earth” and that both thinkers seek to prepare their people (the Germans, the Jews) for a “second beginning” of metaphysics that would restore...
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New German Critique (2022) 49 (3 (147)): 187–214.
Published: 01 November 2022
..., antisemitism continued in the antifascist, anticapitalist context of both East and West Germany, as shown in The Aesthetics : Jews were portrayed as duplicitous and accused of treason, as “spies.” Weiss himself experienced leftist antisemitism and took this narrative detour to Southeast Asia to address...
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New German Critique (2011) 38 (1 (112)): 181–215.
Published: 01 February 2011
... ) proved the most shocking text of the second Oyneg Shabes cache for the way it vehemently alleges Jewish complicity in the systematic murder of the Jews of Warsaw and even harshly criticizes the victims themselves. This article analyzes the East-West polemic over Holocaust memory that erupted around...
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (3 (150)): 81–92.
Published: 01 November 2023
...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...
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 109–142.
Published: 01 February 2024
... original spatial connotation as “unhomely,” the analysis contextualizes the latent presence of the inhabitants in images of vacant interiors through a discussion of the historical change in the domestic life of Jews in the face of the increasing Nazification of the public space. Focusing...
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 115–143.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to participate in and influence this discourse. The article argues that in manipulating and decontextualizing Heimat iconography, prominent Jewish filmmakers were able to introduce the aspirations and fears of integration-seeking outsiders—of German Jews—into the discourse of German nationality. The similarities...
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Published: 01 February 2024
Figure 7. The dedication page of the album gifted to Gerda von der Porten (later Ottenstein): “To my dear Gerda, in memory of your parents’ and [your] birth house in Hamburg Mittelweg 118. May 1938.” Courtesy of the Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg. More
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New German Critique (2023) 50 (1 (148)): 155–178.
Published: 01 February 2023
... of violence and the constitution of the self. This article therefore also looks at Améry’s writings on violence and the thought of Frantz Fanon (1925–61). What does Améry—an Austrian Jew born as Hans Mayer, who survived torture by the Gestapo and the horrors of Auschwitz—have to do with the Martinican...
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (1 (106)): 21–34.
Published: 01 February 2009
... hundred thousand copies, has any idea of those most German affairs like the mass murder of World War II and the intentional annihilation of European Jews on the part of Nazi Germans. A cry rings out like thunder: “Nice try, Mr. Littell!” 1. This section of the essay originally appeared...