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Catastrophe and Utopia
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ISBN: 3110557088 311055934X 9783110559347 9783110559354 3110559358 9783110555431 3110555433 3110555433 Year: 2017 Publisher: München Wien

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Catastrophe and Utopia studies the biographical trajectories, intellectual agendas, and major accomplishments of select Jewish intellectuals during the age of Nazism, and the partly simultaneous, partly subsequent period of incipient Stalinization. By focusing on the relatively underexplored region of Central and Eastern Europe – which was the primary centre of Jewish life prior to the Holocaust, served as the main setting of the Nazi genocide, but also had notable communities of survivors – the volume offers significant contributions to a European Jewish intellectual history of the twentieth century. Approaching specific historical experiences in their diverse local contexts, the twelve case studies explore how Jewish intellectuals responded to the unprecedented catastrophe, how they renegotiated their utopian commitments and how the complex relationship between the two evolved over time. They analyze proximate Jewish reactions to the most abysmal discontinuity represented by the Judeocide while also revealing more subtle lines of continuity in Jewish thinking. Ferenc Laczó is assistant professor in History at Maastricht University and Joachim von Puttkamer is professor of Eastern European History at Friedrich Schiller University Jena and director of the Imre Kertész Kolleg.


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Catastrophe and Utopia : Jewish Intellectuals in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s
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ISBN: 9783110559347 9783110557084 9783110555431 Year: 2017 Publisher: München ;; Wien De Gruyter Oldenbourg

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