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Catastrophe and Utopia: Jewish Intellectuals in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s

Catastrophe and Utopia: Jewish Intellectuals in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s

Laczo, Ferenc
Von Puttkamer, Joachim

Hardcover

Series: Europas Osten Im 20. Jahrhundert, Book 7

Eastern European HistoryGeneral European HistoryGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 3110555433
ISBN13: 9783110555431
Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
Published: Nov 20 2017
Pages: 363
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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