At the Edges of Liberalism

1. Introduction
Steven E. Aschheim

Part 1. On the Edges of Liberalism

2. Icons Beyond Their Borders: The German-Jewish Intellectual Legacy at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Steven E. Aschheim

3. The Modern Jewish Experience and the Entangled Web of Orientalism
Steven E. Aschheim

4. Bildung in Palestine: Zionism, Binationalism, and the Strains of German-Jewish Humanism
Steven E. Aschheim

Part 2. Three German Jews at the Junction

5. Hannah Arendt: Jewishness at the Edges
Steven E. Aschheim

6. The Metaphysical Psychologist: On the Life and Letters of Gershom Scholem
Steven E. Aschheim

7. Comrade Klemperer: Communism, Liberalism, and Jewishness in the GDR: The Later Diaries, 1945–1959

Steven E. Aschheim

Part 3. Evil at the Edges

8. Locating Nazi Evil: The Contrasting Visions of Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Victor Klemperer
Steven E. Aschheim

9. The Bonfires of Berlin: Historical and Contemporary Reflections on the Nazi Book Burnings
Steven E. Aschheim

10. Imaging the Absolute: Mapping Western Conceptions of Evil
Steven E. Aschheim

11. The Ambiguous Political Economy of Empathy
Steven E. Aschheim

Part 4. Encounters at the Junction: Jews and Western Culture

12. Reflections on Insiders and Outsiders
Steven E. Aschheim

13. Toward a Phenomenology of the Jewish Intellectual: The German and French Cases Compared
Steven E. Aschheim

14. Reflections on Theatricality, Identity, and the Modern Jewish Experience
Steven E. Aschheim

15. Between Rights, Respectability, and Resistance: Reframing the German-Jewish Experience
Steven E. Aschheim

Avainsanat: History, History of Germany and Central Europe, European History, History of Religion, Judaism, Modern History, World History, Global and Transnational History