The Jews Among the NationsThis is an augmented edition of a superb volume by one of the foremost analysts of European institutions and ideas. Here the late Erich Kahler turns his attention to the special character of the Jewish people, formed uniquely through the interaction of internal and external circumstances in which past and present merge. The chapters in this book deal with persistent problems of Jewish identity. Kahler claims these can be fully understood only by awareness of the close interconnection between the singular ethnic nature and the unique social structure of the Jewish people. He discusses the Jews in Europe, specifically the historical implications of a strict tribal ritual that yet permitted the widest spiritual scope. The second half of the book concerns anti-Semitism, in relation to Jews and Germans. How did the German people, seemingly so congenial to the Jews, develop a murderous revulsion against them, ending a long and fruitful symbiosis? Kahler sees this as a parallel to the parricidal rejection of the Jews by the Christian church. His argument is deepened in an added chapter, new to this volume, on the major forms and features of anti-Judaism, 'in which the earlier theme of the universal and the specific are seen as central not only to the inner history of Judaism but also to the specific interaction of Jews and Gentiles throughout social history. |
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... new introduction by Harry Zohn and an added chapter , " Forms and Features of Anti - Judaism , " by Erich Kahler International Relations The Jews Among the Nations Erich Kahler Judaica. THE JEWS AMONG THE NATIONS Front Cover.
Erich Kahler. International Relations The Jews Among the Nations Erich Kahler Judaica With a new introduction by Harry Zohn and an added chapter , " Forms and Features of Anti - Judaism , " by Erich Kahler This is an augmented edition of ...
Erich Kahler. THE JEWS AMONG THE NATIONS ERICH KAHLER With a new introduction by Harry Zohn and an added chapter , " Forms and Features of Anti - Judaism , " by Erich Kahler Transaction Publishers New Brunswick ( U.S.A. ) and Oxford ...
Erich Kahler. Table of Contents INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION FORMS AND FEATURES OF ANTI - JUDAISM WHAT ARE THE JEWS ? vii XV 1 THE JEWS IN EUROPE 31 THE JEWS AND THE GERMANS 95 Appendix THE JEWS AND THE ARABS IN PALESTINE 123 ...
... Anti - Judaism , " originally published in Social Research ( November 1939 ) , included as " Ursprung und Wandel des Judenhasses " in Kahler's 1952 collection Verantwortung des Geistes and here added to the collection of 1967 , concerns ...
Contents
WHAT ARE THE JEWS? | 1 |
THE JEWS IN EUROPE | 31 |
THE JEWS AND THE GERMANS | 95 |
THE JEWS AND THE ARABS ON PALESTINE | 121 |