Between Redemption & Perdition

Originally published in 1990, this book focuses on the challenge to Jewish identity posed by the conflicting forces of enlightenment, emancipation, modern political antisemitism, and secular ideologies like Zionism, nationalism, and socialism.

Auteur

Robert S. Wistrich was Professor of Modern European and Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Contenu

Introduction Part 1: Nemesis in Central Europe 1. Karl Marx and the Enlightenment 2. The Internationalism of Rosa Luxemburg 3. Antisemitism as a Radical Ideology 4. Karl Lueger in Historical Perspective 5. Hitler and National Socialism: The Austrian Connection Part 2: Culture, Marginality, And Identity 6. The Jewishness of Sigmund Freud 7. Dilemmas of Assimilation in Central Europe 8. Walter Benjamin: A Borderline Tragedy 9. The Strange Case of Bruno Kreisky 10. The Fassbinder Controversy Part 3: Jews, The Left, and Zionism 11. French Socialism and the Dreyfus Affair 12. A Parisian Patricide 13. The Ghost of Leon Trotsky 14. Vladimir Jabotinsky: A Reassessment 15. Between Prophecy and Politics 16. Zionism as a Jewish Revolution Part 4: From Antisemitism To Anti-Zionism 17. Antisemitism and the Origins of Zionism 18. The Myth of the Jew In Contemporary France 19. Global Anti-Zionism In the 1980s 20. The New War Against the Jews 21. Under the Sign of Glasnost 22. The Politics of Perdition 23. Soundings in the Gulf 24. The Fundamentalist Challenge