The Jewish Imperial Imagination: Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought

✍ Scribed by Yaniv Feller

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023
Tongue: English
Leaves: 254
Series: Ideas in Context
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Leo Baeck (1873–1956) was a rabbi, public intellectual, and the official leader of German Jewry during the Holocaust. The Jewish Imperial Imagination shows the myriad ways in which the German imperial enterprise left its imprint on his religious and political thought, and on modern Judaism more generally. This book is the first to explore Baeck's religious thought as political, and situate it within the imperial context of the period which is often ignored in discussions of modern Jewish thought. Baeck's work during the Holocaust is analysed in-depth, drawing on unpublished manuscripts written in Nazi Germany and in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. In the process Yaniv Feller raises new questions about the nature of Jewish missionizing and the German-Jewish imagination of the East as a space for colonisation. He thus develops the concept of the 'Jewish imperial imagination', moving beyond a simple dichotomy of ascribing to or resisting hegemonic narratives.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Series information
Title page
Imprints page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Jewish and Colonial Questions
Emancipation and Empire
Political Imagination
Imperial Constellations
Chapter 1 Under the Aegis of Empire
Theological Colonization
Converting the World
Tilling the Heathen Fields
A Struggle for Existence
Chapter 2 Saving Christianity from Itself
Cultural Conquest
Peace and the Prussian State
The New without the Old
Romantic Experience
Chapter 3 Vulnerable Existence
Race and Space
A Jewish Civic Truce
The Existence of the Jew
Pointing Fingers
The Limits of Atonement
Chapter 4 Forced Labor
Shifting Landscapes
The Imperial Imagination of the Second World War
A Contested Manuscript
Colonies and Motherland
Jewish Difference
Chapter 5 Seeking Hope
The Ever-Shrinking Space
Athens and Jerusalem
After Catastrophe
Chapter 6 Cold War Judaism
The Ellipse of Jewish Existence
The Jewish Tasks
No World Peace without Religion
Epilogue: Remembering German Jewry, Forgetting Empire
The Temple
The Institute
The House
Bibliography
Index

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