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A tale of two families: Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem and the generational conflict around Judaism. (establishing Jewish identity under Nazi rule)
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An analysis of Gershom Scholem's letters to his mother, and similar letters by the German-Jewish philosopher, Franz Rosenzweig, helps in understanding their role in strengthening Jewish identity in Nazi Germany. Some Jews learned from Gershom Scholem that their best chance of survival lay in learning German, while others gained from Franz Rosenzweig's letters a healthy Jewish consciousness that served as a bond in their isolation from German society at the time.
In Order to Reconstr...
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A tale of two families: Franz Rosenzweig, Gershom Scholem and the generational conflict around Judaism. (establishing Jewish identity under Nazi rule)
Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
; In Order to Reconstruct the Past, Historians sometimes have to be voyeurs, looking into the'r subjects' most private lives. Their binoculars are diaries, memoirs and personal letters, through which they gain occasional glances into the living rooms of previous eras. Gershom Scholem's correspondence
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On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life: Reflections on Freud and Rosenzweig.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Theological Studies
; By Eric L. Santner. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2001. Pp. viii + 156. $40; $16. This little book is big in theme and scope. Santner presents an important drama about modern life by mapping the vocabularies of a number of thinkers, one onto the other. The central figures are Sigmund Freud and
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(book reviews)
World Literature Today
; Elazar Benyoetz. Munich. Hanser. 1997. 168 pages. DM 34. ISBN 3446-19098-8. Commemorating Martin Buber's completion of his Bible translation, begun with Franz Rosenzweig in 1925, Gershom Scholem said in Jerusalem in 1961: Whether you consciously wished it or not, your translation was like a guest's
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Breaching the "walls of captivity": Gershom Scholem's studies of Jewish mysticism.(Theme Issue on Gershom Scholem)
The Germanic Review
; Gershom Scholem was born into a family that experienced firsthand the progression from traditional Judaism to profound assimilation into German bourgeois culture,(1) paralleled by their geographic move from Silesia and Poznan to the cosmopolitan city of Berlin. Whereas his grandfather expressed his
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Franz Rosenzweig and Religious Music.
Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
; IT IS ALMOST LUDICROUS TO THINK OF THE GREAT FRANZ Rosenzweig as a mere reviewer of phonograph records. The author of the masterpiece Star of Redemption can hardly be conceived of as a journeyman music critic for a semi-popular magazine. But he was, at least for several years toward the very end of
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Franz Rosenzweig and religious music
Judaism
; IT IS ALMOST LUDICROUS TO THINK OF THE GREAT FRANZ Rosenzweig as a mere reviewer of phonograph records. The author of the masterpiece "Star of Redemption" can hardly be conceived of as a journeyman music critic for a semi-popular magazine. But he was, at least for several years toward the very end
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In the end shall Christians become Jews and Jews, Christians? On Franz Rosenzweig's apocalyptic eschatology (1).
Cross Currents
; Gershom Scholem's peerless 1959 essay Toward an Understanding of the Messianic Idea in Judaism distinguishes two major currents of thought. On the one hand with redemption the restorative forces are directed to the return and recreation of a past condition which comes to be felt as ideal. On the
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Time, form, and content: Franz Rosenzweig and the secret of biblical narration.
Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
; ... what is being told applies to him in the present. Thus, he is to listen as if he were listening to the Greek bearer of tragic news. The teller relates the story as if he were an eyewitness. What is immediately past concerns us closely; what is farther back ...
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Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and the scandal of Jewish particularity.(Theme Issue on Gershom Scholem)
The Germanic Review
; Wilhelm von Humboldt, one of the rare genuine German democrats . . . looked back in 1816 to the days of his public battle for Jewish rights and his many years of public intercourse with Jews and said: I love the Jews really only en masse, en detail I strictly avoid him. --Hannah Arendt, Privileged
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The Fullness of Time: Poems.(Literature: Fiction, Drama, Poetry)
Shofar
; The Fullness of Time: Poems, by Gershom Scholem, translated by Richard Sieburth, introduction and annotations by Steven M. Wasserstrom. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003. 160 pp. $13.95. ISBN 965-90125-3-5. This bilingual volume gathers together a selection of Gershom Scholem's poems. It
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