Towards an Ahistorical Jewishness: The Idea of Jewish Essence in the German-Jewish Avant-Garde

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. The Avant-Garde and Jewish Traditions
6. Dada Judaism: The Avant-Garde in First World War Zurich 23
7. Jews and the Avant-Garde: The Case of Romania 35
8. Towards an Ahistorical Jewishness: The Idea of Jewish Essence in the German-Jewish Avant-Garde 53
9. Community Building and Cultural Conflicts
10. Carl Einstein, Jewishness, and the Communities of the European Avant-Garde 71
11. Challenging the Literary Community: The Warsaw Yiddish Avant-Garde and Khalyastre 85
12. Modern Jewish Sculptors and the Cultural Policy of the USSR in the 1920s–1930s 101
13. Self-Representation and Anti-Semitism
14. Frontière humaine: Race, Nation, and the Shape of Representation in Claude Cahun 119
15. Arnold Schoenberg’s Jewish Veil: The Workings of Anti-Semitic Rhetoric in Die glückliche Hand, Op. 18 (1913) 141
16. Saints and Tsadikim – The Religious Syncretism of Jewish Expressionism 161
17. Between Ecstasy and Lament: Revelationism and Messianism in Epstein and Godard 193
18. The Mad Book: Der Nister as Unreliable Author in From my Estate (1929) 207
19. The Role of Judaism in Benjamin Fondane’s Existential Philosophy 227
20. Jews in the Avant-Garde: A Historical Perspective
21. The Avant-Garde and the Jews 253
22. Notes on Contributors 275