Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Editors’ Note xiii
5. Introduction: Reading Steven Aschheim 1
6. Part I Strauss, Scholem, Arendt, Benjamin
7. Chapter 1 A Zionist Critique of Jewish Politics: The Early Thought of Leo Strauss 17
8. Chapter 2 Leo Strauss Reading Karl Marx during the Cold War 32
9. Chapter 3 Gershom Scholem, Einst und Jetzt: Zionist Politics and Kabbalistic Historiography 51
10. Chapter 4 Death or Birth: Scholem and Secularization 64
11. Chapter 5 Fragments from a Correspondence (Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem) A Poem 86
12. Part II Politica Positioning in Hard Times
13. Chapter 6 In Heidegger’s Shadow: Ernst Cassirer, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Question of the Political 93
14. Chapter 7 Walther Rathenau’s Dilemma: Modernity and the Human Soul 104
15. Chapter 8 “Nothing But a Disillusioned Love”? Hans Kohn’s Break with the Zionist Movement 117
16. Chapter 9 Historicism and the Event 143
17. Part III Brothers and Strangers: The Issue of Identity
18. Chapter 10 Asiatic Brothers, European Strangers: Eugen Hoeflich and Pan-Asian Zionism in Vienna 171
19. Chapter 11 “Brothers and Strangers” The American Example 186
20. Chapter 12 “Man Kann Verjuden” Paradoxes of Exemplarity 198
21. Part IV In the Shadow of the Holocaust
22. Chapter 13 A “Usable Past” and the Crisis of European Jews: Popular Jewish Historiography in Germany, France, and Hungary in the 1930s 213
23. Chapter 14 Three Jewish Émigrés at Nuremberg: Jacob Robinson, Hersch Lauterpacht, and Raphael Lemkin 240
24. Chapter 15 The Frankfurt School and the “Jewish Question,” 1940–1970 255
25. Chapter 16 Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: Challenges, Limitations, and Opportunities 277
26. Contributors 285
27. Selected Bibliography 289
28. Index 295