Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. I Bergmann’s Prague and Czech Lands
5. Village Memories and National Renewal: Prague to Jerusalem via Chraštice and Galicia 9
6. “Our Attitude to the Yiddish Language” Hugo Bergmann on the Yiddish Language, a Comparison with Kafka and Langer, and the Yiddish Research in the Czech Republic 23
7. “The Lifeline”: Max Brod and Hugo Bergmann 41
8. Theodor Lessing, Hugo Bergmann, and the “Prague Circle” 53
9. Bergmann’s Prague Years 1883–1919: A Man beyond Categories of his Era 61
10. The Jewish National Movement in the Czech Lands During the First Republic and Hugo Bergmann: Czech Jews amid Jewish, Czech and Czechoslovak Identities 69
11. The Last Chapter? Leo Herrmann and the Czech Transfer (1938–1939) 79
12. II Bergmann in Palestine and Israel
13. “There are so Many Ways of Spiritual Development”: Shmuel Hugo Bergmann’s Interests in Western Esoteric and Alternative Spiritual Currents 97
14. “Is the Spirit of the Fathers still Alive?” Hugo Bergmann Between the Zionist Dream, Search for Justice, and Inner Doubts 119
15. To Be a Librarian in 1920 – What Did that Mean? Samuel Hugo Bergmann the Librarian 129
16. III Philosophy and Theology
17. Bergmann as a Conduit of European Philosophy: The Case of Martin Heidegger 153
18. Embracing an Anthroposophical Vision of Judaism: Schmuel Hugo Bergmann Reads Ernst Müller 171
19. A Leap of Faith. Samuel Hugo Bergmann as a Disciple of Buber and Rosenzweig 181
20. Hugo Bergmann’s India. From Nehru to Aurobindo and “The Mother” 197
21. Bibliography 223
22. About the Authors 243
23. Index of Persons 249