Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and the Scandal of Jewish Particularity

Both Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt sought to liberate the particularity of German-Jewish culture. Scholem worked against what Walter Benjamin called "apologetics," and Arendt decried the psychological alternation of pride and victimized isolation that market the German-Jewish alternati...

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Published inThe Germanic review Vol. 72; no. 1; pp. 57 - 76
Main Author Suchoff, David
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington, etc Taylor & Francis Group 1997
Heldref Publications, etc
Taylor & Francis Inc
Subjects
Arendt, Hannah
Assimilation
Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940)
Correspondence
Culture
Ethnic Identity
Ethnic Minorities
German language
German literature
Germany
Jewish Cultural Groups
Jewish people
Jews
Linguistic Minorities
Literary criticism
Scholem, Gershom
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Summary:Both Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt sought to liberate the particularity of German-Jewish culture. Scholem worked against what Walter Benjamin called "apologetics," and Arendt decried the psychological alternation of pride and victimized isolation that market the German-Jewish alternatives of parvenu and pariah.
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ISSN:0016-8890
1930-6962
DOI:10.1080/00168899709596634