Journal ArticlePhilosophy of the Social Sciences · January 1, 2023
Popper and Agassi diverged on nationalism. Popper was a trenchant critic whereas Agassi formed a theory of liberal nationalism. At the root of their disagreement was Popper’s refusal of Jewish identity and rejection of Zionism, in contrast with Agassi’s af ...
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Journal ArticleAnnali di Storia delle Universita Italiane · June 1, 2020
The Talmud has only entered the sphere of the university in recent decades. While the struggle over biblical interpretation shaped Christian-Jewish relations for two millennia, Christian culture was hostile to the Talmud from its «discovery» in the High Mi ...
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Book · January 1, 2019
Jacob and Esau is a profound new account of two millennia of Jewish European history that, for the first time, integrates the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with that of traditional Jews and Jewish culture. Malachi Haim Hacohen uses the bibl ...
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Chapter · January 1, 2018
In The Open Society, written in New Zealand during WWII, Karl Popper invented the cosmopolitan democratic empire as an antidote to ethnonationalism. Popper, a non-Marxist socialist, protested that the nation-state was a charade and, in his portrayal of cla ...
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Journal ArticleLeo Baeck Institute Year Book · 2017
In the past two decades, U.S. historians of Western colonialism and of central Europe have underlined empire’s normativity and the nation state’s exceptionalism. The implications of the imperial turn for Jewish European history are this essay’s subject. It ...
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Chapter · 2017
The Jacob & Esau typology collapsed in the aftermath of the Holocaust and the State of Israel. Christians renounced the supersessionist typology with Vatican II and Protestant initiatives for Christian–Jewish Dialogue. Religious Zionists wove Edom into a m ...
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Journal ArticleJournal of Modern Jewish Studies · January 1, 2014
This essay uses the Viennese remigré writer and journalist, Friedrich Torberg (1908-1979), his Austrian Jewish cohort, and their invented "Central Europe" and "Austrian Literature" to argue for a paradigmatic shift in émigré historiography. The cosmopolita ...
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Book · 2014
The nexus between innovative intellectual contributions and the émigré experience was at the center of the conference in Furst’s memory. European Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany and Europe have become in the last two decades a major interdisciplinary rese ...
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Journal ArticleModern Intellectual History · August 1, 2009
Vienna's scientific culture has long attracted historians' attention. Impressive though the scientific accomplishments of Viennese scientists were, and recognized by numerous Nobel prizes, they alone do not account for the historians' interest. Rather, Vie ...
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Journal ArticleHistory of European Ideas · June 1, 2008
The paper focuses on the problematic relationship between Talmon's liberalism and Zionism. My argument is that Talmon's nationalism (Zionism included)-historicist, romantic, visionary-lived in permanent tension with his liberalism-empiricist, pluralist, pr ...
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Journal ArticlePhilosophy of the Social Sciences · January 1, 1996
This article explores the impact of Popper's exile on the formation of The Open Society. It proposes homelessness as a major motif in Popper's life and work. His emigration from clerical-fascist Austria, sojourn in New Zealand during World War II, and soci ...
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Journal ArticleHistory and Theory · January 1, 1996
This essay explores the methodological and historiographical legacy of Leonard Krieger (1918-1990), one of the most sophisticated and influential intellectual historians of his generation. The author argues that Krieger's mode of historicization exemplifie ...
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