Suchergebnisse

Political implications of Judaism -- The strangeness of Jewish leftism / Michael Walzer -- Antisemitism and the left -- The dualisms of capitalist modernity : reflections on history, the Holocaust, and antisemitism / Moishe Postone -- Marxism's other Jewish questions / Lars Fischer -- Israel, Zionism, and the left -- Socialist Zionism and nation building / Anita Shapira -- Delegitimation of Israel or social-historical analysis? : the debate over Zionism as a colonial settler movement / Yoav Peled -- Does the left have a Zionist problem? : from the general to a particular / Mitchell Cohen -- Jews and communism -- Jews and communism in the Soviet Union and Poland / Antony Polonsky -- Jews and American communism / Harvey Klehr -- Gendered perspectives -- Gesia Gelfman : a Jewish woman on the left in imperial Russia / Barbara Alpern Engel -- Manya Schochat and her travelling guns : Jewish radical women from pogrom self-defense to the first kibbutzim / Deborah Hertz -- The gender of Jews and the politics of women : a reflection / Alice Kessler-Harris -- Canonical figures -- Gershom Scholem and the left / Steven E. Aschheim -- The romantic socialism of Gustav Landauer / Michael Löwy -- Martin Buber between left and right / Uri Ram -- Case studies -- The Soviet Union, Jewish concerns, and the New York electoral left, 1939-1944 / Daniel Soyer -- Jews and the left at the new school -- Judith Friedlander -- Deutscher and the Jews : on the non-Jewish Jew--an analysis and personal reflection / Samuel Farber

The history of the Frankfurt School cannot be fully told without examining the relationships of Critical Theorists to their Jewish family backgrounds. Jewish matters had significant effects on key figures in the Frankfurt School, including Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno, Erich Fromm, Leo Lowenthal and Herbert Marcuse. At some points, their Jewish family backgrounds clarify their life paths; at others, these backgrounds help to explain why the leaders of the School stressed the significance of antisemitism. In the post-Second World War era, the differing relationships of Critical Theorists to their Jewish origins illuminate their distinctive stances toward Israel. This book investigates how the Jewish backgrounds of major Critical Theorists, and the ways in which they related to their origins, impacted upon their work, the history of the Frankfurt School, and differences that emerged among them over time