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Mit Ludwig Feuchtwangers Jüdischer Geschichte ist ein bislang unpubliziert gebliebenes Werk jüdischer Historiographie zu entdecken. Der Autor, Verleger bei Duncker & Humblot und Bruder von Lion Feuchtwanger, behandelt in dem unvollendeten, gleichwohl vom Autor selbst zum Druck bestimmten Text die Zeit von 1200 v.u.Z. bis 1250 n.u.Z. Dabei nimmt er viele paradigmatische Gestalten der jüdischen Geschichte (wie Philon und Maimonides) in den Blick und betont die zentrale Bedeutung der Religion für die "Selbstbehauptung" des Judentums in seiner Geschichte. Im historischen Spiegel erörtert Feuchtwanger die großen Fragen nach "Todfeindschaft" und Fremdherrschaft, Assimilierung, Exodus und Exil und richtet sich dabei mit seiner kulturgeschichtlichen Rekonstruktion der jüdischen "Lebensordnung" auch explizit gegen eine idealistische Verengung auf eine Philosophie des Gesetzes. Feuchtwangers 1935-38 entstandener Text gehört damit in den Kontext eines bemerkenswerten Phänomens, das Michael Brenner für die Zeit nach 1933 als letztes "Aufflammen jüdischer Geschichtsschreibung im Nationalsozialismus" bezeichnet hat.

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Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being--and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience. Wisse broadly traces modern Jewish humor around the world, teasing out its implications as she explores memorable and telling examples from German, Yiddish, English, Russian, and Hebrew. Among other topics, the book looks at how Jewish humor channeled Jewish learning and wordsmanship into new avenues of creativity, brought relief to liberal non-Jews in repressive societies, and enriched popular culture in the United States. Even as it invites readers to consider the pleasures and profits of Jewish humor, the book asks difficult but fascinating questions: Can the excess and extreme self-ridicule of Jewish humor go too far and backfire in the process? And is "leave 'em laughing" the wisest motto for a people that others have intended to sweep off the stage of history?

Jewish wit and humor --- History and criticism --- Jews --- Humor --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- History and criticism.

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This book outlines some aspects of Jewish intellectual life in the nineteenth and twentieth century, presenting a narrative of the relationship between Jewish scholars and their cultural environment. It investigates the language of conformity and dissent and interprets it as an imaginative grammar, comprising an arsenal of images, concepts, and interpretations. There is a special focus on German roots, for Germany played a major role as an intellectual laboratory in the areas of the (new) branches of academic life. This book consists of four parts: i) Searching for a Scientific Language; ii) "And the Jews": Political and Cultural History of a Conjunction; iii) Creative Languages: The Interstitial Spaces of Monotheism; iv) Disjunction: The Jewish Dissenter. A bibliography as well as detailed indexes of authors, scholars and subjects are included.

Jews --- Language and languages --- Grammar --- Grammar, Polyglot --- Polyglot grammar --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- Languages --- History --- Grammars.