Part II: Modernity and the Search for Identity Eszter Gantner The New Type of Internationalist The Case of Béla Balázs 91 Małgorzata A. Part I: The Rupture of 1933 and New Expressions of Jewishness in the Age of Nazi Germany Ines Koeltzsch Utopia as Everyday Practice Jewish Intellectuals and Cultural Translation in Prague before and after 1933 15 Marija Vulesica What Will Become of the German Jews? National Socialism, Flight and Resistance in the Intellectual Debate of Yugoslav Zionists in the 1930s 45 Gábor Schein ‘Jewishness’ in the Diary of Milán Füst 71 Table of contents Ferenc Laczó Introduction 1 Finally, we wish to thank Jaime Hyatt for all the highly diligent and conscientious work she has invested into ironing out many minor and a few major flaws, and for giving this manuscript its final touch. Daniela Gruber and Jaime Hyatt have held together the strings from all over Europe and successfully managed the editing process. Cram and Ben Robbins put great efforts into copy-editing the remaining papers. Lampert and Peter Sherwood for their excellent translations of those four chapters that were originally submitted in Polish, German and Hungarian. We would also like to thank Jasper Tilbury, David Burnett, Thomas N. We are especially grateful to the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for its generous financial support of our initiative. The editors are grateful to both institutions for their cooperation and hospitality. The volume took more concrete shape as the result of a one-day authorial workshop hosted by the Center for Historical Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Berlin on. © 2018 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston Satz: bsix information exchange GmbH, Braunschweig Druck und Bindung: CPI books GmbH, Leck ♾ Gedruckt auf säurefreiem Papier Printed in Germany Foreword Some of the core ideas of this volume were first raised at the panel ‘Catastrophe and Engagement: On Jewish Intellectual Trajectories’, which was part of Catastrophe and Utopia: Central and Eastern European Intellectual Horizons, 1933 to 1958, the 2013 annual conference of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena held in cooperation with the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Bibliografische Information der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Die Deutsche Nationalbibliothek verzeichnet diese Publikation in der Deutschen Nationalbibliografie detaillierte bibliografische Daten sind im Internet über abrufbar. ISBN 978-3-11-055543-1 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-055934-7 e-ISBN (EPUB) 978-3-11-055708-4 ISSN 2366-9489 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. The directors of the Kolleg are Professor Dr Joachim von Puttkamer and PhDr. The Kolleg was founded in October 2010 as the ninth Käte Hamburger Kolleg of the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF). Comparative Historical Experience” at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena is an institute for the advanced study of the history of Eastern Europe in the twentieth century. The Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena “Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Jahrhundert Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century Schriften des Imre Kertész Kollegs Jena Publications of the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena Herausgegeben von/Edited by Włodzimierz Borodziej Michal Kopeček Joachim von PuttkamerĬatastrophe and Utopia Jewish Intellectuals in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1930s and 1940s Edited by Ferenc Laczó and Joachim von Puttkamer
On the Ice Floe: Rachel Auerbach – The Life of a Yiddishist Intellectual in Early Twentieth Century Poland.įerenc Laczó and Joachim von Puttkamer (eds.) Catastrophe and UtopiaĮuropas Osten im 20. Part IV: From Utopias to Post-war Trajectories.įrom the Jewish Renaissance to Socialist Realism.Īvatars of being a Jewish Professor at the University of Bucharest in the First Half of the Twentieth Century. Part III: Unprecedented Catastrophe and Lines of Discursive Continuity.Ī Liberal Utopia Againt All Odds.įrom European Fascism to the Fate of the Jews. ‘Europe’ – It’s such a strange word for me!. Part II: Modernity and the Search for Identity. Part I: The Rupture of 1933 and New Expressions of Jewishness in the Age of Nazi Germany.