Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Legacy Abroad

by Steven E. Aschheim

The modern German-Jewish experience through the rise of Nazism in 1933 was characterized by an explosion of cultural and intellectual creativity. Yet well after that history has ended, the influence of Weimar German-Jewish intellectuals has become ever greater. Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Leo Strauss have become household names and possess a continuing resonance. Beyond the Border...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691122237
• ISBN13: 9780691122236
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"