In Times of Crisis: Essays on European Culture, Germans, and Jews

by Steven E. Aschheim

Book Overview

The nineteenth- and twentieth-century relationship between European culture, German history, and the Jewish experience produced some of the West's most powerful and enduring intellectual creations--and, perhaps in subtly paradoxical and interrelated ways, our century's darkest genocidal moments. In Times of Crisis explores the flashpoints of this vexed relationship, mapping the coordinates of a complex triangular encounter of immense historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299168646
• ISBN13: 9780299168643
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"