Jewish Memory and the Cosmopolitan Order: Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Condition

by Natan Sznaider

Book Overview

Natan Sznaider offers a highly original account of Jewish memory and politics before and after the Holocaust. It seeks to recover an aspect of Jewish identity that has been almost completely lost today - namely, that throughout much of their history Jews were both a nation and cosmopolitan, they lived in a constant tension between particularism and universalism. And it is precisely this tension, which Sznaider seeks to capture in his innovative conception...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745647960
• ISBN13: 9780745647968
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"