"The brilliance of Diner's essays stems in good part from the astonishingly wide perspectives in which he sets his inquiries and from the interdisciplinary synthesis he is able to master. Publication in English is of extreme importance in enriching the debates on Nazism and the Holocaust in this country."--Saul Friedlander, author of "Nazi Germany and the Jews" "One of the most probing and intellectually sophisticated historians of the German Jewish conundrum, Dan Diner has a quality of mind and an intellectual depth and precision that are altogether unique."--Anson Rabinbach, author of "In the Shadow of Catastrophe"
Exploring a complex idea that emerged around 1800, the author examines the German intelligentsia's perception of the United States as both a land of opportunity and a home for greedy hypocrites disconnected from higher culture. Throughout the Romantic period and into the Cold War, this theme evolved with each historical shift, yet its core remained consistent, reflecting the nuanced relationship between German views and American society.
Diner sets out to describe why the Arab world changes so slowly, in this controversial but refreshingly un-Anglo-Saxon search for answers to some outsized questions."--(Michael Cook, Princeton University).
Exploring the perception of the United States by German intellectuals since 1800, the book delves into a complex relationship marked by admiration and criticism. While many viewed America as a land of opportunity, a segment of the German intelligentsia critiqued it as a realm of greed and cultural estrangement. Throughout the Romantic period and into the Cold War, this ambivalence evolved, reflecting the changing dynamics of German history while maintaining a consistent core theme of cultural critique.
Proceedings of a conference on Kelsen and Schmitt held Jan. 5-6, 1997 in Tel Aviv and organized by the Max Planck Institute of European Legal History, Frankfurt/Main and the Institute for German History at Tel Aviv University
Geschichte und Lebenswelt. Festschrift zur Emeritierung von Moshe Zimmermann
344pages
13 heures de lecture
Looking at the dislocations in German history in the nineteenth and twentieth century, nineteen historians from different generations and with different approaches explore questions of theory and method, structure and society, biography and everyday culture. The focus is on topics in German-Jewish history, National Socialism, sports – in particular soccer –, and the place of German history within modernity. With this volume, friends and colleagues, e. g. Norbert Frey, Hans Mommsen, and Hans-Urlich Wehler, pay tribute to the work of the historian Moshe Zimmermann on the occasion of his retirement.
Dieser von Dan Diner und Moshe Zimmermann herausgegebene Sammelband vereint Beiträge namhafter Historiker, die im Rahmen einer von der Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung unterstützten Vortragsreihe an den Universitäten von Tel Aviv und Jerusalem gehalten wurden. Sie widmen sich dem Einfluss der deutschen Forschungstradition des 19. Jahrhunderts auf das israelische wissenschaftliche Denken, besonders in den Geisteswissenschaften, und geben jeweils die Ergebnisse der jahrzehntelangen akademischen Arbeit der Referenten in konzentrierter und resümierender Form wieder. Mit Beiträgen von Reinhart Koselleck, Peter Pulzer, George L. Mosse, Sander L. Gilman, Andrei S. Markovits, Michael H. Kater, Charles S. Maier und Charles E. McClelland. The circumstance that the German-centred intellectual discourse on knowledge and meaning accomplished something like a formative impact internationally, and this to a larger degree via the tragic fact of forced migration and expulsion from Germany envisioned by Nazi policy and its later repercussions in canon-building, suggests something like coming full circle. Its nature, however, is different: it has processed itself through a transforming discourse detached from Germany as a domain of historical experience. Neutralized in such a garb, it exercises a distinctive impact on present-day Israeli cultural life and academia.
