Jewish Encounters with Buddhism in German Culture: Between Moses and Buddha, 1890-1940
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Buddhism and German-Jewish Orientalism -- Orientalism and the Jews -- The Prosthetic Function of Buddhism -- Permeable Boundaries: German, Jewish, Buddhist -- Chapter 3: The Buddha, the Rabbis, and the Philosophers: Reject...
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Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing AG
2019
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In: | Year: 2019 |
Series/Journal: | Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies
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Jews-Germany-Intellectual life-20th century
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Summary: | Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Buddhism and German-Jewish Orientalism -- Orientalism and the Jews -- The Prosthetic Function of Buddhism -- Permeable Boundaries: German, Jewish, Buddhist -- Chapter 3: The Buddha, the Rabbis, and the Philosophers: Rejections and Defenses -- The Buddha-Jesus Literature -- Buddhism as the Religion of the Future -- Rabbinic Responses -- Philosophers and the Buddha: Franz Rosenzweig -- Martin Buber and Theodor Lessing -- Chapter 4: The Bridgebuilders: Jewishness Between Asia and Europe -- Paul Cohen-Portheim: A Mission Between East and West -- Feuchtwanger and the Jewish Way of Renunciation -- Excursus on Friedrich Schlegel's Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier -- Jud Süß-Feuchtwanger's Buddhist Bestseller -- Jakob Wassermann and the Quest for Justice -- Walter Hasenclever: A Buddhist Prophet in Dire Times -- Chapter 5: The Assimilation and Dissimilation of a Buddhist Jew: Walter Tausk's Contested Identities -- Lessons from the War -- The 1920s: Tausk Between Assimilation and Dissimilation -- Methodological Interlude: Contradictions in Everyday Life -- Tausk on Antisemitism and the Ostjuden -- A Jewish Buddhist in the Third Reich -- In Lieu of a Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Toward the Study of Jewish-Buddhist Relations -- Bibliography -- I. Archival Material -- II. Primary and Secondary Literature: -- Index. |
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ISBN: | 3030274691 |