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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Germany: 1929-38 -- 1. In Search of the Meaning of the Misfortune -- 2. The Creation of a Usable Past -- Part 2. France: 1932-40 -- 3. Facing the Crisis at Home and Abroad -- 4. From the Anschluss to the Anniversary of the Revolution -- Part 3. Hungary: 1933-44 -- 5. Facing the Decline of Emancipation: Hungarian Jews in the 1930s -- 6. In the Shadow of the Holocaust -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

The field of modern European Jewish history, as I hope to show, can be of great interest to those who deal with conceptual history in other contexts, just as much as the conceptual historical project may enrich the study of Jewish history. This article illuminates the transformation of the Jewish languages in Eastern Europe-Hebrew and Yiddish-from their complex place in traditional Jewish society to the modern and secular Jewish experience. It presents a few concrete examples for this process during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The article then deals with the adaptation of Central and Western European languages within the internal Jewish discourse in these parts of Europe and presents examples from Germany, France, and Hungary.

Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I · Introductory Considerations -- 1. Antisemitism: On the Meanings and Uses of a Contested Term -- 2. Thinking about "Antisemitism" -- II · Methodological Explorations -- 3. History and Noise -- 4. Erotohistoriography: Sensory and Emotional Dimensions of Antisemitism -- 5. Toward Entanglement -- III · Premodern Contextualizations -- 6. Separation, Judeophobia, and the Birth of the "Goy": The Chicken and the Egg -- 7. Antisemitism and Islamophobia: A Medieval Comparison -- 8. The Term "Antisemitism" as a Category for the Study of Medieval Jewish History -- IV · Modern Contestations -- 9. "Feverish Preference": Philosemitism, Anti-antisemitism, and Their Critics -- 10. Cautious Use of the Term "Antisemitism"-for Lack of an Alternative: Interwar Poland as a Test Case -- 11. America and the Keyword Battle Over "Antisemitism" -- 12. "Fog in Channel-Continent Cut Off?": Remarks on Antisemitism, Pride, and Prejudice in Britain -- 13. A Retreat from Universalism: Opposing and Defining Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Britain, ca. 1990-2018 -- V · Post-Holocaust Ruminations -- 14. In Defense of the Concept of "Antisemitism" in Holocaust Studies -- 15. "Antisemitism" as a Question in Holocaust Studies -- 16. Is There Christian Antisemitism?: The History of an Intra-Catholic Debate, 1965-2000 -- VI · Concluding Explanations -- 17. Can the Circle Be Broken? -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

Highlighting the seminal role of German Jewish intellectuals and ideologues in forming and transforming the modern Jewish world, this volume analyzes the political roads taken by German Jewish thinkers; the impact of the Holocaust on the Central and East European Jewish intelligentsia; and the conundrum of modern Jewish identity. Several of German Jewry's most outstanding figures such as Scholem, Strauss, and Kohn are discussed. Inspired by Steven E. Aschheim's work, several contributors focus on the fraught relationship between German and East European Jews (the so-called Ostjuden) and between German Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors. More generally, this book examines how Central European Jewish thinkers reacted to the terrible crises of the twentieth century—to war, genocide, and the existential threat to the very existence of the Jewish people. It is essential reading for those interested in the triumphs and tragedies of modern European Jewry