Jewish Organizations in Transatlantic Perspective
Patterns of Contemporary Jewish Politics in Germany and the United States
by Sebastian Hoepfner
Hardback (Published)
(July 2012)
ISBN: 9783825360733
5.28 x 8.27 inches
Price: $59.00
In stock
Is there, after all, such a thing as “Jewish politics”? While expressions like Jewish culture, Jewish art, Jewish literature or Jewish humor have become part of our everyday language, it is far less self-evident to draw a similar parallel with regard to the Jewish political experience. By focusing on the most important contemporary Jewish political organizations in Germany and the United States, this study attempts to illuminate distinct patterns of Jewish politics from a decidedly transatlantic perspective and further discusses the suitability of the term for scholarly inquiry in political and social science. It argues that an accurate representation of American Jewish politics includes more than the discourse about an alleged “Israel lobby”; in addition, it offers a detailed account of the politics of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, one of the least studied – and perhaps least understood – organizations in German political life today.
Is there, after all, such a thing as “Jewish politics”? While expressions like Jewish culture, Jewish art, Jewish literature or Jewish humor have become part of our everyday language, it is far less self-evident to draw a similar parallel with regard to the Jewish political experience. By focusing on the most important contemporary Jewish political organizations in Germany and the United States, this study attempts to illuminate distinct patterns of Jewish politics from a decidedly transatlantic perspective and further discusses the suitability of the term for scholarly inquiry in political and social science. It argues that an accurate representation of American Jewish politics includes more than the discourse about an alleged “Israel lobby”; in addition, it offers a detailed account of the politics of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, one of the least studied – and perhaps least understood – organizations in German political life today.
- By (author) Sebastian Hoepfner
Other Titles in this Series
The Chutneyfication of History
Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje, Bharati Mukherjee and the Postcolonial Debate
Volume 95
Through the Bars of My Memory
Prison Life Writing and the Prison Movement of the 1970s and 1980s
Volume 319
Provincializing the United States
Colonialism, Decolonization, and (Post)Colonial Governance in Transnational Perspective
Volume 248
Toward a New Metropolitanism
Reconstituting Public Culture, Urban Citizenship, and the Multicultural Imaginery in New York and Berlin
Volume 142
Renegotiating American Nationalism
The Proxy War over Marriage Equality through the Lens of Un-Americanism
Volume 317
Physicians of Culture
Healing Catharsis in the Fiction of Toni Morrison and the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Volume 287
The Native American Declaration of Independence
William Apess's Reflections of Ethnic Consciousness
Volume 156
The Culture of Corporeality
Aesthetic Experience and the Embodiment of America, 1945-1960
Volume 151
Walking in the Wilderness
The Peripatetic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Painting
Volume 134
Similar Books
Beyond Sovereign Courts
Agents and Practices in Early Modern Spanish and Habsburg Diplomacy
Volume 3
Students, Scholars and Their Books at the University of Louvain (1425-1797)
Studium Lovaniense: Learning across Borders, 1
Volume 17
Unsilencing the Archives
New Approaches to the History of Archaeological Labor in the Mandate Period Middle East
Volume 80
Writing of Women as Cultural Resistance
Deconstructing Memory Legacies in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic
Credit Default Swap-Aktivismus
Eine ökonomische Analyse und rechtliche Bewertung der Einflussnahme von Credit Default Swap-Investoren auf Unternehmen
Indirekte Enteignung
Verfassungsunmittelbar gebotene Entschädigungspflicht im Spiegel des Mehrebenensystems
Sitten zwischen Moralphilosophie und Politischer Okonomie am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts
Mit einer zweisprachigen Edition von Ludwig Heinrich Jakobs Preisschrift Quelles sont les institutions les plus propres a fonder la morale d'un peuple
Wertebildung in der Schule
Struktur, Vermittlung, Entwicklungsdynamik - Herausforderungen und Ambivalenzen
A Companion to Political Leadership in Central and Eastern Europe after 1990
Democratization – Political Parties – Elections
Volume 3
Autocratic Rule in Antiquity
Proceedings of the 14th Melammu Workshop, Krakow, 46 October 2021
Volume 12
