Contents
Preface
Introducing the Problem
The Cosmopolitanist Debates
The Jew in Contemporary Theories of Cosmopolitanism
Nomads, Gypsies, Jews
Jews and the Nation-State
The Enlightenment Imagines Cosmopolitan Jews
Writers in Coaches
Jews Writing Their Own Cosmopolitanism
From Vienna to Berlin and Beyond
Vienna, Zionism, and Cosmopolitanism
Prague: On the Fringes of Empire
Berlin: Another Empire
After the Deluge
Stefan Zweig: The Model European
Joseph Roth’s Hotel Patriotism
Lion Feuchtwanger: The Empire Strikes Back
Cosmopolitanism Tottering on the Brink of Catastrophe
The Revolution of 1933
Thomas Mann and Egypt
Joseph in Sigmund Freud’s Egypt
Heidegger’s Rootless Jew
Zweig’s Erasmus in Exile: The Cosmopolitan par Excellence
Roth and Zweig: Idealizing the Austro-Hungarian Empire
Zweig’s Brazil: The Farthest Exile
Lion Feuchtwanger’s History in Exile, the Josephus Trilogy
The Left in World War II and Thereafter
Communism, National Socialism, and the Jews
Writing the Stalinist Purges: Alice Rühle-Gerstel, Arthur Koestler, and Manès Sperber
The Left and the Stalinist Purges after 1945: Rudolf Leonhard, Peter Weiss, and Stefan Heym
Rooted German Cosmopolitans?
In Germany, Gogol Is Not Sholem Aleichem
In America, Nabokov Really Is Not Sholem Aleichem
8. Walls and Borders: Toward a Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index