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Ah yes, the Jew­ish Question…

JBC Staff
May 14, 2010

Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

Last week’s NYTimes Book Review sec­tion exam­ined the ​“Jew­ish Ques­tion” in the fol­low­ing works:

  • The Jew­ish Ques­tion: British Anti-Semi­tism, which looks at Tri­als of the Dias­po­ra: A His­to­ry of Anti-Semi­tism in Eng­land (Antho­ny Julius) And…Levi Asher’s response to the review on Jew​cy​.com here.
  • The Jew­ish Ques­tion: Mar­tin Hei­deg­ger, which looks at Hei­deg­ger: The Intro­duc­tion of Nazism into Phi­los­o­phy in Light of the Unpub­lished Sem­i­nars of 1933 – 1935 (Emmanuel Faye) and Stranger from Abroad: Han­nah Arendt, Mar­tin Hei­deg­ger, Friend­ship and For­give­ness (Daniel Maier-Katkin)
  • Niet­zsche: A Phi­los­o­phy in Con­text, which looks at Friedrich Niet­zsche: A Philo­soph­i­cal Biog­ra­phy (Julian Young)
  • The Némirovsky Para­dox, which looks at The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903 – 1942 ( Olivi­er Philip­pon­nat and Patrick Lien­hardt) and Dimanche and Oth­er Sto­ries  (Irène Némirovsky)
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