Amir Engel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amir Engel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amir |
| FAMILY NAME | Engel |
| SIGNATURE | ENGEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3150-6357 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jewish–Christian Religiosity: A Study in Twentieth-Century Central European History
The article explores the interaction of the German, Jewish, and Christian traditions in the first part of the twentieth century in Central Europe to show three cases, in which these traditions merge into one. I name the result of this interaction “Jewish–Christian religiosity.” The name conveys a desire, common to the cases discussed, to overcome the traditional distinctions between Jews and Germans and Jews and Christians. It also conveys the be…
From the Neue Gemeinschaft to Bar Kochba: The Jewish Communitas or the Idea of Jewish Politics as Mysticism
This essay uses both published and archival material to reconstruct the ideological and social contexts of Martin Buber's 1909 address "Judaism and the Jews". It suggests that Buber's address became immensely influential because it equated mysticism and politics into one metaphor. Secondly, it shows that Buber imported this idea from debates and discussions that took place almost a decade earlier in Berlin, among the bohemian circle known as the …
‘Jugendbewegung’: Gerhard Scholem as a Figure of the German Avant-Garde
The purpose of this essay is to examine one of Gershom Scholem’s most obscure undertakings, a proto-Dadaist and antiwar text that he published, together with a few friends, during the first year of World War One. As is shown, this project has drawn heavily from the work of one of the leading avant-garde poets, later among the founding members of the Dada movement in Zurich, Hugo Ball. Discussed side by side, the works of Gershom Scholem and Hugo …
Between Consequential Memory and Destruction: Karl Jaspers, Jean Améry, and the Intellectual History of Postwar West Germany
This article reconstructs two "modes of memory" in postwar West Germany and explores an underappreciated historical trajectory. These two modes offer radically different ideas about why Germany should remember its past. In the immediate aftermath of the war, Karl Jaspers called on Germany's citizens to remember the atrocities of the Nazi past so they could open a new chapter in the nation's history. Twenty years later, at the zenith of the econom…
Reading Gershom Scholem in Context: Salomon Maimon's and Gershom Scholem's German Jewish Discourse on Jewish Mysticism
This article offers a critical reading of Gershom Scholem's memoir, From Berlin to Jerusalem, by contrasting it with the memoir of another German Jewish intellectual, Salomon Maimon. Ostensibly, these two memoirs tell opposite stories. Maimon (1753–1800) grew up in an orthodox environment in a decrepit Jewish town in eastern Europe but left it behind to travel to Berlin and dedicate his life to philosophy in the tradition of the German enlightenm…
Between Consequential Memory and Destruction: Karl Jaspers, Jean Améry, and the Intellectual History of Postwar West Germany
This article reconstructs two "modes of memory" in postwar West Germany and explores an underappreciated historical trajectory. These two modes offer radically different ideas about why Germany should remember its past. In the immediate aftermath of the war, Karl Jaspers called on Germany's citizens to remember the atrocities of the Nazi past so they could open a new chapter in the nation's history. Twenty years later, at the zenith of the econom…
Reading Gershom Scholem in Context: Salomon Maimon's and Gershom Scholem's German Jewish Discourse on Jewish Mysticism
This article offers a critical reading of Gershom Scholem's memoir, From Berlin to Jerusalem, by contrasting it with the memoir of another German Jewish intellectual, Salomon Maimon. Ostensibly, these two memoirs tell opposite stories. Maimon (1753–1800) grew up in an orthodox environment in a decrepit Jewish town in eastern Europe but left it behind to travel to Berlin and dedicate his life to philosophy in the tradition of the German enlightenm…
Between Consequential Memory and Destruction: Karl Jaspers, Jean Améry, and the Intellectual History of Postwar West Germany
This article reconstructs two "modes of memory" in postwar West Germany and explores an underappreciated historical trajectory. These two modes offer radically different ideas about why Germany should remember its past. In the immediate aftermath of the war, Karl Jaspers called on Germany's citizens to remember the atrocities of the Nazi past so they could open a new chapter in the nation's history. Twenty years later, at the zenith of the econom…
‘Jugendbewegung’: Gerhard Scholem as a Figure of the German Avant-Garde
The purpose of this essay is to examine one of Gershom Scholem’s most obscure undertakings, a proto-Dadaist and antiwar text that he published, together with a few friends, during the first year of World War One. As is shown, this project has drawn heavily from the work of one of the leading avant-garde poets, later among the founding members of the Dada movement in Zurich, Hugo Ball. Discussed side by side, the works of Gershom Scholem and Hugo …
Jewish–Christian Religiosity: A Study in Twentieth-Century Central European History
The article explores the interaction of the German, Jewish, and Christian traditions in the first part of the twentieth century in Central Europe to show three cases, in which these traditions merge into one. I name the result of this interaction “Jewish–Christian religiosity.” The name conveys a desire, common to the cases discussed, to overcome the traditional distinctions between Jews and Germans and Jews and Christians. It also conveys the be…
From the Neue Gemeinschaft to Bar Kochba: The Jewish Communitas or the Idea of Jewish Politics as Mysticism
This essay uses both published and archival material to reconstruct the ideological and social contexts of Martin Buber's 1909 address "Judaism and the Jews". It suggests that Buber's address became immensely influential because it equated mysticism and politics into one metaphor. Secondly, it shows that Buber imported this idea from debates and discussions that took place almost a decade earlier in Berlin, among the bohemian circle known as the …
History (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · German (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Law (2 works)