Abraham Rubin
Biographic Data
| ID | 3958540 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abraham Rubin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abraham |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubin |
| SIGNATURE | RUBIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The National Smelting Company, Cleveland, Ohio |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7347-5782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography
This book explores the fraught relationship between religion, politics, and Holocaust memory from an autobiographical perspective
Idit Alphandary. Forgiveness and Resentment in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Jewish Voices in Literature and Film. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024
Idit Alphandary's new book is a study of the relationship between affect and memory, trauma and testimony.It explores literary, cinematic and philosophical efforts to pave new paths of political reconciliation and restoration in the wake of collective trauma and mass atrocity.Encompassing a dizzying array of writers, filmmakers, and thinkers, the study demonstrates how the work of memory unfolds through a dialectical process involving the suppose…
Scripture, Sovereignty and National Self-Determination in Martin Buber’s Bein Am Le’Artzo (1944)
This paper investigates Buber’s understanding of the relationship between the Jewish people and the Promised Land as it emerges from his biblical commentaries of the 1940s. It argues that Buber’s exegetical writings from the period should be read as an extension of his political pronouncements on Zionism, complementing his binational vision of Arab-Jewish coexistence in Palestine. Focusing on Buber’s 1944 lectures published under the title Bein A…
Hugo Hamid Marcus (1880-1966): The Muslim Convert as German Jew
Dr. Hugo Marcus was a German Jewish convert to Islam who played a prominent role in the cultural and intellectual life of the Ahmadi community that thrived in interwar Berlin. From the 1920s to the 1950s, Marcus published numerous essays devoted to the philosophical explication of Islam in light of German Enlightenment thinkers such as Kant, Goethe, and Lessing. Although Marcus rarely, if ever, alluded to his Jewish origins, this study contends t…
Jewish Self-Affirmation out of the Sources of Christian Supersessionism: Margarete Susman's The Book of Job and the Fate of the Jewish People
This article reconstructs the Christian-theological underpinnings of Margarete Susman's 1946 Holocaust theodicy, Das Buch Hiob und das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes. It begins with an analysis of Susman's critique of Zionism and the exilic ideal she posits as its antithesis. It then demonstrates Das Buch Hiob's unsettling affinities to a religious doctrine called the »witness-people myth,« according to which the Jews' persecution and degradation…
Muhammad Asad's Conversion to Islam as a Case Study in Jewish Self-Orientalization
After resigning from his diplomatic position as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations in the early 1950s, Muhammad Asad devoted himself to writing his autobiography. Published to much acclaim in 1954, The Road to Mecca told the story of a Galician Jew named Leopold Weiss who had rejected his European Jewish heritage by converting to Islam and immersing himself in the Orient. Despite the author’s emphatic disavowal of his Jewish roots, this …
The "German-Jewish Dialogue" and its Literary Refractions: The Case of Margarete Susman and Gershom Scholem
“What have I in common with Jews?” muses Kafka in a diary entry from January 1914. “I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.”1 Despite Kafka’s ambivalence, many of his early Jewish readers believed his writing bore a distinctly Jewish testimony. Beginning with Max Brod, Kafka’s first biographer and the executor of his literary estate, German-Jewish critics have made imagin…
The Concept of Repentance among the Ḥasidey' Ashkenaz
An Industrial Experiment
THAT perennial traveler-the visitor from Mars-would find this issue of THE ANNALS doubly anomalous. He would wonder how democracy can harbor group prejudice, and why we are concerned with controlling and not with eliminating it. Since the Martians are bluntly logical rather than subtly eschatological in their approach to such problems, it would be rather difficult for our visitor to acquiesce in the need for a gradual lessening of the causes of f…
Muhammad Asad's Conversion to Islam as a Case Study in Jewish Self-Orientalization
After resigning from his diplomatic position as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations in the early 1950s, Muhammad Asad devoted himself to writing his autobiography. Published to much acclaim in 1954, The Road to Mecca told the story of a Galician Jew named Leopold Weiss who had rejected his European Jewish heritage by converting to Islam and immersing himself in the Orient. Despite the author’s emphatic disavowal of his Jewish roots, this …
The Concept of Repentance among the Ḥasidey' Ashkenaz
An Industrial Experiment
THAT perennial traveler-the visitor from Mars-would find this issue of THE ANNALS doubly anomalous. He would wonder how democracy can harbor group prejudice, and why we are concerned with controlling and not with eliminating it. Since the Martians are bluntly logical rather than subtly eschatological in their approach to such problems, it would be rather difficult for our visitor to acquiesce in the need for a gradual lessening of the causes of f…
The Concept of Repentance among the Ḥasidey' Ashkenaz
The "German-Jewish Dialogue" and its Literary Refractions: The Case of Margarete Susman and Gershom Scholem
“What have I in common with Jews?” muses Kafka in a diary entry from January 1914. “I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.”1 Despite Kafka’s ambivalence, many of his early Jewish readers believed his writing bore a distinctly Jewish testimony. Beginning with Max Brod, Kafka’s first biographer and the executor of his literary estate, German-Jewish critics have made imagin…
Muhammad Asad's Conversion to Islam as a Case Study in Jewish Self-Orientalization
After resigning from his diplomatic position as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations in the early 1950s, Muhammad Asad devoted himself to writing his autobiography. Published to much acclaim in 1954, The Road to Mecca told the story of a Galician Jew named Leopold Weiss who had rejected his European Jewish heritage by converting to Islam and immersing himself in the Orient. Despite the author’s emphatic disavowal of his Jewish roots, this …
Jewish Self-Affirmation out of the Sources of Christian Supersessionism: Margarete Susman's The Book of Job and the Fate of the Jewish People
This article reconstructs the Christian-theological underpinnings of Margarete Susman's 1946 Holocaust theodicy, Das Buch Hiob und das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes. It begins with an analysis of Susman's critique of Zionism and the exilic ideal she posits as its antithesis. It then demonstrates Das Buch Hiob's unsettling affinities to a religious doctrine called the »witness-people myth,« according to which the Jews' persecution and degradation…
Hugo Hamid Marcus (1880-1966): The Muslim Convert as German Jew
Dr. Hugo Marcus was a German Jewish convert to Islam who played a prominent role in the cultural and intellectual life of the Ahmadi community that thrived in interwar Berlin. From the 1920s to the 1950s, Marcus published numerous essays devoted to the philosophical explication of Islam in light of German Enlightenment thinkers such as Kant, Goethe, and Lessing. Although Marcus rarely, if ever, alluded to his Jewish origins, this study contends t…
Scripture, Sovereignty and National Self-Determination in Martin Buber’s Bein Am Le’Artzo (1944)
This paper investigates Buber’s understanding of the relationship between the Jewish people and the Promised Land as it emerges from his biblical commentaries of the 1940s. It argues that Buber’s exegetical writings from the period should be read as an extension of his political pronouncements on Zionism, complementing his binational vision of Arab-Jewish coexistence in Palestine. Focusing on Buber’s 1944 lectures published under the title Bein A…
Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Émigré Autobiography
This book explores the fraught relationship between religion, politics, and Holocaust memory from an autobiographical perspective
Idit Alphandary. Forgiveness and Resentment in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity: Jewish Voices in Literature and Film. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024
Idit Alphandary's new book is a study of the relationship between affect and memory, trauma and testimony.It explores literary, cinematic and philosophical efforts to pave new paths of political reconciliation and restoration in the wake of collective trauma and mass atrocity.Encompassing a dizzying array of writers, filmmakers, and thinkers, the study demonstrates how the work of memory unfolds through a dialectical process involving the suppose…
Judaism (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)