Typology and the Holocaust
Erich Auerbach and Judeo-Christian Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8045772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Malachi Haim Hacohen (Duke University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 600-645 |
| Publication date | 2012-07-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel3030600 |
| OpenAlex | W2094126597 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 73 |
In response to Nazi exclusion of the Jews from German society on racial grounds, Erich Auerbach (1892–1957), a secular Jewish intellectual inspired by cultural Protestantism and Catholicism, formed a vision of a cosmopolitan Judeo-Christian civilization that reintegrated the Jews as biblical founders and cultural mediators. But the integration expunged any mark of traditional Jewishness. Focusing on Christian figurative thinking (typology), Auerbach viewed the binding of Isaac through the crucifixion, and contemporary Jews as civilization’s (unwilling and undeserving) martyrs. In the aftermath of the Holocaust, his cosmopolitanism reached a crisis, reflected in his postwar vision of Western decline. The progressive mandarin who had begun his intellectual life elevating Dante’s care for everyday life and sympathizing with French realist social critique ended endorsing Hugh of St. Victor’s alienation from reality and Pascal’s acquiescence in totalitarian rule
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Dohm's Treatise on the Jews
A Nationalism of Small Things
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Modern Judaism and Historical Consciousness
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East West Mimesis
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Österreichische Freimaurer im Nationalsozialismus
Die Verwandlung der Welt
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Central European Ethnonationalism and Zionist Binationalism
The City of Man, European Émigrés, and the Genesis of Postwar Conservative Thought
"Mimesis" and Erich Auerbach's Self-Mythologizing
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Transnational Mobilization and Cultural Representation
The Copenhagen School
Threads Intertwined
Karl Popper in Exile
Coping with Christian Pictorial Sources
Dilemmas of Cosmopolitanism
Freud, Marriage, and Late Viennese Liberalism
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The Cult of the Saints in Lurianic Kabbalah
Revelation at Sinai in the Hebrew Bible and in Jewish Theology
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The Talmud on Trial
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The Jerusalem School
Figuring (out) Esau
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2019 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |