At the Edges of Liberalism: Junctions of European, German, by S. Aschheim

By S. Aschheim

The essays during this quantity search to confront a number of the charged assembly issues of ecu - specifically German - and Jewish historical past. All, in a single manner or one other, discover the entanglements, the intertwined moments of empathy and enmity, belonging and estrangement, creativity and destructiveness that happened at those junctions.

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