The possibilities and pitfalls of a Jewish cosmopolitanism: reading Natan Sznaider through Russian-Jewish writer Olga Grjasnowa's German-language novel Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt (All Russians Love Birch Trees)
The possibilities and pitfalls of a Jewish cosmopolitanism: reading Natan Sznaider through Russian-Jewish writer Olga Grjasnowa's German-language novel Der Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt (All Russians Love Birch Trees)
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犹太世界主义的可能性和陷阱：通过俄罗斯犹太作家奥尔加·格贾斯诺娃的德语小说《所有俄罗斯人都爱白桦树》来解读纳坦·施奈德
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10.1080/13507486.2016.1203872
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2016
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In hisJewish Memory and the Cosmopolitan Order(2011), Natan Sznaider shows how Jewish thinkers both before and after the Holocaust have advanced universalist ideas out of their particularist Jewish identities, connecting the Jewish experience to contemporary cosmopolitan concerns such as Human Rights, genocide prevention and international justice. Sznaider focuses on Hannah Arendt and illustrates how this post-Holocaust Jewish thinker both defended her rootedness in her Jewish identity and drew universalising conclusions from it. This article explores Sznaider’s notion of a ‘Jewish cosmopolitanism’ in tandem with a close reading of Russian-Jewish writer Olga Grjasnowa’s German-language novelDer Russe ist einer, der Birken liebt(All Russians Love Birch Trees). The empathy Grjasnowa’s protagonist feels for the plight of Palestinians reveals her commitment to a universalist ideal of Human Rights even as she remains rooted in her Jewish identity: her activism draws on the transmission of the trauma of the Holocaust down through the different generations of her family. At the same time, Grjasnowa’s novel also suggests some of the limitations – and indeed problems – of Sznaider’s conceptualisation of a Jewish cosmopolitanism.
