Rootless cosmopolitans: German-Jewish writers confront the Stalinist and National Socialist atrocities
Rootless cosmopolitans: German-Jewish writers confront the Stalinist and National Socialist atrocities
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无根的世界主义者:德国犹太作家直面斯大林主义和国家社会主义的暴行
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10.1080/13507486.2016.1203882
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2016
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Gelbin C
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Gelbin C
This article examines the impact of the Stalinist persecutions of Jews as ‘rootless cosmopolitans’ on the Jewish involvement with leftist ideas. In inter-war Germany and Austria, Jewish intellectuals played a disproportionate role in promoting both cosmopolitanist and leftist ideals. While belonging mostly to the bourgeois spectrum, many harboured close sympathies with the young Soviet Union, whose imperative of Communist internationalism seemed to chime closely with their own cosmopolitanist sentiments. This dream was shattered in the Stalinist purges of the 1930s and 1950s in particular, when Jews were persecuted as ‘rootless cosmopolitans’. The author studies the novels by three German-speaking Jewish writers, Alice Rühle-Gerstel’sThe Break, Arthur Koestler’sDarkness at Noonand Manès Sperber’sLike a Tear in the Ocean, which were written in close proximity to the Stalinist crimes. She argues that these novels offer a unique insight into the seemingly impossible schism that leftist Jews faced in confronting the Stalinist crimes. In doing so, these novels enable us to trace the Jewish leftist predicament that both sustained the socialist–Communist project and ultimately called for its critical interrogation.
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