Jewish Encounters with Buddhism in German Culture: Between Moses and Buddha, 1890–1940

1. Introduction -- 2. Buddhism and German-Jewish Orientalism -- 3. The Buddha, the Rabbis, and the Philosophers: Rejections and Defenses -- 4. The Bridgebuilders: Jewishness between Asia and Europe -- 5. The Assimilation and Dissimilation of a Jewish Buddhist: Walter Tausk's Contested Identitie...

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主要作者: Musch, Sebastian (Author)
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语言:English
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出版: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2019
In:Year: 2019
版:1st ed. 2019
丛编:Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies
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Further subjects:B Europe, Central—History
B World history
B History of Germany and Central Europe
B Intellectual life—History
B Judaism and culture
B Religions
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总结:1. Introduction -- 2. Buddhism and German-Jewish Orientalism -- 3. The Buddha, the Rabbis, and the Philosophers: Rejections and Defenses -- 4. The Bridgebuilders: Jewishness between Asia and Europe -- 5. The Assimilation and Dissimilation of a Jewish Buddhist: Walter Tausk's Contested Identities -- 6. Conclusion: Towards a Study of Jewish-Buddhist Relations
In Germany at the turn of the century, Buddhism transformed from an obscure topic, of interest to only a few misfit scholars, into a cultural phenomenon. Many of the foremost authors of the period were profoundly influenced by this rapid rise of Buddhism—among them, some of the best-known names in the German-Jewish canon. Sebastian Musch excavates this neglected dimension of German-Jewish identity, drawing on philosophical treatises, novels, essays, diaries, and letters to trace the history of Jewish-Buddhist encounters up to the start of the Second World War. Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Leo Baeck, Theodor Lessing, Jakob Wassermann, Walter Hasenclever, and Lion Feuchtwanger are featured alongside other, lesser known figures like Paul Cohen-Portheim and Walter Tausk. As Musch shows, when these thinkers wrote about Buddhism, they were also negotiating their own Jewishness
ISBN:3030274691
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-27469-6