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

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Buddhism and German-Jewish Orientalism -- Orientalism and the Jews -- The Prosthetic Function of Buddhism -- Permeable Boundaries: German, Jewish, Buddhist -- Chapter 3: The Buddha, the Rabbis, and the Philosophers: Reject...

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Main Author: Musch, Sebastian (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cham Springer International Publishing AG 2019
In:Year: 2019
Series/Journal:Palgrave Series in Asian German Studies
Further subjects:B Jews-Germany-Intellectual life-20th century
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Summary:Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Buddhism and German-Jewish Orientalism -- Orientalism and the Jews -- The Prosthetic Function of Buddhism -- Permeable Boundaries: German, Jewish, Buddhist -- Chapter 3: The Buddha, the Rabbis, and the Philosophers: Rejections and Defenses -- The Buddha-Jesus Literature -- Buddhism as the Religion of the Future -- Rabbinic Responses -- Philosophers and the Buddha: Franz Rosenzweig -- Martin Buber and Theodor Lessing -- Chapter 4: The Bridgebuilders: Jewishness Between Asia and Europe -- Paul Cohen-Portheim: A Mission Between East and West -- Feuchtwanger and the Jewish Way of Renunciation -- Excursus on Friedrich Schlegel's Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier -- Jud Süß-Feuchtwanger's Buddhist Bestseller -- Jakob Wassermann and the Quest for Justice -- Walter Hasenclever: A Buddhist Prophet in Dire Times -- Chapter 5: The Assimilation and Dissimilation of a Buddhist Jew: Walter Tausk's Contested Identities -- Lessons from the War -- The 1920s: Tausk Between Assimilation and Dissimilation -- Methodological Interlude: Contradictions in Everyday Life -- Tausk on Antisemitism and the Ostjuden -- A Jewish Buddhist in the Third Reich -- In Lieu of a Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Conclusion: Toward the Study of Jewish-Buddhist Relations -- Bibliography -- I. Archival Material -- II. Primary and Secondary Literature: -- Index.
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ISBN:3030274691