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Cambridge University Press 978-1-316-51037-7 — Jacob & Esau Malachi Haim Hacohen Index More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-316-51037-7 — Jacob & Esau Malachi Haim Hacohen Index More Information Index 45ers, 542–43 345–46, 381–82, 399. See also German 58ers, 542–43, 571, 576 Jews, acculturated 68ers, 540, 541–42, 569, 573–75, 577–78, 582, Hasidic hostility toward, 259 ˙ 592–93 Jacob & Esau and, 218–19 Holocaust and, 576–78 Mannheimer on, 234–35 Jewish, 577–78, 579 maskilim and, 257 Jewish émigrés and, 542–45, 570, 571–73, 574, traditional Jews and, 290 575–76, 578–79, 580, 581, 582–83 Achaemenid Period, 64 new Jewish intelligentsia and, 577–79, 581 Achleitner, Friedrich, 553 Zionism and, 541, 577 Ackermann, Manfred, 342 Action Française, 362–63, 379–80 Abbey of St. Victor, Paris, 112–13 Adam, 120–22, 124, 172–73 Abendland, 362–63, 555–56, 564–65 Adam–Jacob homily, 120–21 Abendroth, Friedrich, 551–52 as figurehead for Jacob and Israel, 120–21 – – Zadoq Hacohen of Lublin and, 258 Abraham, 70, 95, 96 97, 194 95, 239, 243, 267, ˙ 274–75, 400, 403, 465 Adam ha-Qadmon (Primal Man), 147–48, 149–50 Beer-Hofmann and, 444–45 Adat Jeschurun, 262, 270–71 Beerman and, 401 Adler, Emil, 201 Benno Jacob and, 416–17 Adler, Friedrich (Fritz), 312–13, 330–31, 336–37, Chajes and, 402 338–39, 343 Christian–Jewish dialogue and, 587 Adler, Kathia (Katja Germanickaja), 330–31 Christian–Muslim dialogue and, 587 Adler, Max, 336–37, 571 Christian typology and, 587 Adler, Nathan, 211 in Hebrew literature, 598 Adler, Victor, 287, 291, 298–99, 312–13, 330–31, in Jesuit catechism, 242–43 336–37 Manger and, 431 Adorno, Theodor, 2–3, 553, 571–72, 573 Maybaum and, 396–97, 398–99, 400 Adrastea, 197, 198–99 as Patriarch, 401 Agnon, Shmuel Yosef, 368–69 in Reform textbooks, 229 A Guest for the Night, 434 Shalev and, 601, 602 Diaspora and, 434–35 Tamuz and, 595–97 Agudah. See Agudat Yisrael Zadoq Hacohen of Lublin and, 258 Agudat Yisrael, 271, 311, 409, 469–70, 472–73 ˙ in Zohar, 121–22 Agudat Yisrael World Organization, 308–9 Abramovich, Sholem Yankev, 426–27. See also World Congress of Agudat Yisrael, 475–76 Mendele Mohker-Sforim Ahasuerus (wandering Jew), 392 Abravanel, Isaac, 91–92, 100–101, 103, 105–6, Ahasuerus, King, 204–5, 275 116, 133–36, 144–45, 157–58, 225–26 Aichinger, Ilse, 553, 577–78, 579–80 Mashmia Yeshuah, 133–34 Aktion group, 574 Abulafia, Anna, 112 Aktionist performance, 573–74 acculturation, 168–69, 193, 201–2, 205, 217, Al-Andalus. See Spain – – – al-Tabar¯,ı Abū Ja‘far Muhammad ibn Jar¯r,ı 102 230 31, 234, 237, 253, 254 55, 256 57, ˙ 269, 274–75, 315–16, 336, 422, 426–27 Albo, Joseph, 100–101, 103 antisemitism and, 215 Alef (kabbalistic), 180–81, 182–83 German-Jewish, 197–98, 216–17, 223, 224, Alexander II, Tsar, 280 255, 256–58, 277, 288, 290, 298, Alexander the Great, 324, 326 300–301, 304, 306, 307, 335–36, 343–44, Alfonso X, 126 691 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-316-51037-7 — Jacob & Esau Malachi Haim Hacohen Index More Information 692 Index alldeutsch, 337–38, 345 Zionism and, 599 allegory, 88–89, 110, 179, 217, 490–91, 505–6 antisemitism, 10, 43, 126, 191, 197–98, 260, Alliance Israélite Universelle, 279 279–80, 281, 316–17, 330, 346, 353, Almohads, 99, 103 378–79, 380, 381–82, 391, 394, 396, Almohad Spain. See Spain, Al-Andalus 400–401, 424, 509, 575, 612–13 Alon, Eli, 599 Adler and, 330–31 “Esau My Son, My Might and the First Sign of assimilation and, 215, 328–29, 382 My Strength,” 599 Association for Defense against, 381–82 Alsatian Jews, 166 Auerbach and, 521 Alter, Yehudah Leib (Sefat Emet), 258–60, 470 in Austria, 283–84, 289–96 Sefer Sefat Emet, 258–60, 470 Catholicism and, 243–44, 289–96, 300–1, 348 Altmann, Alexander, 166 Chajes on, 402–3 altpreussische Loge, 360 Christian Social Party and, 292–96, 348 Amaleq, 52–53, 76, 104, 256, 257–58, 271–72, citizenship and, 382 274, 422, 424, 439–40, 456, 520–21, 607, Cohen’s response to, 405 608, 612 convergence of religious and racial, 379–80 Arabs and, 590–91 French vs. German, 379–80 Edom and, 424–25 German-Jewish identity and, 393 Esau and, 18–19, 424–25 in Germany, 281, 284–85 as God’s agent, 471–72 Gronemann’s parody of, 454–56 Holocaust and, 424–25, 469–74, 588–89 Gunkel and, 388 Jellinek on, 275, 276–77 Herder and, 197, 200–2 Jelski and, 412 Hildebrand and, 354–55 as Jewish, 470, 471 in Hungary, 280 Kingdom of, 18–19, 472–73 imperial politics and, 303–4 Orthodox Judaism and, 424–25, 469–74 Jacob & Esau and, 423, 424, 450, 451 Ambrose, St., 88–89 Jellinek and, 273–74, 275–76 “Americanization,” 529, 543, 555–56 Jewish emancipation and, 198–99, 279, Amerika Haus, 571 280–81, 375–420 Améry, Jean, 577 Jewish literature and, 425–26 Amichai, Yehuda, 443 Jewish stereotypes and, 400 “Jacob and the Angel,” 597 liberal Protestantism and, 381–82, 390–91 Amir, Aharon, 599 Mann and, 459–60, 467 “Esau’s Epistle,” 599 Maybaum and, 398 Amir-Pinkerfeld, Anda, 425–26, 433, in medieval Europe, 133 438–39, 599 myth of Jewish moneylender and, 115 Jacob & Esau and, 439 nationalism and, 189, 192–93, 280–81, Anders, Günther, 542, 543, 571 295–96, 316–17, 508–9 Andics, Hellmut, 574 National Socialism and, 450–51, 471 Andrian, Leopold von, 364–65 in Poland, 294–95, 307, 421 Anglo-Saxon Hexateuch, 158 Popper and, 328–29 Anschluss, 289, 333–34, 337, 339, 343, 344–45, racial, 279–81, 283–85, 304, 351–52, 397, 424 346, 347, 360, 363, 557, 558–59 rise of in 1880s, 283–84, 291 Anselm of Laon, 107–8 in Schafer, 457 anti-Americanism, 527, 581 scientific, 379–80 anti-Catholicism, 191, 243–44, 252–53, 293, socialism and, 295, 343, 373 352, 378 in Spain, 133 anticlericalism, 192–93, 300–301, 315–16, 379 Ständestaat and, 353 anticommunism, 529, 543, 550–51, 555–56, 581, Torberg and, 560–61 582–83 in the United States, 591–92, antifascist struggle, 344 613 anti-imperialism, 281, 293, 543, 611 Zionism and, 309–10 anti-Jewish legislation, 471 anti-Zionism, 541, 588–89 antinationalism Anton, Carl, 176 conservative, 287 Antoninus, 144–45 progressive, 308 Apocrypha, 64, 69–70 Antipater, 65 Apollo, 458–59 Antisemitic League of France, 379–80 apostasy, 86, 139, 173, 182, 195, 220–21, 369, antisemitic stereotypes 480. See also minim, minut Becker and, 594 Apostles, 128, 130 Herder and, 207 Aqedah, 229, 387, 419, 444–45, 472–73, 515–16, pedagogy and, 594–95 520–21, 584–85, 596–97, 598 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-316-51037-7 — Jacob & Esau Malachi Haim Hacohen Index More Information Index 693 Aqiva, Rabbi, 66–67, 72, 149–50, 257, 614 Atiqa, Atiqa Qadisha, 124, 172–73, 174–75 Aquinas, Thomas, 118, 132 Auden, W. H., 553 Arabic, Jewish knowledge of, 112 Auerbach, Clemens, 486, 498–99, 521–22, Arab–Jewish conflict, 287–88, 328, 586–87, 606, 524–25 607, 611. See also Israeli–Palestinian conflict Auerbach, Erich, 4, 6–7, 12, 400, 494, 510, 511. Christian–Jewish relations and, 612 See also Auerbach, Erich, works of Greenberg and, 436, 438–39 Augustine and, 501–2, 504, 510 Ishmael and, 587 Benjamin and, 499–500 Jacob & Esau typology and, 585–87, 589, biography of, 485–86, 495–510, 512, 521–22, 590–92 523, 524–25, 526, 527–28, 532, 533, Orthodox Jews and, 603–4 534–35 Shalev and, 602, 603 Catholicism and, 503–4, 510, 528 Ultra-Orthodox Jews and, 590–91 Christianity and, 483–539 Arabs, 590–91. See also Arab–Jewish conflict; Christian realism and, 512–13, 514–15, Palestinians 519–21 Arendt, Hannah, 4, 201, 305–6, 373–74, 484, cosmopolitanism and, 484, 494, 508, 510, 511, 536–37, 540, 541, 542, 543, 553, 512, 514–15, 521–32, 534, 536–37 571–72, 582 critique of German culture, 514 Ariel, Yaakov, 249–50, 587 as cultural Christian, 484, 503–4, 510, 520–21, Arikh Anpin, 148, 172–73, 474 531–32, 537 Aristotle, 491 Curtius and, 492–93 Arp, Hans, 446 Dante and, 485–86, 489–90, 493–94, 501, 502, Artmann, H. C., 553, 573 503, 504, 506, 510, 511, 512–13, 519–21, Ascher, Saul, 168–69, 190–91 525, 531–32, 533, 537, 539 Aschner, Ilse Maria, 577–78 Europeanness and, 484, 485–95, 507, 510, 511, Asenath, 468–69 515–16, 520–23, 526, 527, 529–30, 531, Ashkenazi Jews, 18–19, 101–2, 112–13, 143, 208, 536–39 216–17, 224. See also Eastern European figura and. See typology and Jews French literature and, 494–95, 514–15 Ashkenazi Jewish identity, 208 Germanness and, 492, 514–15, 521–32 assimilation and, 380 Goethe and, 513–14 commentators, 16–17, 18–19, 91–92, 103, Holocaust and, 496, 510–21, 524–25 112–13, 129, 143 humanism and, 492, 513–15, 528, 529, rabbis, 212 530, 537 unified identity of, 195–96 Jewish European History and, 484, 538–39 “vengeful redemption,” 104 Jewishness and, 484, 485–532, 535–36, Asiatic Brothers of St. John the Evangelist, 170, 537, 538 177, 183. See also Freemasons liberalism and, 490, 523–24 assimilation, 49, 193, 200–201, 215, 235, 289–90, liberal Protestantism and, 486–87, 503–4, 507, 297, 298, 309–10, 315–16, 381, 394, 396, 510, 517 412–13, 469–70, 471, 575 modernism and, 493, 511, 512, 513–15, 531, antisemitism and, 328–29, 382 534–35, 537 Auerbach and, 524–25, 537, 538 modernity and, 492–93, 503–4, 507–8, 510, as conversion, 193–94 512–15, 523–24, 527–28, 529, 535–36 Eastern European Jews and, 380, 382 National Socialism and, 484, 490, 492, 494–95, German Jews and, 234–35, 382 509–10, 512, 528 Jewish emancipation and, 378 New Testament and, 518, 519 Jewish liberalism and, 402–3 Old Testament and, 507–8, 516, 517–18, liberals and, 381–82 519 Popper on, 327, 328–29 Pascal and, 504, 531–32 Sephardic Jews and, 380 pluralism and, 488, 527–28, 529–30 traditional Jews and, 400, 588–89 postcolonial studies and, 535–36 Zionism and, 413–14 postwar reception, of, 512, 521, 528, 529, 531, Association for Defense against Antisemitism, 533, 534–35, 536–37 381–82 postwar reflections, 487–89, 496–97, 503–4, Association for the Culture and Science of the 520–32 Jews, 225, 226, 228.
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