Confronting the Nation: Jewish and Western Nationalism

232 Pages·1993·3.741 MB·English

by  George L. Mosse

Confronting the Nation

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George L. Mosse
Confronting
the N ation
Jewish and Western
Nationalism
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Mosse, George L. (George Lachmann), 1918-
Confronting the nation : Jewish and Western nationalism / George L.
Mosse.
p. cm. — (The Tauber Institute for the Study of European
Jewry series : 16)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87451-635—8. — ISBN 0-87451—636—6 (pbk.)
i. Nationalism—Philosophy, z. Fascism. 3. Jews—Germany—
Identity. 4. Zionism—Philosophy. 5. Germany—Ethnic relations.
I. Title. II. Series.
JC311.M666 1993
3 zo. 5 '4—dczo 93-17227
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For Yehoshua Arieli

Contents
Introduction: Confronting the Nation / i
The Nation Displays Itself
i. National Anthems: The Nation Militant / 13
2. National Self-Representation During the 1930s in Europe
and the United States / 27
3. Community in the Thought of Nationalism, Fascism,
and the Radical Right / 41
4. Political Style and Political Theory: Totalitarian
Democracy Revisited / 60
5. Fascism and the French Revolution / 70
6. The Political Culture of Italian Futurism / 91
7. Bookbuming and Betrayal by the German Intellectuals / 106
The Jews and the Modem Nation
8. The Jews and the Civic Religion of Nationalism / 121
. Jewish Emancipation: Between Bildung and Respectability / 131
10. German Jews and Liberalism in Retrospect / 146
11. Max Nordau: Liberalism and the New Jew / 161
12. Gershom Scholem as a German Jew / 176
Notes / 193
Acknowledgments / 213
Index / 215