Table of Contents
Preface vii
1 How Did We Get Here from There? 1
Introducing the Problem 1
The Cosmopolitanist Debates 9
The Jew in Contemporary Theories of Cosmopolitanism 12
Nomads, Gypsies, Jews 17
Jews and the Nation-State 28
2 Moving About; Cosmopolitanism from Jews in Coaches to Jews on Trains 31
The Enlightenment Imagines Cosmopolitan Jews 31
Writers in Coaches 42
Jews Writing Their Own Cosmopolitanism 61
3 "Everyone Is Welcome": The Contradictions of Cosmopolitanism in the Imperial Worlds of Austro-Hungarian and Wilhelmine Jewry 69
From Vienna to Berlin and Beyond 69
Vienna, Zionism, and Cosmopolitanism 73
Prague: On the Fringes of Empire 91
Berlin: Another Empire 100
4 Jewish Cosmopolitanism and the European Idea, 1918-1933 113
After the Deluge 113
Stefan Zweig: The Model European 120
Joseph Roth's Hotel Patriotism 127
Lion Feuchtwanger: The Empire Strikes Back 137
Cosmopolitanism Tottering on the Brink of Catastrophe 142
5 "The World Will Be Your Home": Cosmopolitanism under National Socialism and in Exile 144
The Revolution of 1933 144
Thomas Mann and Egypt 145
Joseph in Sigmund Freud's Egypt 159
Heidegger's Rootless Jew 162
Zweig's Erasmus in Exile: The Cosmopolitan par Excellence 165
Roth and Zweig: Idealizing the Austro-Hungarian Empire 170
Zweig's Brazil: The Farthest Exile 174
Lion Feuchtwanger's History in Exile, the Josephus Trilogy 182
6 Rootless Cosmopolitans: German Jewish Writers and the Stalinist Purges 187
The Left in World War II and Thereafter 187
Communism, National Socialism, and the Jews 188
Writing the Stalinist Purges Alice Rühle-Gerstel Arthur Koestler Manès Sperber 197
The Left and the Stalinist Purges after 1945 Rudolf Leonhard Peter Weiss Stefan Heym 213
7 Russian Jews as the Newest Cosmopolitans 223
Rooted German Cosmopolitans? 223
In Germany, Gogol Is Not Sholem Aleichem 226
In America, Nabokov Really Is Not Sholem Aleichem 243
8 Walls and Borders: Toward a Conclusion 255
Notes 263
Works Cited 289
Index 321
