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African Spir's Erkenntnislehre (German Edition)

History

Lessing, Theodor

Europe

Legare Street Press

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Madonna Sixtina (1908) (German Edition)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Kessinger Publishing

Madonna Sixtina: Aesthetische und Religiöse Studien (German Edition)

BiblioLife

Product Description Enemy in The Country: Satires & Novellas is the first English translation of this fictional book by Jewish philosopher Theodor Lessing (1872-1933), who was assassinated by the Nazis during their rise to power. The collection of short stories, satires, novella, and poem is unique in Lessing’s writings. Set during the 1923-1925 French occupation of the Ruhr, they are powerful warnings, 10 years before Adolf Hitler became chancellor, on the dangers of threatening a prostrate post-war Germany with reparations and occupation. The volume was translated by award-winning author and translator Peter C. Appelbaum, who also translated Lessing’s famous 1930 book Jewish Self-Hate. About the Author Theodor Lessing was a German Jewish philosopher. He is known for opposing the rise of Hindenburg as president of the Weimar Republic and for his classic on Jewish self-hatred, a book which he wrote in 1930, three years before Adolf Hitler came to power, in which he tried to explain the phenomenon of Jewish intellectuals who incited antisemitism against the Jewish people and who regarded Judaism as the source of evil in the world.On the night of 30 August 1933, he was assassinated by Sudeten German Nazi sympathizers. Lessing was shot through a window of the villa where he lived. His assassins were German Nazis from Sudetenland, Rudolf Max Eckert, Rudolf Zischka and Karl Hönl. They fled to Nazi Germany after the assassination. His assassination by the Nazis was the first political murder of an opponent to the Nazi regime outside of Germany, and caused worldwide indignation.Lessing's philosophical views were influenced by Nietzsche and Afrikan Spir. According to Theodore Ziolkowski in Lessing's Geschichte als Sinngebung des Sinnlosen (History as Giving Meaning to the Meaningless), "writing in the tradition of Nietzsche, argued that history, having no objective validity, amounts to a mythic construct imposed on an unknowable reality, in order to give its some semblance of meaning."Author of many books, translated into a number of languages, the books written about Lessing continue to grow each year.Translator and Editor Peter C. Appelbaum, M.D., Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Pathology, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. After more than four decades in infectious disease research, Dr. Appelbaum is spend-ing his retirement years writing and translating books on modern-day Jewish military history. Most recently, he translated and edited Theodor Lessing’s Jewish Self-Hate (Berghahan, 2021). He is the author of Loyalty Betrayed and Loyal Sons (Vallentine-Mitchell, 2014) and, together with James Scott, has translated an anthology of war essays and poems by Kurt Tucholsky (Prayer after the Slaughter, Berlinica, 2015) and Broken Carousel: German Jewish Soldier-Poets of the Great War (Stone Tower Books, 2017). He is also the translator/editor of Jewish Tales of the Great War (Stone Tower Books, 2017). Dr. Appelbaum has also translated 170 ENEMIES IN OUR COUNTRY, Avidgor Hameiri’s Of Human Carnage—Odessa 1918–1920 (Black Widow Press and Stone Tower Press, 2020), The Great Madness (Black Widow Press and Stone Tower Press, 2021), Voyage into Savage Europe (Academic Studies Press, 2020), and Hell on Earth by Avigdor Hameiri into English from the original Hebrew for the first time (Wayne State University Press, fall, 2017). For that work, he was the recipient of the TLS-Risa Domb/Porjes Prize for Hebrew-English Translation for 2019.

Enemy In The Country: Satires and Novellas

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

Commonwealth Books, Black Widow

Jewish Self-Hate

A seminal text in Jewish thought accessible to English readers for the first time. 
The diagnosis of Jewish self-hatred has become almost commonplace in contemporary cultural and political debates, but the concept’s origins are not widely appreciated. In its modern form, it received its earliest and fullest expression in Theodor Lessing’s 1930 book Der jüdische Selbsthaß. 
Written on the eve of Hitler’s ascent to power, Lessing’s hotly contested work has been variously read as a defense of the Weimar Republic, a platform for anti-Weimar sentiments, an attack on psychoanalysis, an inspirational personal guide, and a Zionist broadside. 
“The truthful translation by Peter Appelbaum, including Lessing’s own footnotes, manages to make this book more readable than the German original. Two essays by Sander Gilman and Paul Reitter provide context and the wisdom of hindsight.”―Frank Mecklenburg, Leo Baeck Institute 
From the forward by Sander Gilman: 
Theodor Lessing’s (1872–1933) Jewish Self-Hatred (1930) is the classic study of the pitfalls (rather than the complexities) of acculturation. Growing out of his own experience as a middle-class, urban, marginally religious Jew in Imperial and then Weimar Germany, he used this study to reject the social integration of the Jews into Germany society, which had been his own experience, by tracking its most radical cases…. Lessing’s case studies reflect the idea that assimilation (the radical end of acculturation) is by definition a doomed project, at least for Jews (no matter how defined) in the age of political antisemitism.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Berghahn Books

Book by Theodor Lessing / Karl Berg / George God

Monsters of Weimar: The Stories of Fritz Haarmann and Peter Kurten

Berg, Karl

Godwin, George

Wilson, Colin [introduction]

Nemesis Publications

Product Description 
"Les événements de l'histoire humaine, cette chaîne ininterrompue de changements fortuits du pouvoir et d'actions arbitraires, cet océan de sang, de fiel et de sueur serait insupportable si l'homme ne pouvait leur attribuer un sens. Il ne suffit pas pour lui d'assigner à chaque effet une cause, il lui faut donner un sens à chaque événement; ainsi lorsqu'il dit "à qui la faute ?", il a déjà émis un jugement moral. Même si les destins des peuples étaient fortuits et même si tout avait pu être autrement, l'homme n'en continuerait pas moins de chercher à interpréter l'événement au plan de la signification logique et de la valeur morale. Ce besoin de conférer un sens, même à ce qui n'en a guère (c'est-à-dire une souffrance inexpliquée) intervient de deux manières : soit en faisant retomber la faute sur l'autre, soit en se déclarant soi-même coupable..." 
Pour Theodor Lessing, la psychologie des juifs n'est qu'un exemple particulièrement éclairant de la psychologie d'une minorité, quelle qu'elle soit, qui souffre en vivant sous le regard soupçonneux et constamment vigilant de sa conscience critique, détruisant ainsi toute spontanéité au profit d'une société dont elle est exclue et qu'elle perçoit comme supérieure. 
Theodor Lessing fut assassiné par les nazis à Marienbad, le 30 août 1933. 
Traduit de l'allemand et présenté par Maurice-Ruben Hayoun 
 From the Back Cover 
"Les événements de l'histoire humaine, cette chaîne ininterrompue de changements fortuits du pouvoir et d'actions arbitraires, cet océan de sang, de fiel et de sueur serait insupportable si l'homme ne pouvait leur attribuer un sens. Il ne suffit pas pour lui d'assigner à chaque effet une cause, il lui faut donner un sens à chaque événement; ainsi lorsqu'il dit "à qui la faute ?", il a déjà émis un jugement moral. Même si les destins des peuples étaient fortuits et même si tout avait pu être autrement, l'homme n'en continuerait pas moins de chercher à interpréter l'événement au plan de la signification logique et de la valeur morale. Ce besoin de conférer un sens, même à ce qui n'en a guère (c'est-à-dire une souffrance inexpliquée) intervient de deux manières : soit en faisant retomber la faute sur l'autre, soit en se déclarant soi-même coupable..." 
Pour Theodor Lessing, la psychologie des juifs n'est qu'un exemple particulièrement éclairant de la psychologie d'une minorité, quelle qu'elle soit, qui souffre en vivant sous le regard soupçonneux et constamment vigilant de sa conscience critique, détruisant ainsi toute spontanéité au profit d'une société dont elle est exclue et qu'elle perçoit comme supérieure. 
Theodor Lessing fut assassiné par les nazis à Marienbad, le 30 août 1933. 
Traduit de l'allemand et présenté par Maurice-Ruben Hayoun

HAINE DE SOI: Refus d'être juif

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Judaism

Berg

Wortmeldungen eines Unerschrockenen: Publizistik aus drei Jahrzenten (Gustav Kiepenheuer Bücherei) (German Edition)

G. Kiepenheuer

Ich warf eine Flaschenpost ins Eismeer der Geschichte: Essays und Feuilletons, 1923-1933 (Sammlung Luchterhand) (German Edition)

Luchterhand

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