The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity
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The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity
By (Author) Barbara Hahn
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
4th October 2016
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Social groups: religious groups and communities
943.004924
Physical Properties
Paperback
248
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
369g
Description
"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been destroyed How to conceive of history after the catastrophes of the twentieth century This book begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the first Jewi
Reviews
"Professor Hahn has masterfully assembled a representative collection of prominent German Jewish women who joined in, and contributed to, [the] exciting and productive period in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries or who lamented its passing in the twentieth... The Jewess Pallas Athena is an important contribution to the growing body of scholarly works evaluating German Jewish life as well as studies concerning theories of modernity."--Jewish Book World "This work is a major contribution to cultural history and is appropriate for graduate level students and above, as well as the widely read general reader."--James LaForest, Association of Jewish Libraries Newsletter
Author Bio
Barbara Hahn is Distinguished Professor of German at Vanderbilt University. She is the author or editor of several books published in Germany on German-Jewish literature and culture. Together with Ursula Isselstein, she is editor in chief of the correspondence and diaries of Rahel Levin Varnhagen (Munich: C. H. Beck Verlag).
