Summary
Historian at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies, Potsdam, author of Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine (2022), which originated as his 2020 University of Potsdam doctoral thesis supervised by Julius H. Schoeps and Derek J. Penslar (Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, PDF p.5, p.8).
Details
- Portions of the book appeared earlier in the Year-Book for European Jewish Literature Studies (2016) and in Internal Outsiders – Imagined Orientals – Invented Occidentals? (2017) (PDF p.8).
- His stated aim is not a comprehensive biography of Franz Oppenheimer but a remedy for German biographies’ grasp of Oppenheimer’s German-Jewish identity, contextualising his relationship to Jewishness in fin-de-siècle Germany (PDF p.18).
Related pages
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Franz Oppenheimer, Jewishness