Summary
German writer (as Peter Panter) whose March 1, 1932 review of Franz Oppenheimer’s autobiography in Die Weltbühne, singling out the “cross of his Jewishness” in the autobiography’s final chapters, opens Chapter 1 of Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine (Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, PDF p.38, p.41).
Details
- Peretz reads Tucholsky’s criticism as aimed mainly at Oppenheimer’s apparent vanity: his relish in mingling with Germany’s military elite and royalty, denounced as subservience peeking out from beneath the cloak of conceitedness (PDF p.41).
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Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Franz Oppenheimer, Jewishness