Abstract

This essay portrays the "law of the good neighbor" as the principle of the Warburg Library's collections—as the argument for their expansion and coherence, as well as the principle governing the scholarly practice inspired by the Warburg Institute and "Warburg school" of cultural analysis. The essay includes a tribute to Anne Marie Meyer (1919-2004), Warburg scholar and long-time affiliate of the Institute, with special emphasis on the question that she uniquely raised: "Exactly what was the relation between [Aby] Warburg's research on paganism in the Renaissance and his meditations and fears about Judaism (and Jews)?"

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