Glorious, Accursed Europe

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– 291 – Abramovitsh, S. Y. See Mendele Mokher Seforim absolutism, enlightened, 27–29 acculturation, 2, 59, 63–65, 214n24, 220n120; as cause of antisemitism, 98; as coercion, 162; limits of, 66, 69–70, 74, 78; prevention of, 96; results of, 84–85; values/norms and, 81–83. See also assimilation; integration acculturation, reverse, 168 Achimeir, Aba, 122–23, 132, 148 Ahad Haam, 51, 121, 126, 130, 144–45, 164 Aizman, Moshe, 139 Alexander II (czar), 28 Allgemeine Zeitung des Judentums (periodical), 31–32 Altman, Arieh, 182–83 Altneuland (Herzl), 37–38, 91, 144–46, 208n55, 208n63 America. See United States Americanism and Americanization, 170, 175–77, 185. See also antiAmericanism ; culture, American “An einen Mann von Stande” (Mendelssohn ), 18 Angell, Norman, 102 anti-Americanism, 175–77, 194–95, 250nn5–6 anti-Europeanness, 162–67, 241–42n31. See also Europe/ Europeanness: rejection of anti-Jewish literature. See literature anti-Jewishness. See antisemitism antinomy, East-West, 2, 136, 139, 162, 167–69, 196, 243n42, 243–44n48 antisemitism, 4–5, 86–99, 108–9, 136–37, 179, 189; 19th century and modern, 30–32, 89, 90, 212n10; causes/sources of, 87, 92–94, 97–98, 112–13, 222n2, 250n11; French, 186–87, 249n28; German, 72, 87–88, 97, 111, 119, 182, 184; Polish, 80, 94–95, 104, 115–16; rebirth of, 9, 198n17; role in the Orient, 141; Russian, 88, 90, 185; socialist view of, 94; types of, 94–96, 186. See also blood libels; Judeophobia; pogroms anti-Westernness. See antiAmericanism ; anti-Europeanness Appelfeld, Aharon, 250–51n12 Arabs, 135–37; Jewish view of/kinship with, 139, 152, 167; Western culture and, 148–49, 165–67, 241–42n31 archetypes, Jewish, 56 Arlosoroff, Chaim, 111, 148–49 Aronson, Aharon, 107 Ascher, Shaul, 105–6 Ashkenaz, 108, 238–39n3 Ashkenazi Ape (German antisemitism ), 97 Asia and Asiatics, 136–37. See also Orient, the assimilation, 59, 62–63, 65, 107, 214n24; antisemitism and, 93, 97–99; fear of, 156, 236–37n40; German Jews and, 90, 138; limitations of, 77–78, 90; Polish Jews and, 80–81; prevention of, 142. See also acculturation; integration Auerbach, Berthold, 44 Autoemancipation (Pinsker), 61, 93 Index 292 Index automobiles. See science and technology Baeck, Leo, 74 Balkans, the, 200–201n23 Baron, Salo Wittmayer, 65 Bar-Yosef, Hamutal, 202–3n44 Beilinson, Moshe, 116 Ben-Aharon, Yitzhak, 182 Benedict, Leopold. See Winchevsky, Morris Ben Gurion, David, 51–52, 116, 119–20, 149, 193–94 Ben-Hillel Hacohen, Mordechai, 158 Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, 206n43 Berdichevsky, Michah Yosef, 4–5, 30 Bergman, Shmuel Hugo, 83–84 Bernfeld, Shimon, 48–49, 126 Beyond Good and Evil (Nietzsche), 121–22 Bialik, Chaim Nachman, 113–14, 173–74 Bible, the, 3, 143, 203n46 Bilu movement, 38, 64, 151 Birnbaum, Nathan, 61–62, 77–78 Bismarck, Otto, 14, 22, 97, 107 “Blind Generation, The” (Brandstaetter ), 115 Bloch, Ivan, 102 blood libels, 30–31, 86–88, 90–91. See also pogroms Borochov, Ber (Dov), 52, 91, 142, 209n2 Brainin, Reuven, 49 Brandstaetter, Roman, 115 Brandstetter, Yehoshua, 151 Brenner, Y. C. (Yosef Chaim), 146–47, 158, 164–65, 243n40 Breuer, Isaac, 82–83 Britain/the British. See England/the English Buber, Martin, 39, 78, 137–38, 140–41 Buchanan, Patrick, 179–80 Bund (Jewish Socialist movement), 98, 118, 127 Burckhardt, Jakob, 246–47n71 Burke, Edmund, 13 characteristics, cultural. See character traits; culture entries characteristics, national. See character traits; stereotypes Characteristics of Paris (Rapoport), 125 character traits, 14–15, 60–62, 122, 160, 200–201n23, 215n27 Charlemagne, 12 Chekhov, Anton, 42, 44 Christianity and Christians, 11–12, 181, 198nn6–7 Christian-Jewish relations. See Jewish-Christian relations Churchill, Winston, 193–94 Cohen, Bernhard, 89 Cohen, David, 80 Cohen, Gustav, 89 Cohen, Hermann, 73 Cohen, Richard, 60 colonialism, cultural, 169, 244–45n55. See also Occidentalism and Occidentalists; Orientalism and Orientalists communism, 14, 185 conversion, religious, 77 “Correspondence of an English Lady on Judaism and Semitism, The” (Graetz), 1, 46–47 cosmopolitanism, 5, 55, 123, 200n14, 202–3n44, 209n2, 213n15 counterculture, 150–51 Croce, Benedetto, 102–3, 226n13 cross-Europeanism, 13–14, 16, 18–20, 200n14 cultural assets, 157–61. See also culture entries for various nationalities cultural perceptions, 123–26 cultural pessimism, 42–53, 177, 210n11 cultural polarization, 194–95 cultural reality. See acculturation Index 293 culture, amalgamation/transplantation of, 144–45, 156–57 culture, American, 166–67, 170–77, 194–95, 246n68, 246n71 culture, Ashkenazi, 123, 155, 166–68, 238–39n3 culture, Eastern. See Orient, the culture, English, 124, 129 culture, European...