Category Archives: Germany

The German Historicist Tradition

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2012 book by Frederic Beiser: * …, historicism undermined the perennial search in Western philosophy to find transcendent justifications for social, political and moral values, i.e., the endeavor to give these values some universal … Continue reading →

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Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer’s Program of Torah u-Madda

Posted on July 26, 2020 by Luke Ford

Marc B. Shapiro writes circa 2000: Rabbi Esriel Hildesheimer (1820-1899) was, together with Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, the pioneer of Torah im Derekh Erez in modern times. Although each of them understood this concept differently, with Hildesheimer advocating Orthodox Wissenschaft … Continue reading →

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Torah im Derekh Ereẓ in the Shadow of Hitler

Posted on July 26, 2020 by Luke Ford

Marc B. Shapiro writes circa 2006: With the coming to power of the Nazi regime, and the governmental determination to remove Jews from all aspects of German culture and public life, Torah im Derekh Erez took another hit. Here was … Continue reading →

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Germany Confronts The Enemy Within

Posted on July 6, 2020 by Luke Ford

There are 16 references to the far-right and six to neo-nazis in this article but no definitions are offered. Katrin Bennhold writes for the New York Times: Germany has a problem. For years, politicians and security chiefs rejected the notion … Continue reading →

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Hitler’s True Believers: How Ordinary People Became Nazis

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this 2020 book by professor Robert Gellately: * Hitler said of the NSDAP in the 1920s that “90 ninety percent of it was made up by left-wing people.” He also thought it was “decisive” that … Continue reading →

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