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Category Archives: Susanne Klingenstein
Alliance Theory & The Custodianship Question
Custodianship Question in America Australia, New Zealand Europe Asia Canada, Latin America, Africa Different groups may have different interests, but all groups want custody of their own sacred stories. After Jews consolidated their position in the American History profession in … Continue reading
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The Canon and the Press: Susanne Klingenstein’s Institutional History of Jewish Literary Power
Susanne Klingenstein was born in 1959 in Baden-Baden, Germany, and grew up immersed in German literary culture. Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, Karl Kraus,and Arthur Schnitzler were her formative admirations. She studied at the universities of Mannheim, Heidelberg, and Stirling in … Continue reading
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The Custodianship Question
Part Two The Custodianship Question In Canada, Latin America, Africa Australia, New Zealand Europe Asia Alliance Theory Selig Perlman (1888-1959), a professor of Economics at Wisconsin, reportedly warned his Jewish graduate students, that “History belongs to the Anglo-Saxons. You belong … Continue reading
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Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America
Aaron Renn reviews sociologist Christian Smith’s new book Why Religion Went Obsolete: The Demise of Traditional Faith in America in the new December issue of First Things magazine: Smith offers a useful new lens: obsolescence. Religion is now obsolete—that is, … Continue reading
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Jews in the American Academy, 1900-1940: The Dynamics of Intellectual Assimilation (1991)
Susanne Klingenstein wrote: Being a transnational philologist was for [Leo] Wiener‘s mind what being a farmer was for his body: it eased tension. And it rooted the self — in the soil and in humanity… He did not belong [at … Continue reading
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What Determines The Winning Narrative?
“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” (Thucydides) The dominant determine our dominant narratives. When the dominant change, our narratives change. We have different narratives under Donald Trump than under Joe Biden or Barack … Continue reading
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Enlarging America: The Cultural Work of Jewish Literary Scholars, 1930-1990
Here are some highlights from this 1998 book by Susanne Klingenstein: * Harvard is the biggest thing in town…Harvard is an octopus sprawled all over Cambridge with tentacles reaching deep into Boston… Once you are inside…the Harvard world…is very small, … Continue reading
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