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Epilogue

Remembering German Jewry, Forgetting Empire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2023

Yaniv Feller
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University of Florida
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The epilogue looks at what of Baeck’s thought remains relevant by turning to the presence of empire and the memory of genocide today. This is done by looking at institutions that bear Baeck’s name, including the Leo Baeck House in Berlin, the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, and the Leo Baeck Temple in Los Angeles. The latter stands for the tradition of ethical monotheism and resistance to state power. The LBI represents the creative legacy of German Jewry, and the concern with the writing of history, that Baeck embodied. Finally, the Leo Baeck House stands for the vexed relation between postcolonial thought and the memory of the Holocaust in the contemporary public sphere in Germany, as expressed in a recent debate around the work of Achille Mbembe. I contend that the fact that Baeck, and other German-Jewish thinkers, are often treated without regard to the imperial context has a corollary in contemporary debates in Germany about the relation between the colonial past and the memory of the Holocaust. Such heated debates, for example, the Mbembe Affair, show that the intertwining of the Jewish and Colonial Question is still very much a German Question.

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The Jewish Imperial Imagination
Leo Baeck and German-Jewish Thought
, pp. 179 - 192
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Epilogue
  • Yaniv Feller, University of Florida
  • Book: The Jewish Imperial Imagination
  • Online publication: 08 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009321877.008
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  • Epilogue
  • Yaniv Feller, University of Florida
  • Book: The Jewish Imperial Imagination
  • Online publication: 08 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009321877.008
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  • Epilogue
  • Yaniv Feller, University of Florida
  • Book: The Jewish Imperial Imagination
  • Online publication: 08 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009321877.008
Available formats
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