“The last German Jew”: a perspectival reading of Franz Rosenzweig’s dual identity through his collection at the Leo Baeck Institute

Pisano, Libera

“The last German Jew”: a perspectival reading of Franz Rosenzweig’s dual identity through his collection at the Leo Baeck Institute

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dc.contributor.author Pisano, Libera
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dc.description.abstract This essay is an attempt to analyse the multi-layered dimensions of Franz Rosenzweig’s Nachlass, which is held at the Leo Baeck Institute and is also available online. It aims to underscore the hermeneutic interplay in the archive itself, including a kind of explicit awareness of Rosenzweig’s posthumous reception as well as the discrepancy between the various profiles of him that emerge from reviews and obituaries. Following the development of Rosenzweig’s reception will enable us to understand why he was such a controversial figure, considered too Jewish for the Germans and too German for the Jews. In the first part of this study, I will analyse Rosenzweig’s archival consciousness by considering some passages from his diaries and correspondence, as well as his archival sensibility. In the second part, I will illuminate the outside view of Rosenzweig’s works—namely, the reviews and obituaries collected by his wife, Edith Rosenzweig-Scheinmann—in order to show both the tensions and the uniqueness of his reception during his lifetime and after his death. Finally, in the conclusion, I will discuss some “spectres” of the archive and the figure of Edith herself, whose work was crucial in shaping Rosenzweig’s legacy.
dc.description.sponsorship The research for this article was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG; German Research Foundation) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy—EXC 2176 “Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures,”project no. 390893796. The work was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg. The title of the project is “Wandering Artefacts: The Materialistic History of German-Jewish Archives,” RFE10 (2020–2024), and its principal investigator is Professor Giuseppe Veltri. However, the final version of this article was completed during my Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement Nº 101027857.
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dc.identifier.citation Pisano L. “The last German Jew”: a perspectival reading of Franz Rosenzweig’s dual identity through his collection at the Leo Baeck Institute. In: Strauss Z, Slater I, editors. Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion, vol. 2. Berlin: Brill; 2023. p.50-84. DOI: 10.1163/9789004508668_003
dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004508668_003
dc.identifier.isbn 978-90-04-50864-4
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59070
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Brill Academic Publishers
dc.relation.ispartof Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion, vol. 2. Berlin: Brill; 2023. p.50-84
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dc.title “The last German Jew”: a perspectival reading of Franz Rosenzweig’s dual identity through his collection at the Leo Baeck Institute
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