Contents

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Acknowledgments

pp.：  11 – 12

Preface Life on the Tip of a Pen

pp.：  13 – 34

The Legacy of Exile: A Biography of Pain

pp.：  17 – 23

The Interwar Quandary: Europe and the Jews

pp.：  24 – 29

Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Telling a Life

pp.：  30 – 34

Chapter One Mental Captivity. Re-imagining a Lost Heritage

pp.：  35 – 72

The Jewish Intellectual in Interwar Central Europe

pp.：  36 – 44

The Apolitical Weimar Intellectual and the Central European Tradition

pp.：  36 – 38

The Concept of the Jewish Intellectual

pp.：  39 – 44

Cultivating Marginality

pp.：  45 – 47

The Material Culture of Exile

pp.：  48 – 52

The Capitulation of the European Mind

pp.：  53 – 57

“All Roads Lead to Brody”

pp.：  58 – 61

Strawberries (1929, 1936)

pp.：  62 – 68

Conclusion

pp.：  69 – 72

Chapter Two Opening up the Crypt. The Political Potential of Nostalgia

pp.：  73 – 100

Nostalgia

pp.：  75 – 78

Europe’s “Jewish Orphans”

pp.：  79 – 81

Deconstructing Vienna

pp.：  82 – 85

Diasporic Identities

pp.：  86 – 87

The Emperor’s Tomb (1938)

pp.：  88 – 96

Conclusion

pp.：  97 – 100

Chapter Three The Lamentations of an “Old Jew.” The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer

pp.：  101 – 134

Exemplary Sufferers

pp.：  102 – 104

The Creation of Mendel Singer—Job (1930)

pp.：  105 – 109

A Questionable Fate: Hereditary Madness

pp.：  110 – 115

Narratives of Guilt

pp.：  116 – 121

Self-Narration, Part 1: The Suffering Jew

pp.：  122 – 128

Roads to Salvation—The Question of Justice

pp.：  129 – 131

Conclusion

pp.：  132 – 134

Chapter Four The Double Bind of Self-Narration. Jewish Identity and the Undercurrents of German-Jewish Modernity

pp.：  135 – 166

Theories of Non-Belonging

pp.：  137 – 138

Self-Inflicted Homelessness

pp.：  139 – 141

Self-Narration, Part 2: The Austrian Officer

pp.：  142 – 144

Self-Narration, Part 3: The Hotel Patriot

pp.：  145 – 150

Literary Cacophony, Linguistic Belonging

pp.：  151 – 158

The Legend of the Holy Drinker (1940)

pp.：  159 – 163

Conclusion

pp.：  164 – 166

Chapter Five Prophecies of Unrest. Interwar Europe under an Apocalyptic Lens

pp.：  167 – 200

On European Shores

pp.：  169 – 174

Prophetic Encounters

pp.：  175 – 178

The Antichrist (1934)

pp.：  179 – 185

A Universalist in Paris

pp.：  186 – 191

Quandaries of a Solitary Mind

pp.：  192 – 196

Conclusion

pp.：  197 – 200

Postscript

pp.：  201 – 204

Bibliography

pp.：  205 – 220

Index

pp.：  221 – 228