Shmuel Hugo Bergmann: A Life between Prague and Jerusalem

Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2024

Shmuel Hugo Bergmann

A Life between Prague and Jerusalem

Edited by: Olaf Glöckner , Boaz Huss and Marcela Menachem Zoufalá

Volume 63 in the series Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111046013

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In recent years, the interest on life and work of the Jewish writer, philosopher, mystic and politician Shmuel Hugo Bergmann (1883–1975) has perceptibly increased. Well-known as a protagonist of the famous "Prague Circle", Bergmann headed for Palestine in 1920, became the driving force for building the Jewish National Library in Jerusalem and finally advanced as first Rector of the Hebrew University. All his life, close ties to the Czech Republic remained.
In the State of Israel, Bergmann became a leading philosopher and highly admired cultural figure. He himself showed great interest in world religions, mysticism, and Western esotericism. Bergmann also emerged as an important point of reference for left-wing Israeli discourse. Up from the late 1920ies has was one of the protagonists of the “Brit Shalom”, an initiative which called for an advocated peaceful coexistence of Jews and Arabs and a bi-national State in Israel/Palestine.
In this volume, distinguished historians, scholars of religion, and cultural scientists conflate a fascinating life story of a man who always worked on social and educational improvements and searched for fairness and deeper truths in a world full of conflict and antagonisms.

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Boaz Huss, Beer Sheva, Israel; Marcela Menachem Zoufalá, Prague, Czech Republic; Olaf Glöckner, Potsdam, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Bergmann’s Prague and Czech Lands
Village Memories and National Renewal: Prague to Jerusalem via Chraštice and Galicia Hillel J. Kieval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
“Our Attitude to the Yiddish Language” Hugo Bergmann on the Yiddish Language, a Comparison with Kafka and Langer, and the Yiddish Research in the Czech Republic Štěpán Balík, Marie Brunová, Jiří Holý, Hana Nichtburgerová and Olga Zitová Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
“The Lifeline”: Max Brod and Hugo Bergmann Anna-Dorothea Ludewig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Theodor Lessing, Hugo Bergmann, and the “Prague Circle” Julius H. Schoeps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Bergmann’s Prague Years 1883–1919: A Man beyond Categories of his Era Jan Fingerland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
The Jewish National Movement in the Czech Lands During the First Republic and Hugo Bergmann: Czech Jews amid Jewish, Czech and Czechoslovak Identities Blanka Soukupová Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
The Last Chapter? Leo Herrmann and the Czech Transfer (1938–1939) Zbyněk Tarant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
II Bergmann in Palestine and Israel
“There are so Many Ways of Spiritual Development”: Shmuel Hugo Bergmann’s Interests in Western Esoteric and Alternative Spiritual Currents Boaz Huss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
“Is the Spirit of the Fathers still Alive?” Hugo Bergmann Between the Zionist Dream, Search for Justice, and Inner Doubts Olaf Glöckner and Marcela Menachem Zoufalá Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
To Be a Librarian in 1920 – What Did that Mean? Samuel Hugo Bergmann the Librarian Zvi Leshem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
III Philosophy and Theology
Bergmann as a Conduit of European Philosophy: The Case of Martin Heidegger Daniel M. Herskowitz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Embracing an Anthroposophical Vision of Judaism: Schmuel Hugo Bergmann Reads Ernst Müller Guy Paz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
A Leap of Faith. Samuel Hugo Bergmann as a Disciple of Buber and Rosenzweig Nicham Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
Hugo Bergmann’s India. From Nehru to Aurobindo and “The Mother” Arie M. Dubnov and Shimon Lev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	197
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Index of Persons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Scholars in the fields of Jewish Studies, Zionism, and Jewish Thought.
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 253
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 11
- Coloured Illustrations: 1
Keywords: Czech-Jewish; German-Jewish and Israeli History; the Jewish National Library and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Interreligious Exchange; modern mysticism and spirituality; the Prague Circle.

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Published: July 22, 2024
ISBN: 9783111046013

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Published: July 22, 2024
ISBN: 9783111045139