@article{Krah2021,
  author    = {Krah, Markus},
  title     = {Exporting Jewish Ideas from Germany (via Palestine) to America},
  series = {PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany},
  number    = {27},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-520-0},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-53304},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-533049},
  pages     = {101 -- 115},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {When he founded Schocken Books in 1945, department store magnate, philanthropist, and publisher Salman Schocken (1877-1959) called his new American publishing business an imitation of its German predecessor, which had functioned from 1931 until 1938. He intended it to replicate the success of the Berlin Schocken Verlag by spiritually fortifying a Jewish community uncertain in its identity. The new company reflected the transnational transfer of people, ideas, and texts between Germany, Palestine/Israel, and the United States. Its success and near-failure raise questions about transnationalism and American Jewish culture: Can a culture be imposed on a population which has its own organs and agencies of cultural production? Had American Jewish culture developed organically to the specific place where several million Jews found themselves and according to uniquely American cultural patterns? The answers suggest that the concepts of transnationalism and cultural transfer complement each other as tools to analyze American Jewry in its American and Jewish contexts.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Schmidt2021,
  author    = {Schmidt, Imanuel Clemens},
  title     = {A Secular Tradition},
  series = {PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany},
  journal   = {PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany},
  number    = {27},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-520-0},
  issn      = {1614-6492},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-53286},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-532868},
  pages     = {85 -- 100},
  year      = {2021},
  abstract  = {This article focuses on the social philosopher Horace Kallen and the revisions he made to the concept of cultural pluralism that he first developed in the early 20th century, applying it to postwar America and the young State of Israel. It shows how he opposed the assumption that the United States' social order was based on a "Judeo-Christian tradition." By constructing pluralism as a civil religion and carving out space for secular self-understandings in midcentury America, Kallen attempted to preserve the integrity of his earlier political visions, developed during World War I, of pluralist societies in the United States and Palestine within an internationalist global order. While his perspective on the State of Israel was largely shaped by his American experiences, he revised his approach to politically functionalizing religious traditions as he tested his American understanding of a secular, pluralist society against the political theology effective in the State of Israel. The trajectory of Kallen's thought points to fundamental questions about the compatibility of American and Israeli understandings of religion's function in society and its relation to political belonging, especially in light of their transnational connection through American Jewish support for the recently established state.},
  language  = {en}
}