20th Century – Page 6

Moses Gaster: Folklore, ‘Medieval’ Judaism and Turn-of-the-Century Jewish Historiography

by guest contributor Yitzchak Schwartz Historians have a very specific idea of how Jewish intellectuals understood their history at the turn of the twentieth century. Most see Jewish historiography of the period as centered around the German Wissenschaft des Judentums… Continue Reading →

October 19, 2015 7

Lincoln Kirstein, Dance, and Intellectual History

by guest contributor Laura Quinton Last week, New York University’s Center for Ballet and the Arts hosted a panel, “Dance and the Intellectual: Lincoln Kirstein’s Legacy.” The event featured moderator Leon Wieseltier, former literary editor of the New Republic, along… Continue Reading →

September 14, 2015 0

Prague ’68 and the End of Time

by John Raimo Prague’s famous Wenceslas Square fell silent on August 22nd and 23rd, 1968. Warsaw Pact troops invaded what was then Czechoslovakia the day prior in order to repress what had come to known as the Prague Spring. Under… Continue Reading →

May 18, 2015 0

Breadcrumbs in the Library

by guest contributor Erin McGuirl In the spring of 1989, Mai-mai Sze (1909-1992) and her partner Irene Sharaff (1910-1993) were looking for a home for their library. The collection is strong in East Asian religion, philosophy, and scientific history and… Continue Reading →

April 20, 2015 0

Medardo Rosso’s Casts, Copies and Prints: Illuminating the Artist’s Process

By guest contributor Jeremy Bleeke The life and work of Medardo Rosso (1858-1928) has traditionally been divided by scholars into two phases: an initial period of creative fecundity, and a late period characterized by processes of reproduction, repetition, and copying,… Continue Reading →

April 13, 2015 0

Old Ships, New Harbors

By John Raimo Transatlantic Theory Transfer: Missed Encounters?, a wonderful conference held last weekend at Columbia University’s Deutsches Haus, explored the American reception of key twentieth-century German thinkers. So capacious a theme may seem untenable at first, and so indeed… Continue Reading →

March 30, 2015 0

Finding Feelings in Intellectual History

by guest contributor Michael Duffy One of the consequences of advances in historical writing and theorization, at least in my neck of the woods, has been that we write about institutions as if feelings did not exist in them. Cambridge,… Continue Reading →

March 13, 2015 0

“Jules Verne would roll over in his grave,” or Döblin on the Future

by guest contributor Carolyn Taratko Migrants streaming into Europe’s cities, postcolonial conflicts brought home, Greenland’s melting ice sheet, scientists emancipated from nature’s constraints through the use of genetic engineering; these sound like today’s headlines, but in fact they come from… Continue Reading →

March 11, 2015 0

The Women of Négritude

by guest contributor Sarah Dunstan With the publication of his famous Cahier d’un retour au pays natal (English trans.) in 1937, Aimé Césaire introduced the word Négritude into the French lexicon. In so doing, he named the black literary and… Continue Reading →

March 6, 2015 0

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