Jonathan Judaken
Jonathan Judaken (born February 23, 1968 in Johannesburg , South Africa ) is an American historian .
Life
Judakens family belonged to the Jewish, white minority in the apartheid dominated South Africa , which influenced his later research interest. His family moved with him to the United States when he was a child. Judaken studied philosophy at the University of California, San Diego , received a Masters and PhD in history from the University of California, Irvine . He had a fellowship for a postdoc at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .
From 1999 he researched and taught history at the University of Memphis . In 2006/2007 he spent a research year at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . Since 2011 he has been a professor of history at Rhodes College in Memphis , Tennessee . He works on issues relating to racism, anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism. Judaken was president of the North American Sartre Society .
Fonts (selection)
- Jean-Paul Sartre and the Jewish Question: Anti-antisemitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual . University of Nebraska Press, 2006
- as editor: Race After Sartre: Antiracism, Africana Existentialism, Postcolonialism . SUNY Press, 2008
- Naming Race, Naming Racisms . With an interview by Cornel West . Routledge, 2009
- with Robert Bernasconi : Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context . Columbia University Press, 2012
- Blindness and Insight: The Conceptual Jew in Arendt and Adorno's Post-Holocaust Reflections on the Antisemitic Question . In: Lars Rensmann , Samir Gandesha (eds.): Arendt and Adorno: Political and Philosophical Investigations . Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2012, pp. 173-195
- The presentiment and memory of the Nazi horror: Emmanuel Levinas and the Holocaust . In: Zeev Mankowitz, David Weinberg, Sharon Kangisser Cohen (eds.): Europe in the Eyes of Survivors of the Holocaust . Jerusalem Yad Vashem, 2014, pp. 171-206
Web links
- Literature by and about Jonathan Judaken in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Jonathan Judaken , at Rhodes College
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Judak, Jonathan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Johannesburg |