"Letters on Judaism". Would Stefan Zweig have liked the title of this publication? This great Austrian author helped to build a world in which he would not be reduced to his ancestry, to the religion of his ancestors, to his "Judaism". First anti-Semitism, then National Socialism, made Zweig's cosmopolitan, non-denominational, tolerant utopia fail. The double suicide with his wife in 1942 had precisely this reason: Not wanting to live in a world in which people are killed, expelled, ridiculed and marginalized because they are Jews - whether they see themselves that way or not. But Hitler's perfidious definition of the other had triumphed.
Tutoring in identity politics: Stefan Zweig's letters on Judaism
2021-03-02T16:45:40.618Z
Everyone who defines society through group interests today should read Stefan Zweig's “Letters on Judaism”. The writer was Jewish, but he didn't want to be reduced to that. This has nothing to do with denial, but with an attitude that many today lack.
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