Malachi Haim Hacohen is Professor and Bass Fellow at Duke University, North Carolina. He serves as the Director of the Religions and Public Life Initiative at the Kenan Institute for Ethics. His book Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902-1945 (Cambridge, 2000) won the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association and Austria's Victor Adler State Prize.
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Introduction: Jewish European history
1. Writing Jewish European history
2. Rabbinic Jacob and Esau, Pagan Rome, and the Christian Empire
3. Esau, Ishmael, and Christian Europe: Medieval Edom
4. Waning Edom? Early Modern Christian-Jewish Hybridities
5. Jacob and Esau and Jewish emancipation, I: 1789-1839
6. Jacob and Esau and Jewish emancipation, II: 1840-1878
7. The Austrian Jewish Intelligentsia between empire and nation, 1879-1918
8. Imperial peoples in an ethnonational age? Jews and other Austrians in the First Republic, 1918-1938
9. Jacob the Jew: Antisemitism and the end of emancipation, 1879-1935
10. Esau the Goy: Jewish and German ethnic myths, 1891-1945
11. Typology and the Holocaust: Erich Auerbach and Judeo-Christian Europe
12. Postwar Europe: Austria, the Congress for cultural freedom, and the internationalization of European culture
13. A post-Holocaust breakthrough? Jacob and Esau today
Epilogue: the end of postwar exceptionalism.
