Rosenzweig conceived the Free Jewish School as an engine of Jewish intellectual renewal

Evidence

Rosenzweig’s hopes were not realized. The lecture courses were intended to finance the smaller, more intensive working groups, and to provide an introductory stage for those seriously interested in Jewish life, but during the second half of the 1920s the attractiveness of the lectures began to decline. The project, although it had been imitated in the meantime in a number of other cities, collapsed and was only revived again in 1933 as a protest against the Nazi rise to power. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 209 (#complicates, via linked claim)

The Star of Redemption, writes Nahum Glazer, is “the most curious of ‘war books.’ A militant book it is, especially in its first parts, and confident of victory in its final passages. The enemy it attacks is the philosophy of German idealism, the home it defends is the individual.” Like love, which in the Star declares war on death (“ihm sagt die Liebe Kampf an”), Rosenzweig’s war book is thus itself a declaration of war. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 453 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Ghettoization concentrated and intensified Jewish intellectual life; Rosenzweig framed his philosophy as a declaration of war against German idealism — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab: A History of the…, 453; The Free Jewish School collapsed and was revived only as Nazi protest in 1933. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 209

Broader Connections

• The Free Jewish School collapsed and was revived only as Nazi protest in 1933. #complicates (0.76) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 209
• Rosenzweig framed his philosophy as a declaration of war against German idealism #expands (0.74) — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 453
• Ghettoization concentrated and intensified Jewish intellectual life #complicates (0.72)