Margarete Susman - Religious-Political Essays on Judaism

Margarete Susman (1872-1966) was a German-Jewish writer, poet, and critic. In 1933 she fled to Switzerland, where she published Das Buch Hiob und das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes (1946), the first comprehensive religious interpretation of the Shoah. Elisa Klapheck (1962) is Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany, and author of Fräulein Rabbiner Jonas. The Story of the First Woman Rabbi (2004). She serves as a rabbi for the Jewish Community of Frankfurt.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Three (or four) major essays of Margarete Susman.- Chapter 3: The Revolution and the Jews (1919).- Chapter 4: The Job Question in Franz Kafka (1929).- Chapter 5: Judaism—A World Religion (1932).- Chapter 6: The Problem of Emancipation (1934).- Chapter 7: Biographical chart of Susman’s life.