INDEX

Ableben (to demise)

Abraham (Semitic patriarch)

Abramovitsh, S. Y.

Adorno, Theodor; Benjamin and; Dialectic of Enlightenment; on Heidegger; on Heine; Negative Dialectics; Tiedemann on

“The Aetiology of Hysteria” (Freud)

Africa, in Hegel’s world history

Agamben, Giorgio; on Heidegger; on Muselmann

Agnon, S. Y.

Allemann, Beda

Altneuland (Old-new land, Herzl)

“Americanization” of Europe

Amerika (Kafka); see also Der Verschollene

Améry, Jean

“Andenken” (Hölderlin)

Andenken (remembrance)

Anderson, Benedict

Anderson, Mark

Anderson, Perry

Anhalter Bahnhof: Benjamin on; Brach-Gelände of; Celan and; Der Weltverkehr sculpture on; history of; hotels and retail shops at; images of; Jewish children sent out of Germany from; Jews deported from; Kindertransport from; lines connecting to; ruins/remains of; significance of; World War II bombing of

“An Schwager Kronos” (Goethe)

Anti-Semitism: Chamberlain and; enlightenment and; fascism and; Freud and; German/Jewish and; Hegel and; Jewish teachers and; Mack on; Menzel and; mimesis, civilization, and; nationalism and; Zionism and

Antwerp; Vienna, Rome, Prague, Paris, and

Apter, Emily

Arabs

Arcades, Benjamin on

The Arcades Project (Benjamin); historicism in; philosophy out of history and

Arendt, Hannah; Hahn on; Heidegger and; on Jewish pariahs; on mass death; on totalitarianism; “What Is Existential Philosophy?”; on world alienation

Ariès, Philippe

Aristotle

Armenians

Ascher, Saul

Aschheim, Steven

Atkins, Stuart

“At the Depot” (Bergelson)

Atomic bombs; on Japan

Atomization of the individual

Aufenthalte (stopovers)

Auf Geseres

Aufhebung (sublation)

Aufschreibesystem (system of writing down)

August, Duke Carl

Auschwitz

Austerlitz (Sebald); Jewish protagonist in; language breakdown in; narration in; photographs and; railways in

Austria-Hungary

Authenticity, death and

Axford, Barrie

Badt-Strauss, Bertha

Bahnung (facilitation)

Baioni, Giuliano

Bakhtin, M. M.

“Baranovich Station” (Sholem Aleichem)

Baranovich Station, Sicily, New York City, and

Barthes, Roland

Bataille, Georges

The Baths of Lucca (Heine)

Batts, Michael

Bauer, Felice

Baum, Oskar

Befreiung (liberation)

Bein, Alex

Being and Nothingness (Sartre)

Being and Time (Heidegger)

Being-towards-death

Benjamin, Walter; Adorno and; on Anhalter Bahnhof; on arcades; on Brecht; on civilization; cultural geography and; on dialectical image; on dialectics at a standstill; on German Jews’ souls; on Geschichte; on history; on Jetztzeit or now time; on Klee’s Angelus Novus; One-Way Street; on railways; on Ranke; Saint-Simonism and; on “weak Messianic power,”; see also The Arcades Project

Bergelson, David

Berghahn, Klaus

Berkowitz, Michael

Berlin: children roaming through ruins in; Delos and; Holocaust memorial in; Jewish Museum in; Palace of the Republic in; Potsdamer Platz; see also Anhalter Bahnhof

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (film)

Berliner Morgenpost

Berlin Wall

Berman, Russell

Bernhard, Thomas

Besitz (property)

Bestandstücke (pieces of reserve)

Bey, Reschid (Altneuland character)

Beyond the Pleasure Principle (Freud)

Bhabha, Homi; on nationality and nationalism; on transnational translation of time

Bibliothèque Nationale

Bildung; German colonialism and; Jewish; Mosse on German-Jewish dialogue and; Reisebilder as self-discovery and; subject formation, bildungsroman and

Bildungsroman; circularity of; subject formation, Bildung and; see also specific works

Bildverbot (ban on graven images of God)

Bismarck, Otto von: colonialism and; on German unification; Herzl and; nationalization of railway systems and

Blackbourn, David

Blacks, Jews and

The Black Atlantic (Gilroy)

Blanchot, Maurice

Bloch, Ernst

Blumenberg, Hans

Blyden, Edward

Bodenständigkeit (groundedness)

Börne, Ludwig; Heine and; as Jew in France; List and;

Bourdin, Martial

Boyarin, Daniel

Boyarin, Jonathan

Brach-Gelände (wasteland); as “no longer” anything

Brant, Sebastian

“Bread and Wine” (Hölderlin)

Brecht, Bertolt

Brenner, Michael

Breuer, Josef

Briefe aus Berlin (Heine)

Briegleb, Klaus

Brod, Max

Büchner, Georg

Buck-Morss, Susan

Bunyan, Anita

Burke, Edmund

Cadava, Eduardo

Cambodians, Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge and

Camera Lucida (Barthes)

Capitalism, Germany and

Carriages: between France and Germany; ships, railways and

Carrier pigeons

Cartesian geography

Cartesian spaces of national differences

Cartesian spatial and temporal coordinates

Cartesian subject/object dichotomy

Celan, Paul; Anhalter Bahnhof and; Bremen speech; Die Niemandsrose; on “Dulosigkeit” [you-lessness]; “Gespräch im Gebirg,”; Heidegger and; “La Contrescarpe,”; layered topographies and; Meridian speech; poetry by; Toposforschung and

Chamberlain, Houston Stewart

Chaplin, Charlie

Charié-Marsaines, M.

Chateaubriand, François-René de

Chevalier, Michel

Children: memories of; roaming through ruins in Berlin; sent out of Germany from Anhalter Bahnhof; see also Kindertransport

Chow, Rey

Christianity; Judaism v.; world history and

Chronology

Cimmerians

Citizenship: for Jews; Rossmann and

Civil society: formation of; nationality and

Civilization, mimesis, anti-Semitism and

Clark, T. J.

Clifford, James; on positive transnationalism; on travel; “Traveling Cultures,”

Clocks, Italian v. German

Cognitive mapping

Cohen, Margaret

Collapsing Space and Time (Brunn/Leinbach)

Colonialism: Bismarck and; Germany and; seafaring, world-historical people and; Zionism and

Columbus, Christopher

Communism

Concentration camps: death and; dreams in; Heidegger on; Jews deported to; Maidanek; Ravensbrück; Sofsky on; survivors of; Theresienstadt

Conceptual affinities

Contingency; chronology and; of historical and geographic simultaneity; Kafka and; Luhmann on; mobility and; modernity and; of past and present; railway disasters and

Cosgrove, Dennis

Cosmopolitanism: globalization and; hybridity and; List on; literary histories and; transmigration and

Cossacks

Cultural geography; cultural history v.; of German/Jewish modernity;

Cultural history

Cultural studies, geography of

Curry, Michael

Customs unions

Cycles of return

Da Gama, Vasco

Dahlmann, Friedrich

Dasein, Heidegger on

“Das Ge-Stell” (the En-framing)(Heidegger)

De l’Allemagne (Heine)

De Rerum Natura (Lucretius)

Death; in age of mechanical annihilation; anonymous; Ariès on; authenticity and; concentration camps and; dying and; Koselleck on; life and; from man-made disasters; murder v.; rituals around/mourning of; temporality and; World War I and; see also Being-towards-death; Mass death

Death camps, gas chambers and

Death drive, Freud on

The Death of Distance (Cairncross)

The Death of Ivan Illich (Tolstoy)

Death-world, life-world and

Deconstruction: Derrida on; of Hegel; of separatrix between German/Jewish

De-Jewification

Deleuze, Gilles

Delos, Greece: Berlin and; Heidegger and; meaning of island name

Denker invoking Dichter

Denkweg (path of thinking)

Der geschloßne Handelsstaat (Fichte)

“Der Ister” (Hölderlin)

Der Judenstaat (The Jewish state, Herzl)

Derrida, Jacques: on Bahnung; on deconstruction; on différance; Freud and; on Hegel and Genet; Heidegger on; on history; on Levinas; on Marx; on separatrix; specters and; on supplement

Der Verschollene (The man who went missing, Kafka); and bildungsroman; end of; Ezrahi on; Italienische Reise compared to; Railroad Stories compared to; railways and; Wilhelm Meister compared to

Der Weltverkehr (world transportation) sculpture

Destruction; see Luftkrieg und Literatur

Desubjectification, Kafka and

Deutschtum (Germanness)

Dialectical image, Benjamin on

Dialectical relationships, elective affinities as

Dialectic of Enlightenment (Horkheimer/Adorno)

Dialectic of modernity; see also German/Jewish modernity

Dialectics at a standstill; Benjamin on

Dialektisches Bild (dialectical image)

Diasporic consciousness

Die deutsche Literatur (Menzel)

Die Harzreise (Heine)

Die Niemandsrose (Celan)

Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis)(Kafka)

Différance, Derrida on

Disasters: railways; remains, memory and

Dohm, Christian Wilhelm von

Doktor Faustus (Mann)

Dreams: in concentration camps; Freud and; and ghosts in Reisebilder; Kafka’s New York harbor; railway maps and

Dreyfus affair

Du-Latenz (you-latency)

Dulosigkeit (you-lessness)

Eckermann, Johann Peter

Eichmann trial

Einstein, Albert, theory of relativity and

Eisenbahnjournal

Eisenbahnpolitik

Eisenman, Peter

Elective affinities

Electric telegraph

Eley, Geoff

Elon, Amos

The Emigrants (Sebald)

England: as part of Germanic world; railways of; time in

Enlightenment: anti-Semitism and; dialectic of; German/Jewish modernity and; Haskalah, Science of Judaism and; regeneration of body/nation and; voyages and; see also Bildung

Entartung (Degeneration)(Nordau)

Entsorgung der Vergangenheit (disposing of the past)

“Entsorgung der Vergangenheit” (Habermas)

Eshel, Amir

The Eternal Jew (Nazi film)

European state, in world history

Exner, Sigmund

Experience, expectation and; life-world/death-world and

Ezrahi, Sidra DeKoven

Fabrication of corpses

Fact, fiction v.

Farías, Victor

Fascism: anti-Semitism and; Communism and; or Cold War as bygone epochs

Faurisson, Robert

Felstiner, John

Fichte, Johann Gottlieb: Der geschloßne Handelsstaat; Heine on; on regeneration of body/nation; speeches/addresses by; on unified Germany

Fliess, Wilhelm

Fogel, Robert

Fóti, Véronique

Foucault, Michel

Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (Chamberlain)

France: carriages between Germany and; Germany and; railways of; trains between Germany and

Franzos, Karl Emil

Freizügig (can move across frontiers)

Fremdling, Rainer

Freud, Sigmund: anti-Semitism and; Beyond the Pleasure Principle; on death drive; Derrida and; The Future of an Illusion; ghosts and; Herzl and; on hysteria; The Interpretation of Dreams; Jewish dream of Rome; Judaism and; on memory; on memory and origin; “My Son, the Myops,”; on “mystic writing-pad,” Project for a Scientific Psychology; psychoanalysis and; railway system and; on representation; on screen memories; Sebald and; on seduction theory; on trauma

Freud’s Moses (Yerushalmi)

Frieden, Ken

Fürth: Nuremberg and; Nuremberg, Palestine and

Future: openness to; past and; temporality and

The Future of an Illusion (Freud)

Futures past

Fynsk, Christopher

Gans, Eduard; baptism of; Hegel and; Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden and

Gas chambers, death camps and

Gaus, Günther

Gegenüber ist unaufhebbar (that which stands across cannot be sublated)

Gegenverkehr (countertraffic)

Geiger, Abraham

Geist (Spirit)

Geistesgeschichte (intellectual history)

Genet, Jean

Geography: American, Kafka on; Cartesian; of cultural studies; mobility and; see also Cultural geography

German Empire

German Idealism

German Jews, souls of

German language: deterritorialization of, nationality and; Yiddish language v.

German Literature (Menzel)

German nation: body metaphor for; missing, seafaring Jew and; purity of

German nationalism

German subject without a nation, formation of

Germanic world, in world history

Germanistik

German/Jewish: critical theory as; definitions of; Greek and Jewish v.; relationships between; separatrix between; subject of

German/Jewish bodies

German/Jewish dialectic; Austerlitz and; immobility of; movements of; “other of history” as; in spaces of transnational mobility; tension and

German-Jewish dialogue

The German-Jewish Dialogue Reconsidered (Berghahn)

German/Jewish ghost stories

German/Jewish modernity; cultural genealogy of; cultural geography of; enlightenment and; German modernity as; Jewish modernity as; problems in; remains of

“The German-Jewish Parnassus” (Goldstein)

German/Jewish specters of history

German-Jewish studies

Germans, Jews, and the Claims of Modernity (Hess)

Germany: capitalism and; carriages between France and; Christianization of; as closed nation; colonialism and; deterritorialized; France and; Greece and; industrialization and modernization of; Italy v.; Jewish children sent out of, from Anhalter Bahnhof; as “land of two rivers” (Zweistromland); railway systems of; space of; trains between France and; unification of

Gerschenkron, Alexander

Gervinus, Georg

“Gesang des Deutschen” (Song of the German)(Hölderlin)

Geschichte (history)

Geschichte der poetischen National-Literatur der Deutschen (Gervinus)

Geschichtslosigkeit (historylessness), of Holocaust

Geschichtsphilosophie (philosophical history)

Geseres (imposed sufferings or doom)

“Gespräch im Gebirg” (Conversation in the mountains)(Celan)

Geständisse (Confessions)(Heine)

Gestapo headquarters

Gestapo member, confession of

Ghost stories, German/Jewish

Ghosts; see also German/Jewish specters of history

Gilroy, Paul

Ginzburg, Carlo

Gleichzeitigkeit des Ungleichzeitigen (simultaneity of the nonsimultaneous)

Global anxieties, national fantasies and

Globalization: cosmopolitanism and; mobility and; nationalism and; nationality and; railways and; studies on; transnationality and

Goebbels, Joseph: bunker of; non-Jews evacuated by order of

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang; “An Schwager Kronos,”; Battle of Jena, Luden and; bildungsroman and; death of; diaries of; on Germany’s unification and railways; Hegel and; Heine and; Italian journey of; Kafka and; modes of mobility used by; The Roman Carnival; spectatorship and; steering to port on a tempestuous sea; on subject formation; Varnhagen and; on Vesuvius; on world literature; Zweyter Aufenthalt in Rom; see also Italienische Reise; Wilhelm Meister

Goldstein, Moritz

Gombrich, E. H.

Gordon, Peter Eli; German-Jewish studies and; on Heidegger

“Göttingen Sieben,”

Greece: Germany and; Heidegger and; seafaring and; see also Delos, Greece

Greek world, in Hegel’s world history

Greenblatt, Stephen

“The Greenwich Bomb Outrage,”

Greenwich time

Grundriß der Geschichte der deutschen Literatur (Schaefer)

Grunwald, Max

Guattari, Félix

Güdemann, Rabbi

Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich

Gutzkow, Karl

Habermas, Jürgen

Hahn, Barbara

Hamlet

Harkort, Friedrich

Harvey, David

Haver, William

Hayles, N. Katherine

Hebel, Johann Peter

Hegel, G. W. F.; on Abraham; anti-Semitism and; deconstruction of; Derrida on; double reading of; Gans and; on German/Jewish; on ghosts of history; Goethe and; Heine and; on Jewish particularity and history; Marx and; Philosophy of Right; Philosophy of World History; “The Spirit of Christianity and Its Fate,”; Weltgeist and; on world history

Heidegger and National Socialism (Farías)

Heidegger, Martin; Adorno on; Agamben on; Arendt and; Aufenthalte; Being and Time; Bremen lectures; on calculative and meditative thinking; Celan and; on concentration camps; on Dasein; on death and dying; Delos and; Derrida on; Gordon on; Greece and; Hölderlin and; Kreutzer and; “Letter on Humanism,”; on mass death; memorial speech by; memory and; Nazis and; Rilke and; Rosenzweig and; on technology; “What Are Poets For?”; on world picture

Heimat (an originary place)

“Heimkunft” (Hölderlin)

Heine, Heinrich; Adorno on; banning works of; baptism of; The Baths of Lucca; Börne and; Briefe aus Berlin; Briegleb on; De l’Allemagne; Die Harzreise; “Epilogue,”; Eshel on; essays by; on Geistesgeschichte; on German/Jewish; Geständisse; ghost stories and; Goethe and; Hegel and; Ideen. Das Buch Le Grand; “Im Hafen,”; as Jew in France; as Jewish pariah; Jewish perception of history and; “Journey from Munich to Genoa,”; on linguistic doublings; List meeting with; Mah and; “On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany,”; “Peace,”; on railways, space and time; “Romanzero,”; seafaring and; “Über Polen,”; Verein and; see also Reisebilder

Herder, Johann Gottfried

Heritage of Our Times (Bloch)

Hermand, Jost

Herzl, Theodor; Altneuland; bildungsroman and; Bismarck and; Der Judenstaat; Freud and; LeBon and; List and; on Mauschel; Nordau and; Palestine and; on seafaring Jews; Wilhelm II and; Zionism and

Hess, Jonathan;

Hirsch, Baron Moritz von

Hirsch, Marianne

Historical emplotment

Historical materialism

Historical truth: psychoanalysis and; Sebald and

Historicism; in The Arcades Project; photography and

Historicity; Heine’s Jewish conception of; memory, remains, and; subjectivity, nationality and, in travel narratives; temporality and

Historie (narrative of history)

History: Aristotle on poetry v.; Benjamin on; Derrida on; Heine’s Jewish conception of; Jewish particularity and; of present; as salvation; Sebald on; universal; see also Cultural history; World history

Hobbes, Thomas

Hohenzollern (ship)

Hölderlin, Friedrich: “Andenken,”; “Bread and Wine,”; “Der Ister,”; “Gesang des Deutschen,”; Heidegger and; “Heimkunft,”

Holitscher, Arthur

Holocaust; cultural history, cultural geography, and; foreshadowing/backshadowing/sideshadowing; “forgetting” of; German-Jewish dialogue and; Germany’s “memorial culture” and; Geschichtslosigkeit of; Ginzburg on; Kohl and; mass death of; memorial, in Berlin; memory of; museums; representation and; Urtext as; White on; Wolf on

Homecoming

Homer’s Odyssey

Horkheimer, Max

Hotel Excelsior

The Human Condition (Arendt)

Hume, David

Husserl, Edmund

Hutu and Tutsis, in Rwanda

Huyssen, Andreas

Hybridity: cosmopolitanism and; German/Jewish identities and

Hysteria, Freud on

Ideen. Das Buch Le Grand (Heine)

Ideen zu einer Philosophie der Geschichte der Menschheit (Herder)

Identity: hybrid, of German/Jewish; Jewish; national; postconventional

“Im Hafen” (Heine)

Immigration, of Jews; see also Der Verschollene; (Jewish) immigrant mass object

The Interpretation of Dreams (Freud)

“Introduction to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right” (Marx)

Irgendwo in Berlin (film)

Irrweg (path of errors)

Italian journey, Goethe’s; see also Italienische Reise

Italienische Reise (Italian journey)(Goethe); Der Verschollene compared to; Reisebilder and; time and space in; volumes of

Italy: Germany v.; journeys to; time in Germany v.; see also Goethe, Johann Wolfgang; Heine, Heinrich

Jackson, Peter

Jahn, Wolfgang

Janouch, Gustav

Jaspers, Karl

Jennings, Michael

Jerusalem

Jesus Christ

Jetztzeit

“The Jewess Pallas Athena,” Hahn on

Jewgreek

Jewish body, as global body

Jewish Breslau, social history of

“Jewish Company,”

Jewish difference

Jewish identity

(Jewish) immigrant mass object, Kafka, Sholem Aleichem, and

Jewish modernity, as German/Jewish modernity

Jewish national body, Zionism and fantasies of

Jewish pariahs

Jewish particularity, history and

Jewish problem, Freud on

Jewish state, Zionism and

Jewish subject without a nation

Jewish taboo, on mimesis

The “Jewish question,”

Jews: Arabs and; assimilation/absorption of; banking and; blacks and; children, sent out of Germany from Anhalter Bahnhof; citizenship for; deportation of; Eastern-European; fatherland of; freedom, laws and; immigration of; v. Mauschel, as races; muscle; nation building and; in Oriental world, of Hegel’s world history; as parasites; pogroms and; poverty of; railway financing and; regeneration and; Russia, Pale of Settlement and; seafaring; severance and; slavery and; souls of German; transmigration and immigration of; voyages of discovery by; as wanderers; as world-historical people; see also De-Jewification; specific individuals

“Jews as Anchormen and Seafarers” (Grunwald)

Joffe, Josef

Jones, Ernest

Jost, Isaac Marcus

“Journey from Munich to Genoa” (Heine)

Judaism: Christianity v.; Freud and; Geiger on; Hellenism and; of Jesus Christ; Science of; see also Anti-Semitism

Judentum (Jewishness)

Junges Deutschland (Young Germany)

Kaes, Anton

Kafka, Franz: on American geography; Anderson, M., and Jahn on; Bauer and; Brod and; contingency and; desubjectification and; Die Verwandlung; Goethe and; Hotel Occidental and; Janouch and; as Jewish pariah; on legal system; linguistic technique of; meta-epistemology of the railway and; New York harbor dream of; “On Apperception,”; Rossmann as fictional character for; Sholem Aleichem, (Jewish) immigrant mass object, and; on space, time, and travel; “The Stoker,”; on subject formation; “The Trial,”; on Yiddish; see also Der Verschollene

Kant, Immanuel: Heine on; on state as body; on sublime

Kaplan, Caren

Kepler, Johann

Kierkegaard, Søren: on Abraham; on subjectivity of individual

Kindertransport

Kingscourt (Altneuland character)

Kipnis, Jeffrey

Kittler, Friedrich

Klee’s Angelus Novus

Kleist, Heinrich von

Klemperer, Victor

Klüber, Ludwig

Knobloch, Heinz

Kohl, Helmut: Holocaust memorial and; on memories of Nazis; on third and fourth generations of Holocaust

Kopfbahnhof (terminal railway station)

Koselleck, Reinhart: on death; on dreams in concentration camps; on futures past; on space and time

Kreutzer, Conradin

Krüger, Eduard

Kulturnation

“La Contrescarpe” (Celan)

Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe

Landes, David

Lang, Fritz

Languages: breakdown, in Austerlitz; deterritorialization of, Deleuze and Guattari on; national; see also German language; World language; Yiddish language

Laube, Heinrich

Lazare, Bernard

LeBon, Gustav

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim

“Letter on Humanism” (Heidegger)

Levi, Primo

Levinas, Emmanuel

Libeskind, Daniel

Life drive

Life-world: death-world and; experience, expectation and; Husserl on

List, Friedrich; Börne and; on cosmopolitanism; on Germany’s unification and railways; Heine meeting with; Herzl and; meta-epistemology of the railway and; Nuremberg, Fürth, Palestine and

Literary histories; constitution and; cosmopolitanism and; national; temporality in

The Literary Channel (Apter)

Literaturblatt

Littwak, David (Altneuland character)

Loewenberg, Friedrich (Altneuland character)

Loewenberg, Peter

Long, J. J.

Löwi, Rabbi Isaac

Löwy, Michael

Lucretius

Luden, Heinrich

Luftkrieg und Literatur (Sebald)

Luhmann, Niklas

Lukács, Georg

Luther, Martin

Luxemburg, Rosa

Lyotard, Jean-François

Mack, Michael

Magellan

Mah, Harold

Malkin, Irad

“The Man from Buenos Aires” (Sholem Aleichem)

Mann, Thomas

Maps of Meaning (Jackson)

Marbach, Gotthard

Marcuse, Herbert

Marx, Karl: Bauer and; on capitalism; Derrida on; essays by; Hegel and; on work and time

Mass death: Arendt on; destruction of other and; Heidegger on; of Holocaust; modernity and; technology and

Mass deportations

Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff

Mass politics

Mauschel, Herzl on

Meine liebste Mathilde: Die beste Freundin der Rosa Luxemburg (Knobloch)

Memories; archaic; childhood; of eyewitnesses; Freud on; genuine; groundedness and; Heidegger and; of Holocaust; mobility and; recovered; remains, disaster and; remains, historicity and; screen; Sebald on; transportation systems as metaphors for; unconscious and; unlinking, from literalist reproduction of past

Mendelssohn, Moses

Mendes-Flohr, Paul

Menzel, Wolfgang

Messianic promise;

Meta-epistemology of mobility

Meta-epistemology of the railway

Meta-epistemology of the ship

Metaphors: archaeological; body, for German nation; Cicero on; of Jews as parasites; of mobility; railways as; of seafaring; ship as state; ships as; state as body; transportation systems as, for memory; window as; writing; of zeppelin, Zionism and

Metternich, Clemens von

Military, railways impact on

Mimesis, anti-Semitism, civilization and

“The Miracle of Hoshana Rabbah” (Sholem Aleichem)

Mischung (mixed form)

Mobility: contingency and; diaspora, exile, and; epistemological consequences of; geography and; knowledge and, with travel literature; memory and; metaphors of; modernity and; “no places of,”; transnationality and

Mobility studies

“The Modernist Event” (White)

Modernist travels

Modernity; see German/Jewish modernity

Modernization: industrialization and, of Germany; railways and; storytelling and

Morality (Sittlichkeit)

Moretti, Franco

Moritz, Karl Philipp

Moser, Moses

Moses

Mosse, George L.

Moykher-Sforim, Mendele

Muir, Willa and Edwin

Mundt, Theodor

Murder, death v.

Muselmann, Agamben on

Muselmänner, Levi on

Museums, Holocaust

Musil, Robert

“My Son, the Myops” (Freud)

Napoleon

Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools)(Brant)

Nation building

National differences: Cartesian spaces of; nationality, space, time and

“National Economy and Philosophy” (Marx)

National fantasies, global anxieties and

National identity

Nationalism: anti-Semitism and; German; globalization and; nationality and

Nationality; civil society and; concentric v. autocentric; cultural expressions for; culture and; deterritorialization of German language and; globalization and; groundedness of; Herzl, List, and; national differences, space, time and; nationalism and; spatial matrix and; subject formation and; subjectivity, historicity and, in travel narratives; Zionism and

Nationalization of place

Natural history of destruction

Nazis: buildings, excavation of; colonialism and racial thought of; The Eternal Jew and; Heidegger and; Kohl on memories of; Operation Harvest Festival; remains of

Negative Dialectics (Adorno)

Negroponte, Nicholas

Neurophysiology, psychology and

Neuzeit (modernity or “new time”)

New York City; Kafka’s harbor dream of; Sicily and; Sicily, Baranovich Station, and

Nibelungen film (Lang)

Nicholas I

Nicholas II (ship)

“No-places,”

Nora, Pierre

Nordau, Max

The North Sea; as locale for Hegel and Heine’s movements of Spirit

Nostos

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Rilke)

Novalis

Nuremberg: Fürth and; Fürth, Palestine and

Object: (Jewish) immigrant mass, Sholem Aleichem, Kafka, and; subject

Observer, observed

Odyssey (Homer)

One-Way Street (Benjamin)

“On Apperception” (Kafka);

“On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany” (Heine)

“On the Jewish Question” (Marx)

Oriental world, in Hegel’s world history

Origin: Freud on memory and on; journey/return to

The Origins of Totalitarianism (Arendt)

Ortschaft (placeness)

Ōta Yōko

Other: of history, as German-Jewish dialectic; mass death destruction of

Otherness, voyages and

“An Outline of Psycho-Analysis” (Freud)

Pale of Settlement, Russia, Jews and

Palestine; German colonialism, Bildung and; Herzl and; Jewish children sent out of Germany to; Nuremberg, Fürth, and; Wilhelm II and

Panama scandal

Paris; railways of; time; Vienna, Rome, Antwerp, Prague and

Passagen-Werk; see The Arcades Project

Past: anniversary rituals and; caging of; disposing of; future and; musealization of; present and; remains of, in present; unlinking memory from literalist reproduction of; see also Memories

“Peace” (Heine)

Pensky, Max

Pereire family

Pfennig-Magazin

Philosophy: out of material history; of right, world history and

Philosophy of Right (Hegel)

Philosophy of World History (Hegel)

Poetics (Aristotle)

Poetry: Aristotle on history; out of material history

Pöggeler, Otto

Pogroms, Jews and

Positive transnationalism

Postal system;

Postmemory

Prague; Vienna, Rome, Antwerp, Paris and

Prague Territories (Spector)

Prawer, S.S.

Present: history of; past and; remains of past in;

Progress, deification of

Project for a Scientific Psychology (Freud)

Prussia: Napoleon and; Palestine and; railways and

Psychoanalysis: Freud and; as Jewish science

Psychology of the masses

Quintilian’s ship of state

Raabe, Wilhelm

Rabinovich, Sholem Y.

Rahden, Till van

Railroad Stories (Sholem Aleichem); “Baranovich Station,” Der Verschollene compared to; diasporic consciousness in; “The Man from Buenos Aires,”; as meta-epistemology of the railway; “The Miracle of Hoshana Rabbah,”; religion in; “Slowpoke Express,”; subject formation in; thematic subjects in

Railway(s): in Austerlitz; Benjamin on; carriages, ships and; cultural geography and; Der Verschollene and; disasters; of England; financing; of France; Germany’s unification and; globalization and; Heine on space, time and; mass migration, mass deportations and; meta-epistemology of the; as metaphors; military impacted by; modernization and; monopolies; of Paris; Prussia and; religion and; representation and; ships; significance of; strikes; theology and; time and; of United States; as Verbindungsmittel for body of nation; see also Trains

Railway cars

Railway maps, dreams and

Railway nodes

Railway stations; see also Anhalter Bahnhof

Railway stocks;

Railway systems: business compared to; coordinating times and; defined; Freud and; of Germany; to Jerusalem; nationalization of; sea and, as spaces; Sebald and

Railway timetable

Railway tracks;

Ranke, Leopold von

Readings in Cultural Geography

Reck, Friedrich

Reden an die deutsche Nation (Addresses to the German nation)(Fichte)

Regeneration: of body and nation; Jews and

Regeneration der Poesie (Gervinus)

Reichseisenbahngesetz

Reichskristallnacht

Reisebilder (Pictures of travel, Heine); dreams and ghosts in; four volumes of; Italienische Reise and; Jesus Christ in; juxtapositions of images/genre/identity in; Wilhelm Meister and

Reisebilder I-II (Heine)

Religion: in Railroad Stories; railways and; see also Christianity; Judaism

Remains: of Anhalter Bahnhof; definition of; disposing of; memory, disaster and; memory, historicity and; in museums; of Nazis; of past in present; productive expenditure and

Representation; Freud on; Holocaust and; probing limits of; railways and; Sebald on

Rilke, Rainer Maria

The Roman Carnival (Goethe)

“The Romantic School” (Heine);

Roman world, in Hegel’s world history

“Romanzero” (Heine)

Rome: Freud’s Jewish dream of, Prague, Antwerp, Paris, Vienna, and

Rootedness of place

Rosenzweig, Franz

Rosh, Lea

Roskies, David

Rossmann, Karl (Der Verschollene character): citizenship and; as Jew; as Kafka’s fictional character; renaming himself Negro; spectatorship and; systems of power and; Uncle Jacob and

Rothschild family;

Ruins; see Remains

Russia, Jews, Pale of Settlement and

Ruttmann, Walter

Saint-Simonism;

Sammons, Jeffrey

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Sattelzeit (saddle period) of

Sauer, Carl O.

Schaefer, Johann Wilhelm

Schichten (layers)

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang;

Schlußstrich-Mentalität (drawing a line to demarcate the past)

Schmidt, Erich

Schnapp, Jeffrey

Scholem, Gershom;

Schorske, Carl

Schriftgelehrten (rabbinic scholars)

Schultz, Gerhard

Schwechten, Franz

Science of Judaism

“Screen Memories” (Freud)

Sea: Goethe steering to port on a tempestuous; railway systems and, as spaces; see also the North Sea

Seafaring; Greece and; Heine and; Jews; metaphors of; world-historical people, colonialism, and; see also the North Sea

Sebald, W.G.: The Emigrants; Freud and; historical truth and; on history; Luftkrieg und Literatur; on memory; on natural history of destruction; railway systems and; on representation; spectatorship and; see also Austerlitz

Seder

Seduction theory, Freud on

Seeba, Hinrich C.

Seinsverlassenheit (loss of being)

Separatrix: definition of; between German/Jewish

Serra, Richard

Seßhaftigkeit (sedentary-ness)

Ships: carriages, railways and; Gilroy on; metaepistemology of the; as metaphors; spectatorship and; as state metaphors; travel by trains; see also Seafaring

Shipwreck with Spectator (Blumenberg)

Shipwrecks

Sholem Aleichem; see also Railroad Stories

“A Shtetl” (Weissenberg)

Sicily; Baranovich Station, New York City, and; New York City and

“Slowpoke Express” (Sholem Aleichem)

Smith, Adam

“The Society of Jews,”

Sofsky, Wolfgang: on concentration camps; on Muselmänner

Soja, Edward

Sonderweg theories

Sorkin, David

Soukup, Frantisek

Space(s): Cartesian, of national differences; of Germany; sea and railway system travel as; of transnational mobility, German-Jewish dialectic in

Space and time; in Altneuland; Heine on railways and; Kafka on travel and; Koselleck on; nationality, national differences and

Spatial practice

Spectatorship: Goethe and; Rossmann and; Sebald and; ships and; shipwrecks and

Specters; see German/Jewish specters of history

Spector, Scott;

Spirit: Hegel and Heine’s movements of; see also Geist; World Spirit

“The Spirit of Christianity and its Fate” (Hegel)

Staatsschiff (ship as state)

Staël, Germaine de

Stalinism

State: as body metaphor; ship as, metaphors

Steamships, Stein, Charlotte von

Stendhal

Sterben (to die)

Stern, Fritz

Stern, Laurence

“The Stoker” (Kafka)

Storytelling, modernization and

Strachey, James; Strich, Fritz

Strousberg, Bethel Henry

Studies on Hysteria (Freud)

Subject formation: bildungsroman, Bildung and; Goethe on; Kafka on

Subject formation; nationality and; in Railroad Stories

Subject, object

Subjectivity; of individual; nationality, historicity and, in travel narratives

Sublime

Supplement: Derrida on; dialectics at a standstill, tension, and; Yiddish language as, to German

Survival in Auschwitz (Levi)

Systems of power: Rossmann and; in “The Trial,”

Taylor, Charles

Technology: Heidegger on; mass death and; nature; see also Railways

Tempodrom

Temporal distance

Temporality; death and; eschatological notion of time and; experience, expectation, return, and; future and; historicity and; tripartite

Terdiman, Richard

Terezín (town)

Thacker, Andrew

Theology, railways and

Theresienstadt

Tiedemann, Rolf

Time; acceleration of; Bhabha on transnational translation of; in England; eschatological notion of, temporality and; Greenwich; in Italy, Germany; railways and; work and; world/standard; see also Space and time; Temporality

“Time-kernel” (Zeitkern)

“Todtnauberg” (Celan)

Tolstoy, Leo

Tomb of the unknown soldier

Topography of Terrors

Toposforschung, Celan, and

Totalitarianism

Tower Society, in Wilhelm Meister

Trains: between Germany and France; Kafka on; travel by ship; see also Railways

Trakl, Georg

Transmigration: cosmopolitanism and; immigration and, of Jews; see also Der Verschollene Transnational translation of time Transnationality; globalization and; mobility and; studies

Transportation systems; see also Railway systems

Transportation, Zionism as politics of

Trauma, Freud on

Traumatic unconscious

“Traveling Cultures” (Clifford)

Travel literature, mobility and knowledge with

Travel narratives; cycles of return in; subjectivity, nationality, and historicity in; world history as; see also specific individuals/works

The Travels of Benjamin the Third (Moykher-Sforim)

Trennung (severance)

“The Trial” (Kafka);

“Über Polen” (Heine)

Umkehre (turning around)

Umkommen (to be killed)

Um-Wege (detours)

Unconscious: memory and; traumatic

Ungeziefer (vermin)

United States, railways of

“Unmoralische Literatur” (Menzel)

Ursprung (origin)

Valéry, Paul

Van Den Abbeele, Georges

Varnhagen, Rahel Levin

Verbindungsmittel (means of connection)

Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden (Society for Culture and Science of the Jews)

Verenden(to perish)

Vergangenheitsbewältigung (mastering the past)

Verkehr (traffic/transportation)

Vesuvius, Goethe on

Vesuvius, Goethe on

Vidal-Naquet, Pierre

Vienna, Rome, Prague, Antwerp, Paris and

Volkov, Shulamit

Von Moltke, Helmuth

Voyages: otherness and; Van Den Abbeele on

Voyages of conquest Voyages of discovery; Hegel’s movement of Spirit as; by Jews

Wachler, Ludwig

Wagner/Schönberg

Wally, die Zweiflerin(Gutzkow)

Walser, Martin

Wars of Unification

Weapons, new

Wege (ways)

Wegschauen (to look away)

Weissenberg, I.M.

Wellbery, David

Weltgeist, Hegel, and

Weltgeld (world gold)

Weltgericht (court/judgment of the world)

Werden liquidiert (to be liquidated)

Werden umgelegt (to be done in)

“What Are Poets For?” (Heidegger)

“What Is Existential Philosophy?” (Arendt);

White, Hayden;

Wienbarg, Ludwig

Wilhelm II (kaiser);

Wilhelm Meister (Goethe); Der Verschollene compared to; Reisebilder and; Tower Society in

Wilhelm Tell, Schiller’s

Wilkomirski, Binjamin;

Winckelmann, J.J.

Window, as metaphor

Wissenschaft des Judentums (Science of Judaism)

Wolf, Christa

Wollheim, Norbert

Word landscape, poem as

Work, time and

World alienation

World history: Africa in; Christianity and; eschatological progress of; European state in; Germanic world in; in a glass; Greek world in; Hegel on; Hegel’s four stages of; inventions of book printing/gunpowder in; Mediterranean Sea’s role in; Oriental world in; philosophy of right and; Roman world in; as travel narrative

World institute (Weltanstalt); see also Postal system

World language (Weltsprache)

World literature (Weltliteratur)

World picture, Heidegger on

World Spirit, travels of

World War I, death and

World War II, Anhalter Bahnhof bombing during

World-historical people: Jews as; seafaring, colonialism and

Wortlandschaft (word landscape), poem as

Writing metaphors

Wyschogrod, Edith

Yerushalmi, Yosef Hayim;

Yiddish language: conference on; German language; Jewish travel writing in; Kafka on; see also Railroad Stories

Yiddish literature; see also Railroad Stories

Young Germany controversy

Zantop, Susanne

Zeitschichten (layers of time)

Zeppelin, Zionism and metaphor of

Zero meridian

Zevi, Sabbatai

Zilcosky, John;

Zionism: anti-Semitism and; colonialism and; fantasies of Jewish national body and; First Congress; Grunwald and; Herzl and; as Jewish care for sick; Jewish state and; nationality and; as politics of transportation; Second Congress; zeppelin metaphor and

Zollverein (customs union)

Zumthor, Peter

Zunz, Leopold

Zweyter Aufenthalt in Rom (Goethe)