• Acknowledgments • Introduction: “Philosopher and Jew” • The Fight for the Dignity of the Jews: The Impact of Zionism and the Holocaust on Jonas’s Biography and Thought • From the Rhineland to Jerusalem • Against the “Cult of Power and Contempt for Humanity” • Friendships and Conflicts among German-Jewish Émigré Scholars • “For a Time I Was Privileged to Enjoy His Friendship”: The Ambivalent Relation to Gershom Scholem • The Mystery of Jewish Existence and Contested Memories: Impressions of Jonas’s Friendship with Hannah Arendt
• “Revolt against Escapism”: Jewish Dimensions of Jonas’s Ethics of Responsibility • The Value of Life: Philosophical Critique of Nihilism • Rotseh ba-hayyim—Creation and Responsibility for the “Sanctity of Life” • De-Messianized Tikkun—Human Responsibility for the
“Divine Adventure” • Epilogue: “There Is a Mystery in the World”
• Appendix A. Our Part in This War: A Word to Jewish Men (1939)
• Appendix B. From an Unpublished Fragment of Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain (15 August 1941) • Appendix C. Hannah Arendt, 1906–1975: Eulogy Delivered at the Funeral Service at Riverside Memorial Chapel, New York City (18 December 1975)
• Appendix D. Letter to Hannah Arendt on Her Eichmann Book (1963) • Notes • Bibliography • Index