Margarete Susman (married: Margarete von Bendemann; October 14, 1872 – January 16, 1966) was a German-Jewish poet, writer, and critic who lived much of her life in Switzerland. The author of hundreds of essays, five collections of poetry, and notable literary-critical works, she distinguished herself as a philosophical writer addressing vital questions in literature, politics, culture and religion.[1][2] Her 1946 work Das Buch Hiob und das Schicksal des jüdischen Volkes (1946), a reflection on Jewish history through the lens of the Biblical book of Job, was one of the earliest postwar Jewish theological responses to the Holocaust.[3][4]
- ^ Hahn, Barbara (March 1, 2009). "Margarete Susman Archived 2016-10-12 at the Wayback Machine." Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2016-06-15.
- ^ Rubin, Abraham (Winter 2016). "Nihilism, Modernity and the 'Jewish Spirit': Margarete Susman's Transvaluation of a Fin-de-Siècle Trope." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 34, No. 2. p. 1-25. doi:10.1353/sho.2016.0006. Here: p. 2.
- ^ Rubin (2016), p. 20, note 24.
- ^ Hillman, Susanne (2014). "'A Few Human Beings Walking Hand in Hand': Margarete Susman, Leonhard Ragaz, and the Origins of the Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Zurich." Leo Baeck Institute Year Book. Vol. 59, p. 141-162. doi:10.1093/leobaeck/ybu003. Here: p. 155.