Zionism and the roads not taken: Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn
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Main Author: Pianko, Noam (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington Indiana University Press ©2010
Series:Modern Jewish experience (Bloomington, Ind.)
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Paralleltitel: Zionism & the roads not taken
Includes bibliographical references and index
Breaking the sovereign mold: nation beyond state in modern Jewish thought -- "Sovereignty is international anarchy": Jews, World War I, and the future of nationalism -- Text, not territory: Simon Rawidowicz, global Hebraism, and the centering of decentered national life -- Making American democracy safe for Judaism: Mordecai Kaplan, national civilization, and the morality of Zionism -- From German Zionism to American nationalism: Hans Kohn, cultural humanism, and the realization of "the political idea of Judaism" -- Zionism, Jewish peoplehood, and the dilemmas of nationality in a global era
Today, Zionism is understood as a national movement whose primary historical goal was the establishment of a Jewish state. However, Zionism's association with national sovereignty was not foreordained. Zionism and the Roads Not Taken uncovers the thought of three key interwar Jewish intellectuals who defined Zionism's central mission as challenging the model of a sovereign nation-state: historian Simon Rawidowicz, religious thinker Mordecai Kaplan, and political theorist Hans Kohn. Although their models d
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 277 pages)
ISBN:0253004306
0253221846
0253354552
9780253004307
9780253221841
9780253354556

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