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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459136203321

Autore

Pianko Noam

Titolo

Zionism and the Roads Not Taken [[electronic resource] ] : Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-66328-3

9786612663284

0-253-00430-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Collana

Modern Jewish Experience

Disciplina

320.54095694092/2

Soggetti

Jews - Identity - History - 20th century

Jews - Intellectual life - 20th century

Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem

Kohn, Hans

Rawidowicz, Simon

Zionism and Judaism

Jews - History - Identity - 20th century

Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East

Middle East

History & Archaeology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Breaking the Sovereign Mold:Nation beyond State in Modern Jewish Thought""; ""2. “Sovereignty Is International Anarchy�: Jews, World War I, and the Future of Nationalism""; ""3. Text, Not Territory: Simon Rawidowicz, Global Hebraism, and the Centering of Decentered National Life""; ""4. Making American Democracy Safe for Judaism: Mordecai Kaplan, National Civilization, and the Morality of Zionism""; ""5. From German Zionism to American Nationalism: Hans Kohn, Cultural Humanism, and the Realizationof “the Political Idea of Judaism�""

""6. Zionism, Jewish Peoplehood, and the Dilemmas of Nationality in a



Global Era""""Notes""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

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