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Peretz Dekel <1979-, > |
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Zionism and Cosmopolitanism : Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine / / Dekel Peretz |
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München ; ; Wien : , : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022] |
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©2022 |
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1 online resource (XI, 304 p.) |
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Europäisch-jüdische Studien - Beiträge : Herausgegeben vom Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum in Kooperation mit dem Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg , , 2192-9602 ; ; 54 |
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Monografia |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Young Oppenheimer's Utopian Horizon: Socialism, Darwinism and Rassenhygiene -- Chapter 2 Biology, Sociology and the Jews -- Chapter 3 Oppenheimer's Path to Zionism -- Chapter 4 Altneuland - A German Colonial Journal -- Chapter 5 Altneuland's Entanglement in German Racial and Colonial Discourses -- Chapter 6 When Fantasies Meet Realities -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Register |
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Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) was a prominent German sociologist, economist and Zionist activist. As a co-founder of academic sociology in Germany, Oppenheimer vehemently opposed the influence of antisemitism on the nascent field. As an expert on communal agricultural settlement, Oppenheimer co-edited the scientific Zionist journal Altneuland (1904-1906), which became a platform for a distinct Jewish participation within the racial and colonial discourses of Imperial Germany. By positioning Zionist aspirations within a German colonial narrative, Altneuland presented Zionism as an extension, instead of a rejection, of German patriotism. By doing so, the journal's contributors hoped to recruit new supporters and model Zionism as a source of secular Jewish identity for German Jewry. While imagining future relationships between Jews, Arabs, and German settlers in Palestine, |
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Oppenheimer and his contemporaries also reimagined the place of Jews among European nations. |
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