Zionism and the Roads Not Taken Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn

Name: Zionism and the Roads Not Taken Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn
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ISBN: 9780253221841

ISBN-10: 0253221846

ISBN-13: 9780253221841

Edition: 2010

Authors: Noam Pianko

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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 differed, each of these three thinkers conceived of a more practical and ethical paradigm of national cohesion that was not tied to a sovereign state. Recovering these roads not taken helps…

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List price: $23.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/3/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Acknowledgments



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


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