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Zionism and the roads not taken : Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn / Noam Pianko.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pianko, Noam.
- Series:
- Modern Jewish Experience
- The modern Jewish experience
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Identity--History--20th century.
- Jews.
- Jews--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Zionism and Judaism.
- Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem, 1881-1983.
- Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem.
- Kohn, Hans, 1891-1971.
- Kohn, Hans.
- Rawidowicz, Simon, 1897-1957.
- Rawidowicz, Simon.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- ""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""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-66328-3
- 9786612663284
- 0-253-00430-6
- OCLC:
- 646066515
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