Zionism and Cosmopolitanism : Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine / Dekel Peretz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peretz, Dekel, 1979- Author.

Series:

Europäisch-Jüdische Studien - Beiträge

Europäisch-jüdische Studien - Beiträge : Herausgegeben vom Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum in Kooperation mit dem Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg , 2192-9602 ; 54

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XI, 304 p.)

Place of Publication:

München ; Wien : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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, Oppenheimer and his contemporaries also reimagined the place of Jews among European nations.

Contents:

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

Notes:

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ISBN:

3-11-072643-2

OCLC:

1334106351