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 ; Volume 54.

Europäisch-jüdische Studien. Beiträge ; Volume 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zionism--Germany--History.

Zionism.

Sociology--Germany--History.

Sociology.

Oppenheimer, Franz, 1864-1943.

Oppenheimer, Franz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 304 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Zionism and Cosmopolitanism

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]

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:

The young Oppenheimer's utopian horizon : socialism, Darwinism and Rassenhygiene

Biology, sociology and the Jews

Oppenheimer's path to Zionism

Altneuland : a German colonial journal

Altneuland's entanglement in German racial and colonial discourses

When fantasies meet realities.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 284-298) and index.