Zionism and the Roads Not Taken - Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn

Informationen zum Autor Noam Pianko is Samuel and Althea Stroum Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and International Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Klappentext Recovering these roads not taken helps us to reimagine Jewish identity and collectivity, past, present, and future. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Realization of "the Political Idea of Judaism" 6. Zionism, Jewish Peoplehood, and the Dilemmas of Nationality in a Global Era Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Noam Pianko, Pianko Noam
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.06.2010
• EAN: 9780253221841
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22184-1
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Modern Jewish Experience; The Modern Jewish Experience; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories