E-Book, Englisch, Band 54, 315 Seiten
Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine
E-Book, Englisch, Band 54, 315 Seiten
Reihe: Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge
ISBN: 978-3-11-072643-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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(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,
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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.