Zionism and the roads not taken
Subtitle: Rawidowicz, Kaplan, Kohn
By: Noam Pianko.
Series: The modern Jewish experience
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780253354556; 9780253221841
Subjects: Kaplan, Mordecai Menahem, -- 1881-1983; Kohn, Hans, -- 1891-1971; Rawidowicz, Simon, -- 1897-1957; Jews -- Identity -- History -- 20th century; Jews -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; Zionism and Judaism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Breaking the sovereign mold: nation beyond state in modern Jewish thought; title: Sovereignty is international anarchy: Jews, World War I, and the future of nationalism; title: Text, not territory: Simon Rawidowicz, global Hebraism, and the centering of decentered national life; title: Making American democracy safe for Judaism: Mordecai Kaplan, national civilization, and the morality of Zionism; title: From German Zionism to American nationalism: Hans Kohn, cultural humanism, and the realization of "the political idea of Judaism"; title: Zionism, Jewish peoplehood, and the dilemmas of nationality in a global era.