Stateless Zionism: Old traditions, new ideologies

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Stateless Zionism: Old traditions, new ideologies

Journal Title: Przegląd Narodowościowy - Review of Nationalities - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue

Abstract

This essay aims at exploring Zionist currents that resisted the establishment of a Jewish nationstate, their non-statist vision of Zionism and its roots in Jewish conditions and political traditions, as well as in European anti-statist ideologies and national patterns. First, the non-Zionist diaspora nationalism of Simon Dubnow will be examined, as an important point of reference of non-statist Zionisms; then, the reservations of Ahad Ha’am, founder of “spiritual Zionism”, from the vision of a nation-state and the Marxian anti-statism of Ber Borochov and his socialist followers will be observed. !erea#er, the anarchism of Martin Buber and his followers in the binational factions “Brit Shalom and Ihud” will be discussed; here anti-statism is manifestly theological. Lastly, the current manifestations of non-statist Jewish nationalism will be succinctly explored, focusing on two religious-Zionist rabbis, the late Menachem Fruman and Shimon Gershon Rosenberg, and the American historian David N. Myers.

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Zohar Maor

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EP ID EP446349
DOI 10.2478/pn-2018-0004
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