Flavors of Jewish Nationalism 
 (under construction)
 

Course Outline

• Breaking out of the Ghetto
  • The enlightenment
  • Jewish economical mobility
  • The legal emancipation
• Search for the defining attribute of the Jewish people
  • The claim for a common religious basis
  • The traditionalist definition
  • The cultural and social definition
    • Socialism: the economical point of view
    • Bundism, Autonomism: National cultural autonomy
• Recognizing the need for a Jewish state
  • External factors: the rise of nationalism in Europe
  • Direct factors:
    • Disillusionment with Western emancipation
    • Antisemitism in Eastern Europe
• Significance of the Jewish state
  • The necessity of Eretz-Israel in the nationalist view
  • Territorialism
  • Eretz-Israel as a Jewish cultural center

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