TY - JOUR A1 - Schmidt, Imanuel Clemens T1 - A Secular Tradition BT - Horace Kallen on American Democracy in the United States and Israel JF - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany JF - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien N2 - This article focuses on the social philosopher Horace Kallen and the revisions he made to the concept of cultural pluralism that he first developed in the early 20th century, applying it to postwar America and the young State of Israel. It shows how he opposed the assumption that the United States’ social order was based on a “Judeo-Christian tradition.” By constructing pluralism as a civil religion and carving out space for secular self-understandings in midcentury America, Kallen attempted to preserve the integrity of his earlier political visions, developed during World War I, of pluralist societies in the United States and Palestine within an internationalist global order. While his perspective on the State of Israel was largely shaped by his American experiences, he revised his approach to politically functionalizing religious traditions as he tested his American understanding of a secular, pluralist society against the political theology effective in the State of Israel. The trajectory of Kallen’s thought points to fundamental questions about the compatibility of American and Israeli understandings of religion’s function in society and its relation to political belonging, especially in light of their transnational connection through American Jewish support for the recently established state. KW - modern Jewish history KW - United States KW - Israel KW - 20th century KW - Horace Kallen KW - cultural pluralism KW - intellectual history KW - moderne jüdische Geschichte KW - USA KW - Israel KW - 20. Jahrhundert KW - Horace Kallen KW - kultureller Pluralismus KW - Geistesgeschichte Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-532868 SN - 978-3-86956-520-0 SN - 1614-6492 SN - 1862-7684 IS - 27 SP - 85 EP - 100 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Diner, Hasia A1 - Krah, Markus A1 - Rabin, Shari A1 - Schwartz, Yitzchak A1 - Thulin, Mirjam A1 - Czendze, Oskar A1 - Schmidt, Imanuel Clemens A1 - Cooperman, Jessica A1 - Gallas, Elisabeth A1 - Rürup, Miriam A1 - Heyde, Jürgen A1 - Meyer, Thomas A1 - Ries, Rotraud A1 - Ullrich, Anna A1 - Geißler-Grünberg, Anke A1 - Schulz, Michael Karl A1 - Arnold, Rafael D. A1 - Sinn, Andrea A. ED - Diner, Hasia ED - Krah, Markus ED - Siegel, Björn T1 - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany = Foreign Entanglements: Transnational American Jewish Studies T2 - PaRDeS : Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies in Germany T2 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien N2 - The field of American Jewish studies has recently trained its focus on the transnational dimensions of its subject, reflecting in more sustained ways than before about the theories and methods of this approach. Yet, much of the insight to be gained from seeing American Jewry as constitutively entangled in many ways with other Jewries has not yet been realized. Transnational American Jewish studies are still in their infancy. This issue of PaRDeS presents current research on the multiple entanglements of American with Central European, especially German-speaking Jewries in the 19th and 20th centuries. The articles reflect the wide range of topics that can benefit from a transnational understanding of the American Jewish experience as shaped by its foreign entanglements. T3 - PaRDeS : Zeitschrift der Vereinigung für Jüdische Studien e.V. - 27 KW - American history KW - modern Jewish history KW - European Jewish history KW - transnational history KW - migration KW - interfaith dialogue KW - education KW - rabbinical seminaries KW - publishing history KW - book history KW - cultural history KW - modern Judaism KW - history and memory KW - Galicia KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - cultural pluralism KW - historiography KW - moderne jüdische Geschichte KW - USA KW - 19. Jahrhundert KW - 20. Jahrhundert KW - deutsch-jüdische Geschichte KW - transnationale Studien KW - Migration Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-519333 SN - 978-3-86956-520-0 SN - 1614-6492 SN - 1862-7684 IS - 27 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -