Max Nordau’s View on Sephardic Judaism and the Emergence of Political Zionism
- In the following pages I discuss how,and to what extent, the eminent Zionist thinker Max Nordau, himself of Sephardic ancestry, viewed the history of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula in the context of his general critique of assimilation not only in regard to Jews,but in a more comprehensive understanding as well. My focus here is on the significance of assimilation in the history of the Jews on the Iberian Peninsula as reflected in Nordau’s writings, with an additional emphasis on his two visits to Spain, thefirst in 1875 and again between 1914 and 1920. In so doing, I attempt to integrate Ashkenazic and Sephardic history into one field of Jewish Studies. The relationship between the two has not yet been researched comprehensively, particularly in the context of the historical study of Zionism.
Author details: | Carsten SchapkowORCiDGND |
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URL: | https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110695410-010/html |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110695410-010 |
ISBN: | 978-3-11-069541-0 |
ISBN: | 978-3-11-069530-4 |
ISBN: | 978-3-11-069552-6 |
ISSN: | 2192-9602 |
Title of parent work (English): | Sephardim and Ashkenazim |
Subtitle (English): | Jewish-Jewish Encounters in History and Literature |
Publisher: | De Gruyter |
Place of publishing: | Oldenbourg |
Editor(s): | Sina Rauschenbach |
Publication type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2020 |
Publication year: | 2020 |
Release date: | 2024/06/20 |
Number of pages: | 19 |
First page: | 209 |
Last Page: | 228 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Jüdische Studien und Religionswissenschaft |
DDC classification: | 2 Religion / 20 Religion / 200 Religion |