Open Access Published by De Gruyter Oldenbourg 2022

Zionism and Cosmopolitanism

Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine

Dekel Peretz
Funded by: Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum

Volume 54 in the series Europäisch-jüdische Studien – Beiträge

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110726435

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About this book

Franz Oppenheimer (1864-1943) was a prominent German sociologist, economist and Zionist activist. As a co-founder of academic sociology in Germany, Oppenheimer vehemently opposed the influence of antisemitism on the nascent field. As an expert on communal agricultural settlement, Oppenheimer co-edited the scientific Zionist journal Altneuland (1904-1906), which became a platform for a distinct Jewish participation within the racial and colonial discourses of Imperial Germany. By positioning Zionist aspirations within a German colonial narrative, Altneuland presented Zionism as an extension, instead of a rejection, of German patriotism. By doing so, the journal’s contributors hoped to recruit new supporters and model Zionism as a source of secular Jewish identity for German Jewry. While imagining future relationships between Jews, Arabs, and German settlers in Palestine, Oppenheimer and his contemporaries also reimagined the place of Jews among European nations.

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Dekel Peretz, University of Potsdam.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
Chapter 1 The Young Oppenheimer’s Utopian Horizon: Socialism, Darwinism and Rassenhygiene Open Access Download PDF	25
Chapter 2 Biology, Sociology and the Jews Open Access Download PDF	55
Chapter 3 Oppenheimer’s Path to Zionism Open Access Download PDF	96
Chapter 4 Altneuland – A German Colonial Journal Open Access Download PDF	121
Chapter 5 Altneuland’s Entanglement in German Racial and Colonial Discourses Open Access Download PDF	169
Chapter 6 When Fantasies Meet Realities Open Access Download PDF	229
Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	275
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	284
Register Open Access Download PDF	299

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
Audience: Wissenschaftler/-innen mit Schwerpunkt jüdische Geschichte; Jüdische Studien
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
Keywords: Zionism; Anti-Semitism; Germany; Colonialism; Jewish identity

eBook

Published: January 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783110726435

Hardcover

Published: January 31, 2022
ISBN: 9783110726923