Introduction

Aschheim, Steven Ε.

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“…Several studies have previously compared Arendt with the German Jewish Zionists – for example, Kurt Blumenfeld, Gershom Scholem, Martin Buber, and so on – in order to clarify Arendt's Zionism (cf. Barnouw, 1990; Aschheim, 2001), but none, thus far with Berlin.…”

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Zionism and the experience of the Shoah between Arendt and Berlin

Futai

2023

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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Zionism and the experience of the Shoah between Arendt and Berlin

Futai

2023

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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“…Koestler cited the problems of the use of the ‘obsolete and cumbersome’ Hebrew alphabet, which made reading the language difficult, and which he would have liked replaced by the Latin alphabet – an unrealistic suggestion, given the structure of this Semitic language 5 . Much later, Hannah Arendt, reporting on the Eichmann trial, was annoyed that it was partly conducted in Hebrew, ‘which, after all my dismal attempts to learn it, is no language, but a national misfortune’ (quoted in Aschheim 2001: 6).…”

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Language and nation-building in Israel: Hebrew and its rivals*

Safran

2005

Nations Nationalism

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Abstract. The problem of language preceded the founding of Israel. In the nineteenth century, the emergence of political Zionism was accompanied by a revival of Hebrew. In the early years of Jewish resettlement in Palestine, Hebrew slowly emerged as the popular language, a compromise between the Yiddish spoken by Eastern European immigrants and the Arabic or Ladino current among many Middle Eastern Jews. After World War I, as educational institutions proliferated, the challenge of French and German as languages of instruction was blocked by teachers' strikes. With the establishment of the state and the massive influx of Jewish displaced persons, mostly speakers of Yiddish, that language, regarded as a potential threat to the primacy of Hebrew, was systematically fought by the country's political and cultural elite. Today, the position of Hebrew as the national language of Israel is secure. English, however, has been asserting its influence in an increasingly postindustrial and globalised society.

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“…The first and foremost point Mosse inferred was that it was necessary to endow 'religion with a formative and ongoing role that few liberal rationalists (at least in previous decades) were wont to do'. 55 According to him, contrary to what Marxist vision suggested, not religion but precisely politics and economics had to be considered 'mere superstructures'. 56 Thus, the analysis of religious phenomena became the starting point from which Mosse forged his overall view of history.…”

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George L. Mosse and Christian Religious Thought in Contemporary History

Moro

2021

Journal of Contemporary History

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Today, nobody would consider George L. Mosse as a historian of Christianity. He is well known primarily for his works on the history of fascism, nationalism and racism. However, not only in the first phase of his career, as a scholar of early modern Europe, he was precisely a historian of Christianity, but his contribution to the understanding of Christian experiences and movements in the last centuries, albeit little known, has continued to be extremely relevant. So this article a reflection about Mosse’s approach to religion, and especially to Christianity, analyses the main results of his researches on the subject and their development and proposes a final appraisal of his legacy in this field of research.

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Zionism and the experience of the Shoah between Arendt and Berlin

Zionism and the experience of the Shoah between Arendt and Berlin

Language and nation-building in Israel: Hebrew and its rivals*

George L. Mosse and Christian Religious Thought in Contemporary History

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