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Nietzsche and Zion (Hardcover, New)
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Nietzsche and Zion (Hardcover, New)
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"Nietzsche's ideas were widely disseminated among and appropriated
by the first Hebrew Zionist writers and leaders. It seems quite
appropriate, then, that the first Zionist Congress was held in
Basle, where Nietzsche spent several years as a professor of
classical philology. This coincidence gains profound significance
when we see Nietzsche's impact on the first Zionist leaders and
writers in Europe as well as his presence in Palestine and, later,
in the State of Israel." from the IntroductionThe early Zionists
were deeply concerned with the authenticity of the modern Jew qua
person and with the content and direction of the reawakening Hebrew
culture. Nietzsche too was propagating his highest ideal of a
personal authenticity. Yet the affinities in their thought, and the
formative impact of Nietzsche on the first leaders and writers of
the Zionist movement, have attracted very little attention from
intellectual historians. Indeed, the antisemitic uses to which
Nietzsche's thought was turned after his death have led most
commentators to assume the philosopher's antipathy to Jewish
aspirations. Jacob Golomb proposes a Nietzsche whose sympathies
overturn such preconceptions and details for the first time how
Nietzsche's philosophy inspired Zionist leaders, ideologues, and
writers to create a modern Hebrew culture. Golomb cites Ahad Ha'am,
Micha Josef Berdichevski, Martin Buber, Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau,
and Hillel Zeitlin as examples of Zionists who "dared to look into
Nietzsche's abyss." This book tells us what they found."
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