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An Unchosen People - Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland (Hardcover)
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An Unchosen People - Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland (Hardcover)
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A revisionist account of interwar Europe's largest Jewish community
that upends histories of Jewish agency to rediscover reckonings
with nationalism's pathologies, diaspora's fragility, Zionism's
promises, and the necessity of choice. What did the future hold for
interwar Europe's largest Jewish community, the font of global
Jewish hopes? When intrepid analysts asked these questions on the
cusp of the 1930s, they discovered a Polish Jewry reckoning with
"no tomorrow." Assailed by antisemitism and witnessing liberalism's
collapse, some Polish Jews looked past progressive hopes or
religious certainties to investigate what the nation-state was
becoming, what powers minority communities really possessed, and
where a future might be found-and for whom. The story of modern
Jewry is often told as one of creativity and contestation. Kenneth
B. Moss traces instead a late Jewish reckoning with diasporic
vulnerability, nationalism's terrible potencies, Zionism's
promises, and the necessity of choice. Moss examines the works of
Polish Jewry's most searching thinkers as they confronted political
irrationality, state crisis, and the limits of resistance. He
reconstructs the desperate creativity of activists seeking to
counter despair where they could not redress its causes. And he
recovers a lost grassroots history of critical thought and
political searching among ordinary Jews, young and powerless, as
they struggled to find a viable future for themselves-in Palestine
if not in Poland, individually if not communally. Focusing not on
ideals but on a search for realism, Moss recasts the history of
modern Jewish political thought. Where much scholarship seeks
Jewish agency over a collective future, An Unchosen People recovers
a darker tradition characterized by painful tradeoffs amid a
harrowing political reality, making Polish Jewry a paradigmatic
example of the minority experience endemic to the nation-state.
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