Babel Inc by Kerry Bolton

Author:Kerry Bolton
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Black House Publishing Ltd
Published: 2014-08-30T23:00:00+00:00

The American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League, and American Jewish Congress have supported simultaneously both ‘cultural pluralism’ for the United States (designed to militate against the emergence of an ‘American Nationalism’), and Jewish nationalism. Horace Kallen as the founder of the theory of cultural pluralism and as a Zionist connected the two ideologically. Kallen was one of the first to advocate a multiplicity of cultures and peoples existing within the same land-mass as the American goal.[13] Kallen was also the head of the U.S. branch of a Zionist secret society called the Parushim, Hebrew for ‘Pharisee’ and ‘separatist.’[14] Jewish separatism was legitimatised to Gentiles by promoting cultural pluralism in general, with the view to making Jewish separatism inconspicuous among a multiplicity of other cultures. Yet, this cultural pluralism does not reject the assimilationist ideal of the Melting-pot, other than for Jews. In some type of dialectic a society is supposed to function as a cultural plurality but still within the ideal of the Melting-pot of ‘one world, one race.’ The American Jewish Archive, which is a depository for Kallen’s papers, states of Kallen: ‘Kallen’s concept of cultural pluralism affirmed that each ethnic and cultural group in the United States has a unique contribution to make to the variety and richness of American culture and thus provided a rationale for those Jews who wish to preserve their Jewish identity in the American melting pot.’[15]

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