The Question of Zion by Rose Jacqueline;

Author:Rose, Jacqueline;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008-03-19T16:00:00+00:00

When Hannah Arendt expresses her fears for the growth of Jewish culture, or Martin Buber talks of an organic center, they may well have been thinking of Ahad Ha’am, for whom Jewish culture was the sole raison d’eˆtre of a homeland in Palestine. Ahad Ha’am, who took the pen name “one of the people,” was born Asher Ginzberg in Skvire, in the Russian Ukraine. Although little known today outside Israel, inside the country some of his writings are still taught at school. They were also read by Noam Chomsky in his youth. Most famous for his plea for Palestine to become a “spiritual centre” for world Jewry, he was, like Buber and Kohn—the latter edited a selection of his writings—deeply suspicious of the idea of statehood. On publication of the Balfour Declaration, which as Weizmann’s “intimate adviser” he had played a part in formulating, he commented,

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