Summary
An analytical category, following Lisa Silverman as used in Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, referring to the relationship between the constructed ideals of the ‘Jewish’ as opposed to the ‘not-Jewish’, rather than to any fixed notions of religion, ethnicity or culture — as distinct from Judaism and from the overloaded term ‘Jewish identity’ (Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, PDF p.18, p.40).
Details
- Peretz contextualises Franz Oppenheimer’s relationship to Jewishness, as opposed to Judaism, in the shifting dynamics of fin-de-siècle Germany (PDF p.18).
- Oppenheimer’s subtle repudiations of scientific antisemitism’s tropes — Jewish susceptibility to mental illness, sexual deviousness and physical degeneracy — are read in the work as an expression of his Jewishness (PDF p.44).
Related pages
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Franz Oppenheimer