Summary
In Peretz’s account of Altneuland (journal), the vision — held most fully by Yehoshua Radler-Feldman — of a Zionism open to Arab integration and assimilation on the basis of a claimed Semitic kinship between Jews and Arabs (Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, PDF p.234-236).
Details
- The edited review of Flinders Petrie’s Sinai history presented Moses’s law as not exclusive to Jews but comprising pansemitic elements that facilitated assimilation of encountered tribes into the Hebrew people (PDF p.222).
- For Warburg, religious differences were more significant in Syria than racial ones, the people of Syria being all part of one Mischrasse of mainly Hethitien [as printed], Semitic and Aryan components; for Furrer the “metonymic identity” between Jews and Muslims was a source of peace (PDF p.233-234).
- Aaronson and Soskin’s Es-Salt account constructed kinship through biblical Esau, defining a triangular framework of Germans/Christians, Arabs/Muslims and Jews (PDF p.234).
- Radler-Feldman expounded a pansemitic vision of Zionism open to Arab integration and assimilation, to be achieved through education as “peaceful conquest”, Arabic learning by Jews, and Arabic newspapers propagating Zionism’s benefit (PDF p.234-236).
Related pages
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Yehoshua Radler-Feldman, Altneuland (journal), Franz Oppenheimer