Summary
The “religious-national party” founded in 1902, in Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, as a result of the incorporation of cultural Zionism at the Fifth Zionist Congress and Orthodox fears that cultural transformation would lead the masses astray (PDF p.121).
Details
- Cultural Zionism’s portrayal of contemporary Jewish culture as sick and degenerate, and the fear that cultural Zionists were promoting a Jewish Ersatz-Religion inspired by German Romanticism, resulted in the Mizrachi’s founding the year after the Fifth Congress (PDF p.121).
Related pages
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Theodor Herzl, Zionism