Summary
The future leader of the German revisionists who taunted Franz Oppenheimer’s modular model of Jewish identity and whose word for German Jews’ relation to Germany Oppenheimer publicly rejected (Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, PDF p.265-266).
Details
- On Oppenheimer’s subcategories of consciousness — Kulturbewusstsein, Nationalbewusstsein, Reichsbewusstsein, märkisches Heimatbewusstsein — Lichtheim taunted: “Why not [add] Berlin residential consciousness? and English parliamentary consciousness? and a feeling for French painting?” (PDF p.265).
- At the Delegiertentag in Leipzig in June 1914, Oppenheimer rejected Lichtheim’s use of the term “Wohnland” for Germany, supposedly implying that his roots in Germany could easily be transplanted in expectation of the moving’s truck impending arrival (PDF p.266-267).
Related pages
Zionism and Cosmopolitanism: Franz Oppenheimer and the Dream of a Jewish Future in Germany and Palestine, Franz Oppenheimer