Summary
Jewish historian (1860–1941) whose 1931 essay Diaspora gives religious readings of exile — punishment, messianic hope, and, via Rashi, blessing — set beside the Zionist negation (Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine, PDF p.13-14).
Details
- Diaspora hope for return to Zion is one of Maimonides’ thirteen tenets as Dubnow presents it (1931/2003: 176–177, PDF p.13).
- Scattering as sowing Jews ‘like seeds from which the true world religion of monotheism would grow’ (PDF p.14).
Related pages
Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine, Negation of the Diaspora