Cultural Zionism and Binationalism Among American Liberal Protestants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12454397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Walker Robins (corresponding author), Walker Robins Walker Robins |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 142-142 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Israel Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1084-9513 • E-ISSN: 1527-201X |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/israelstudies.23.2.07 |
| OpenAlex | W2789827347 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
The article examines the influence of cultural Zionism, as represented by Ahad Ha'am and Judah Magnes, on three leading American liberal Protestants in the Mandate era—Harry Emerson Fosdick, William Ernest Hocking, and John Haynes Holmes. While all three claimed to support cultural Zionism, each interpreted and appropriated it in different ways. Fosdick favored it as a functional moral alternative to political Zionism—he came to equate it with Judah Magnes's binational solution to the Palestine question. Hocking had real ideological affinities with cultural Zionism but likewise came to prioritize its political implications. For both Fosdick and Hocking, the failure of Zionists to embrace binationalism meant the failure of Zionism. While Holmes shared their affinity for Magnes and binationalism, he did not equate cultural Zionism with binationalism, and so remained supportive of Zionism and Israel even as binationalism failed to win support
Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Zionism · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Jewish Identity and Society · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Religious Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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