Jewish Diaspora and the Stakes of Nationalism: Margarete Susman's Theodicy
This article unpacks Margarete Susman's political and theological arguments at the core of her reading of the Book of Job. As I show through a reading of her oeuvre, Susman rejects political projects that she takes to be based on eschatology such as political Zionism. However, Susman should not...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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[2019]
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Religions
Jahr: 2019, Band: 10, Heft: 2, Seiten: 1-9 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
modern Jewish history
B German-Jewish history B Margarete Susman B Theodicy B Zionism B Diaspora |
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| Zusammenfassung: | This article unpacks Margarete Susman's political and theological arguments at the core of her reading of the Book of Job. As I show through a reading of her oeuvre, Susman rejects political projects that she takes to be based on eschatology such as political Zionism. However, Susman should not be viewed merely as a critic of Zionism. I argue that an analysis tuned to the historical circumstances of her writing should recognize her stance on the nation-building project in Palestine as ambivalent rather than antagonistic. Susman's conception of the Jewish spirit as rooted in self-sacrifice allows her to appreciate the national aspirations at the core of the Zionist project while rejecting Zionism's exclusion of other Jewish national projects. I contend that Susman's understanding of Jewish messianism as immanent rather than teleological informs her ambivalence toward Zionism as well as her original vision of Jewish political action. I argue in closing that Susman's theodicy offers a novel vision for Jewish ethics that is not limited to the historical moment of its formulation. Susman's theodicy also resonates within contemporary debates on Jewish diaspora in providing a non-centralized vision of Jewish national projects. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel10020103 |