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- Title
The Conventional Lies and Paradoxes of Jewish Assimilation: Max Nordau's Pre-Zionist Answer to the Jewish Question.
- Authors
Geller, Jay
- Abstract
The article focuses on pre-Zionist writings of Max Nordau, the 1880s and early 1890s foremost cultural icon in Jewish intellectual assimilation. Nordau's work embodies contradictions created by Jewish desires for assimilation while his speeches to Zionist congresses and writings address the dilemmas of the existence of Jews in postemancipation Europe. P.M. Baldwin, a historian, argues that the interest of Nordau in antisemitism and Judaism is negligible in his pre-Zionist writings. On the other hand, Nordau's pre-Zionist cultural criticisms show his attempt to resolve the paradox of the assimilated intellectual of male Jews.
- Subjects
EUROPE; NORDAU, Max Simon, 1849-1923; ASSIMILATION (Sociology); ZIONISM; ANTISEMITISM; JUDAISM; PARADOX; CULTURE; JEWISH men
- Publication
Jewish Social Studies, 1995, Vol 1, Issue 3, p129
- ISSN
0021-6704
- Publication type
Article