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Herzlian
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English
Etymology
From en Herzl ian, after Theodor Herzl.
Adjective
Zionist.
en 2000 The Pre-occupation of Postcolonial Studies Fawzia Afzal-Khan; Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks 261 0822325217 For all my disdain for Herzlian liberalism, religious Zionisms (those that combine statism with religion, whether Orthodox or not. e.g., blood and soil mysticism of the Right and Left) are even more problematic to me and. given the actual situation of the populations of Pelestine/Israel today, more delterious.
en 2003 The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt Seyla Benhabib 44 1461645417 Reflecting on the weaknesses of the nation-system in central and eastern Europe, Arendt saw in Herzlian Zionism a recipe for repeating these follies in Palestine.
en 2008 Jewish Identities Klara Moricz 0520933680 Resistance to Herzlian political Zionism in Russia displayed the familiar dichotomy between Jewish existence in the East and the West: a dichotomy between an almost intact community with living traditions and a Westernized, relatively emancipated Jewish culture that engaged in political action to substitute for its vanishing national identity.
Derived terms
en Herzlianism
Noun
A Zionist.
en 1958 Herzl Year Book Raphael Patai 16 There exists a vast literature advancing this criticism of Herzl's activities and of the Herzlians.
en 1986 Comparative Jewish Politics Sam N. Lehman-Wilzig; Bernard Susser Like the Herzlians, they wanted to reform Jewry and alter the Jewish condition; but the target that presented itself to them was the Diaspora which they distinguished in their minds from Jewry and Judaism in some proper, unencumbered, pristine state.
en 2000 Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader David C. Hammack - 218 0253214106 For the Herzlians, anti-Semitism constituted the central problem to be confronted, and a Jewish state was the one honorable solution.
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