Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt and the paradox of “Non-nationalist” nationalism

Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-68

  Eddon, Raluca Munteanu ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85044803000     PISSN: 1053699X     EISSN: 1477285X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1053699032000133618     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. For the exchange, see Hannah Arendt, The Jew as Pariah (JP), pp. 240-251.
2. Scholem first met Arendt in Berlin in 1932. See Walter Benjamin - Gershom Scholem, The Story of a Friendship, trans. Harry Zohn, p. 191. They stopped corresponding shortly after the Eichmann exchange.
3. Much of the Scholem-Arendt correspondence is devoted to the Benjamin Nachlass. See Gershom Scholem, Briefe I 1914-1948 and Briefe II 1948-1970, ed. Itta Shedlezky, as well as the Scholem-Arendt correspondence in the Scholem Archives, Jewish National and University Library, Jerusalem, no. 4-1599.
4. See Aharon Kedar, “Brit Shalom” in The Jerusalem Quarterly, no. 18 (1981), (Winter), pp. 55-85.
5. See Susan Lee Hattis, The Bi-National Idea in Palestine in Mandatory Times, p. 40.
6. See Shalom Ratzabi, Between Zionism and Judaism: The Radical Circle in Brit Shalom, 1925-1933.
7. George Mosse, “Central European Intellectuals in Palestine” in Judaism, vol. 45 (1996), no. 2 (Spring), pp. 134-142.
8. David N. Myers, Reinventing the Jewish Past, p. 159.
9. Scholem's position is too well-known to be rehashed here. See, among many others, the essays “Against the Myth of a German-Jewish Dialogue” and “Once More: The German-Jewish Dialogue” in On Jews and Judaism in Crisis, pp. 61-70.
10. See, for example, Scholem's 1914 letters to his brother Werner in Briefe Band I 1914-1947, pp. 4-15.
11. Seyla Benhabib, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt, p. 99.
12. David Biale, Kabbalah and Counter-History, pp. 97-105
13. Paul Mendes-Flohr, pp. 104-119.
14. Ronald Beiner, “Arendt and Nationalism” in The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt, ed. Dana Villa, p. 45.
15. Hannah Arendt, “Zionism Reconsidered” in JP, p. 153.
16. See Hagit Lavsky, Before Catastrophe: The Distinctive Path of German Zionism, ch. 8.
17. Allan Arkush, “The Jewish State and Its Internal Enemies: Yoram Hazony Versus Martin Buber and His 'Ideological Children',” in Jewish Social Studies, vol. 7 (2001), no. 2 (Winter), pp. 169-190
18. David N. Myers, “'Hazono Shel Hazony' or 'Even If You Will It, It Can Still Be a Dream',” in Israel Studies, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 107-117.
19. See Anita Shapira, “The Zionist Labor Movement and the Hebrew University” in Judaism, vol. 45 (1996), no. 2 (Spring), pp. 183-198
20. See Immanuel Kant, “Perpetual Peace” in Political Writings, ed. Hans Reiss, pp. 93-130.
21. Letter from Hans Kohn to B Feiwel, Document no. 7, in Kedar, p. 78.