Zionist diversity in Berlin before World War I : a case study of Elias Auerbach

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  • 第一次世界大戦前ベルリンのシオニストの多様性 : エリアス・アウエルバッハの事例研究を通して
  • ダイイチジ セカイ タイセンマエ ベルリン ノ シオニスト ノ タヨウセイ : エリアス アウエルバッハ ノ ジレイ ケンキュウ オ トオシテ
  • 第一次世界大戦前ベルリンのシオニストの多様性 : エリアスアウエルバッハの事例研究を通して

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Before the First World War, German Zionism was perceived as a dilemma. According to historians, German Zionists had a limited and difficult choice between Germany and Zionism—a German state or a Jewish state. A key question is whether such a dilemma resulted in indifference to Zionist activism. This article explains German Zionism as a dilemma through a case study of the historian and physician Elias Auerbach (1881–1971), who was an important figure in Zionist circles in Berlin before the war and known as a pioneer emigrant to Eretz Israel. The study analyses his Zionist activities from child hood in the Province of Posen to adherence to Zionism in Berlin until making Aliyah, while focusing on his activities and the motivations for his actions. This case study shows that the dilemma did not cause general indifference but did motivate Auerbach's Zionist activism, thus suggesting a new explanation for Zionist diversity in Germany.

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  • 一神教世界

    一神教世界 12 46-64, 2021-03-31

    Doshisha University, Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Monotheistic Religions (CISMOR)

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