Nationalism
Navigating between the universal and the particular.
What Israel, the U.S., and Britain still have in common.
An Iraqi Jew and leading scholar of the Middle East.
A new theory of Jewish nationalism promises to be more liberal than the old one. But it profoundly misunderstands Zionism—and liberalism.
And peoplehood in general.
A short history that misses the essential thing.
They reflect the ideology of the German elite.
In praise of their “solidarity and clarity of purpose.”
It needs to restore a lost balance between national and individual rights.
And the argument otherwise is based on a false misunderstanding.
Because nationalism ties together the particular and the universal.
Most orchestral music composed since 1950, writes Oliver Rudland, pales in comparison with that of the previous 100 years. Even popular music, after its mid-century. . .
The famed writer and former Soviet dissident, who now chairs the Jewish Agency for Israel, talks about the importance of Jewish nationalism in an allegedly. . .