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Moderation from Right to Left: The Hidden Roots of Brit Shalom
- Jewish Social Studies
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 19, Number 2, Winter 2013
- pp. 79-108
- 10.2979/jewisocistud.19.2.79
- Article
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Hans Kohn, Hugo Bergmann, and Gershom Scholem were among the leaders of Brit Shalom, a small but intriguing Zionist faction that advocated binationalism. This essay contends that their moderation and their consistent opposition to the prevailing Zionist vision of a Jewish state in Palestine issued from a völkisch outlook. Kohn, Bergmann, and Scholem shared a postliberal stance and a youthful Zionism influenced by Martin Buber, and their later binationalism emerged not from a renunciation of their former ideology but rather from its creative adaptation.