Zionism and the Roads Not Taken

<p>Today Zionism is understood as a national movement whose primary historical goal was the establishment of a Jewish state. However Zionism's association with national sovereignty was not foreordained. <i>Zionism and the Roads Not Taken</i> uncovers the thought of three key interwar Jewish intellectuals who defined Zionism's central mission as challenging the model of a sovereign nation-state: historian Simon Rawidowicz religious thinker Mordecai Kaplan and political theorist Hans Kohn. Although their models differed each of these three thinkers conceived of a more practical and ethical paradigm of national cohesion that was not tied to a sovereign state. Recovering these roads not taken helps us to reimagine Jewish identity and collectivity past present and future.</p>