Racial conceptions of Jewish identity in Zionism
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Racial conceptions of Jewish identity in Zionism
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In the late 19th century, amid attempts to apply science to notions of race, some advocates of Zionism sought to reformulate conceptions of Jewishness in terms of racial identity and the "race science" of the time. They believed that this concept would allow them to build a new framework for collective Jewish identity, and thought that biology might provide "proof" for the "ethnonational myth of common descent" from the biblical land of Israel. Countering antisemitic claims that Jews were both a
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Use of racial theories for and against Zionism
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_conceptions_of_Jewish_identity_in_Zionism
date created:
2023-07-08T17:07:21Z
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2024-08-27T05:54:12Z
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