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The Emergence of a Jewish Nationalist Consciousness in Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 October 2009

Yosef Salmon
Yosef Salmon
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva Israel
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A discussion of the emergence of a modern Jewish collective consciousness in Eastern Europe does not require us to address the question of the beginnings of a movement, which also has an organizational aspect. The phenomenon under discussion—at least in its initial stage—was not organized; there were no membership cards, bylaws, or party conferences. It is my contention, however, that the emergence of a Jewish nationalist movement was connected to, and dependent upon, the prior emergence of a collective consciousness.Thus, on the one hand, our discussion is not based upon the phenomenological definition of nationalism, which is not a simple matter, while, on the other hand, we view the institutionalized nationalist movement as a consequence of a process of consciousness-building. Mine is a syncretic approach, the advantage of which is that it does not observe a historical process from an intellectual or theoretical point of reference foreign to the process.

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AJS Review , Volume 16 , Issue 1-2 , Spring 1991 , pp. 107 - 132
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Copyright © Association for Jewish Studies 1991

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This article is based on a lecture delivered at a seminar on Jewish nationalism sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (November 1981).

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