Tue, 09. Jul 2024, 19:00-20:30
Radical Jews. Post-1967 American Zionism and the Settler Movement
Vortrag von Dr. Sara Yael Hirschhorn (Jerusalem/Haifa) im Rahmen der Sommeruniversität 2024 (in English) Sara Yael Hirschhorn examines trends in Jewish-American radicalism from the 1960s and onward both at home in the United States and abroad in Israel. As a generation of young American Jews found it increasingly difficult to square the circle between their universalist and particularist commitments after the 1967 War, particularly within the world of progressive activism, they made choices that they believed allowed them to apply their radical backgrounds to their future activities. For a small cohort, this meant decamping for Israel — and eventually over the Green Line — where they served as leaders and cadres within the Israeli settler movement and brought the discourses and tactics of their USA activism to their new roles. For the vast majority who remained in America/”Amerika,” it meant reinventing Jewish and Zionist traditions in a new world of identity politics and polarization, a first iteration of the debates we are seeing after 10/7. While many radicals were Jews and some Jews were radicals, this lecture attempts to understand “Jewish radicalism” and “Jewish liberalism” as unique phenomena that have had a profound influence on American/Jewish and Israeli contemporary history.
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