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Herbert Eiteneier on Djihad und Judenhass: Über den neuen antijüdischen Krieg

Herbert Eiteneier on Djihad und Judenhass: Über den neuen antijüdischen Krieg

March 1, 2006 | Herbert Eiteneier
The Nazi-Islamist Connection Djihad und Judenhass: Über den neuen antijüdischen Krieg by Matthias Küntzel Reviewed by Herbert Eiteneier
Some German Jewish Orthodox Attitudes Toward the Land of Israel and the Zionist Movement

Some German Jewish Orthodox Attitudes Toward the Land of Israel and the Zionist Movement

October 30, 1994
German Orthodoxy in the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods presents an interesting case study in Jewish attitudes toward Israel and the diaspora. The German Orthodox minority, no more than ten to twenty percent of German Jewry after World War I, participated with the majority of German Jews in a whole-hearted affirmation of German culture (in German Zionist parlance: Galutbejahung). As with all German Jews, German culture had become definitive of their very identity as Jews. Despite their commitment to Jewish observance, the German Orthodox had more in common with their less observant or non-observant brethren than with the historic Jewish traditional culture of Eastern Europe.