Word: zionism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...administrator, a prominent citizen of the Jewish community, Finkelstein was bound to come to grips with Zionism. As a student, he had been attracted by it. But as he grew older, and the political preoccupations of the movement became clearer to him, his zeal for the establishment of a Jewish state began to cool...
...Hellenistic Empire in the 2nd Century B.C. seemed to Finkelstein one of the great failures in Jewish history; so, he felt, would be a modern state established by force. Moreover, if U.S. Jews put as much effort into getting D.P.s admitted to the U.S. as they put into Zionism, he thought, a home could be found in the New World for all the dispossessed Jews of Europe...
...time the Jews began their actual military struggle for Palestine, Louis Finkelstein was definitely a non-Zionist-a stand which looked to Zionists like anti-Zionism. At least one large contributor to the seminary tore up his usual check. Some of the faculty deeply resented Finkelstein's attitude, and when he refused to let the students sing the Israel national anthem at commencement in 1945, on the ground that a political song has no place at a religious ceremony, the seminary nearly split apart...
...American Jew really wants to assimilate, says Daiches, but he feels guilty about it and "gets his assimilationist urge horribly mixed up with the fiercer kind of Zionism ... No one would be more astonished or upset than the American Zionist if out of Zion were really to come forth the Law and Word of the Lord from Jerusalem. He hopes that out of Zion will come forth good Rotarian Israelites and Hebrew-speaking hot-dog sellers...
...Under Cohen's editorial hand, Commentary has devoted a sizable part of its space to Jewish problems. It has printed articles for & against Zionism, though some readers have called it anti-Zionist. Others have even accused it of being too calm about anti-Semitism because it didn't join the popular hoorah over such tracts as the novel Gentleman's Agreement and the movie Crossfire...