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Article: Central European intellectuals in Palestine.
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- Judaism
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
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To discuss the fate of Central Europeans in Palestine, their demographics and their problems of acculturation as well as their scholarly contributions, would in itself be an interesting task, but this essay has a much more specific focus: a singular group of Central European intellectuals who shared a certain Zionist vision, and whose enthusiasm and commitment had carried them to Palestine already in the 1920s. While there are not one but many Zionist narratives, this particular Zionism played a leading role in the creation of the Hebrew University-though its long-range influence is more difficult to capture. As Martin Buber put it, looking backwards, this group of men ...