Herzlian

comparative more Herzlian · superlative most Herzlian

1. Zionist.

   Reflecting on the weaknesses of the nation-system in central and eastern Europe, Arendt saw in Herzlian Zionism a recipe for repeating these follies in Palestine.

   2003, Seyla Benhabib, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt, →ISBN, page 44

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   For all my disdain for Herzlian liberalism, religious Zionisms (those that combine statism with religion, whether Orthodox or not. e.g., blood and soil mysticism of the Right and Left) are even more problematic to me and. given the actual situation of the populations of Pelestine/Israel today, more delterious.

   2000, Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, The Pre-occupation of Postcolonial Studies, →ISBN, page 261

   Resistance to Herzlian political Zionism in Russia displayed the familiar dichotomy between Jewish existence in the East and the West: a dichotomy between an almost intact community with living traditions and a Westernized, relatively emancipated Jewish culture that engaged in political action to substitute for its vanishing national identity.

   2008, Klara Moricz, Jewish Identities, →ISBN

plural Herzlians

1. A Zionist.

   There exists a vast literature advancing this criticism of Herzl's activities and of the Herzlians.

   1958, Raphael Patai, Herzl Year Book, page 16

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   Like the Herzlians, they wanted to reform Jewry and alter the Jewish condition; but the target that presented itself to them was the Diaspora which they distinguished in their minds from Jewry and Judaism in some proper, unencumbered, pristine state.

   1986, Sam N. Lehman-Wilzig, Bernard Susser, Comparative Jewish Politics

   For the Herzlians, anti-Semitism constituted the central problem to be confronted, and a Jewish state was the one honorable solution.

   2000, David C. Hammack -, Making the Nonprofit Sector in the United States: A Reader, →ISBN, page 218