http://jewishquarterly.org A magazine of contemporary writing, politics & culture Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:51:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://jewishquarterly.org/2009/02/resisting-the-demonic-forces-of-nationalism/ http://jewishquarterly.org/2009/02/resisting-the-demonic-forces-of-nationalism/#comments Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:51:08 +0000 Christian Wiese http://heroic-media.com/jq/?p=9 According to Robert Weltsch, the Zionist intellectual and politician, the most important question was whether the Jews would be ‘capable of defending the spiritual values that form the basis of its existence against the tide of nihilism’ and of contrasting the Nazi ideology with a humanist Jewish version of nationalism based on justice and coexistence with other nations. Please Login or Register to read the rest of this content.

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