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6. Herzl's Ideas | Dr. Derek Penslar

The Podcast of Jewish Ideas

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The Power of Herzl

Herzl is what we would call a floating signifier or a meme in that he can mean anything I mean if you're left wing you say Herzl predicted the labor Zionist values of collective agriculture and in an egalitarian society. If you're on the religious right you can say rather improbably about Herzl that he had a religious reawakening because he went to synagogue before the Zionist Congress, says David Perry.

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