Heterodox Zionism

Orr Scharf

doi:10.30752/nj.155407

Heterodox Zionism

Orr Scharf

MA Program in Cultural Studies

University of Haifa

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This article seeks to show the contiguity of the theoretical and practical modes of a position I call Dissident Zionism as generated by a mood that three of its formulators, Martin Buber, Hugo Bergman and Gershom Scholem, shared in relation to Jews' presence in Palestine: disenchantment. The article begins by exploring some of the relevant resonances of the term and moves on to present the individual forms of disenchantment in Buber's, Bergman's and Scholem's critiques of Statist Zionism, as straddling the theoretical and practical modes of political theology.

Original language	English
Journal	Nordisk Judaistik
Volume	37
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.30752/nj.155407
State	Published - 23 Jun 2026

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Cultural Studies
History
Anthropology
Religious studies

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