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September 10, 2025Nationalities Papers

The Right to Banality: Interwar Jewish Global Thought between Eastern Europe and the Middle East

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JLJames LoefflerJohns Hopkins University

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Analysis of Jewish intellectuals' pursuit of self-determination in Eastern Europe and Palestine, suggesting new frameworks for understanding national identity.

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The article reveals how interwar Jewish intellectuals navigated two distinct roles: national minority in Eastern Europe and majority in Mandatory Palestine.
It examines the efforts of East European Zionist thinkers to construct a transnational identity through international law and national self-determination.
The analysis highlights the complexities of nationhood during the interwar period, relating it to changing global dynamics and Jewish political thought.
This account underscores the limitations and possibilities of Jewish worldmaking in a transformative historical context.

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James Loeffler (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c1a90c54b1d3bfb60e220f https://doi.org/10.1017/nps.2025.10091

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Analysis of Jewish intellectuals' pursuit of self-determination in Eastern Europe and Palestine, suggesting new frameworks for understanding national identity.

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