![]() ![]() Gordis compares the legacies of two Russian Jews who each embarked on language-creation projects in the 1880s, Ludwig Zamenhof (1859–1917) and Eliezer Perlman (1858–1922). ![]() Both Schulman and Gordis use the case of modern-day Israel to support their disparate worldviews. Daniel Gordis, at the other end of the spectrum, presents in The Promise of Israel a case against fashionable one-worldism. Sarah Schulman, author of Israel/Palestine and the Queer International, is so repelled by the notion of patriotism that she prefers to identify her abode as New York rather than the United States. Perhaps they take the lyrics of John Lennon’s much celebrated song a little too seriously: The nation-state concept long ago lost its allure for many of those on the Left. Israel/Palestine and the Queer Internationalĭuke University Press, 2012, 208 pages, US$22.95 The Promise of Israel (Why Its Seemingly Greatest Weakness Is Actually Its Greatest Strength) ![]()
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