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May 2021
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France-Italy
288 pp. Interlink Press. $20
Daphna Levit’s new book, “Wrestling with Zionism: Jewish Voices of Dissent,” offers a concise introduction to 20 major Jewish critics of political Zionism since its inception in the 1890s. The book is a treasure trove of anti-Zionist zingers. On a deeper level, the presentation of these dissenters as an ensemble shows how difficult it has been, even for such independent-minded individuals, to entirely escape the gravitational pull of Zionism. Deeper yet, the book shows that, after more than a century, Zionism can’t be salvaged – the idea of a Jewish State must be abandoned.
Some of the most withering attacks on Zionism, in fact, have come from Jews who nevertheless retained a Zionist perspective. Levit astutely takes note of her subjects’ moments of ambivalence, letting us see, for example, that Martin Buber, a towering existentialist philosopher and theologian, and Ahad Ha’am, who bitterly denounced early Zionist treatment of the indigeno