Rafał Becker: psychiatrist, eugenist, Zionist.

Parenthood and Race Culture

Dr. Saleeby, whose excursion into journalistic medicine as an upholder of a so-called cancer-cure may readily be pardoned him in consideration of his really valuable later work, calls himself a eugenist, and as such has written a book on parenthood and race culture which should be a real help to those who are trying to solve the social problem in its complicated moral relation to human society....

Zionist Internationalism through Number Theory: Edmund Landau at the Opening of the Hebrew University in 1925

This article gives the background to a public lecture delivered in Hebrew by Edmund Landau at the opening ceremony of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1925. On the surface, the lecture appears to be a slightly awkward attempt by a distinguished German-Jewish mathematician to popularize a few number-theoretical tidbits. However, quite unexpectedly, what emerges here is Landau’s personal ble...

Religious Roots of a Political Ideology: Judaism and Christianity at the Cradle of Zionism

Albeit overtly secular, Zionist ideology was inspired by religious thought. While traditional religions often supported the nationalist cause, the relationship of Judaism and Zionism is vastly different. Adepts of traditional Judaism immediately rejected Zionism, and this rejectionist attitude has not vanished to this day. On the other hand, Christian, mainly Protestant theologians had develope...

Politicized Historiography and the Zionist-Crusader Analogy

Matthias J. Becker - article (Vienna) final

Within society and public discourse, antisemitism is still perceived as emanating predominantly from the political Right. However, reactions to the Six-Day War in 1967 demonstrated the falsity of this assumption. Anti-Zionist attitudes spread in German public discourse, notably among the New Left. Although the left attempts to distance itself from antisemitism, it nevertheless justifies the rep...