The Need for West: Hans Kohn and the North Atlantic Community
In the writing of historian Hans Kohn (1891—1971) East and West were never geographic locations, but rather geographic metaphors. They were ideas, which served as his major tool of analysis throughout his career: in Habsburg Prague as a young spiritual Zionist; in Jerusalem in the 1920s as a ‘bi-nat...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0022009410383297 2024-06-23T07:55:04+00:00 The Need for West: Hans Kohn and the North Atlantic Community Gordon, Adi 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022009410383297 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0022009410383297 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journal of Contemporary History volume 46, issue 1, page 33-57 ISSN 0022-0094 1461-7250 journal-article 2011 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009410383297 2024-06-04T06:28:29Z In the writing of historian Hans Kohn (1891—1971) East and West were never geographic locations, but rather geographic metaphors. They were ideas, which served as his major tool of analysis throughout his career: in Habsburg Prague as a young spiritual Zionist; in Jerusalem in the 1920s as a ‘bi-national Zionist’; as comparative historian of nationalism as of the second world war; and finally as an American Cold Warrior. This article situates the evolution of Kohn’s notions of East and West in a primarily Jewish context, and toward a Cold War horizon. It also seeks to illuminate the genealogy of the ideas he propagated as a notable purveyor of Cold War ideology, particularly the need for a ‘New West’. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic SAGE Publications Journal of Contemporary History 46 1 33 57 |
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In the writing of historian Hans Kohn (1891—1971) East and West were never geographic locations, but rather geographic metaphors. They were ideas, which served as his major tool of analysis throughout his career: in Habsburg Prague as a young spiritual Zionist; in Jerusalem in the 1920s as a ‘bi-national Zionist’; as comparative historian of nationalism as of the second world war; and finally as an American Cold Warrior. This article situates the evolution of Kohn’s notions of East and West in a primarily Jewish context, and toward a Cold War horizon. It also seeks to illuminate the genealogy of the ideas he propagated as a notable purveyor of Cold War ideology, particularly the need for a ‘New West’. |
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