Ours is an age shaped by identity debates. This publication focuses on works by Martin Buber, Aharon Gordon, and Ber Borochov, and asks how these authors construed Jewish-Zionist identity in the midst of global notions of nation, religion, and esotericism each in their own way. This exploration of processes of identity building illustrates the struggles over tradition and reform, even in early Zionism.

Fabian Freiseis, Heidelberg University, Germany.