Toward a Rooted Universalism

Toward a Rooted Universalism In the early 1920s, Jerusalem was a city charged with possibility and conflict in equal measure. The British Mandate had replaced four centuries of Ottoman rule. Jewish immigrants were arriving from Eastern Europe in increasing numbers, driven by persecution and by a dream: to rebuild a Jewish national home in the ancient land of Israel. Zionism was not merely a political program; it was an act of civilizational imagination—the attempt to create, from the fragment...