Professor Allan Arkush

Allan Arkush is Professor of Judaic Studies and History at the State University of New York in Binghamton. He is the author of Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment, the translator of Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem, and the Senior Contributing Editor of the Jewish Review of Books.

His articles on modern Jewish thought and Zionism include:

“Antiheroic Mock Heroics: Daniel Boyarin versus Theodor Herzl and his Legacy,” in
Jewish Social Studies, Fall 1998, pp. 65-93.

“The Jewish State and its Internal Enemies: Yoram Hazony versus Martin Buber and his ‘Ideological Children,’” in Jewish Social Studies, vol. 7, no. 2, Winter 2001, pp. 169-190.

“Rethinking Zion and Modernity” in Jewish Social Studies, vol. 9.1, Fall 2002,
pp. 143-163.

“Biblical Criticism and Cultural Zionism Prior to the First World War,” Jewish History, vol. 21, no. 2, June 2007, pp. 121-158.

“Theocracy, Liberalism, and Modern Judaism,” in Review of Politics, vol. 71, no. 4, September 2009, pp. 637-658.

From Diaspora Nationalism to Radical Diasporism,” in Modern Judaism. Vol. 29, no. 3, October 2009, pp. 326-350.

“The Secular Jewish Thought of Michael Walzer,” in Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, Fall 2012, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 225-245.