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ZIONIST INTERNATIONALISM? ALFRED ZIMMERN’S POST-RACIAL COMMONWEALTH*

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TOMOHITO BAJI
TOMOHITO BAJI*
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This essay analyses Alfred Zimmern's scheme for a global British Commonwealth. A prominent British liberal internationalist and leading early scholar of International Relations, Zimmern developed an anti-racial account of empire and international order. In conceptualizing a British Commonwealth, he sought to replace “race” with “nation” as the basic ontological category of world ordering. The idea of cultural Zionism, formulated by Ahad Ha’am, played a key role in Zimmern's attempt. Ahad Ha’am's account of non-statist Jewish nationalism served as a useful ideological device for Zimmern to theorize a multinational Commonwealth without acknowledging colonial demands for self-determination. The essay also shows that Horace Kallen's notion of American cultural pluralism helped Zimmern to consolidate his project for the post-racial empire.

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Modern Intellectual History , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , November 2016 , pp. 623 - 651
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My special thanks to Duncan Bell and three anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on earlier drafts of this article. I also thank participants in Graduate Conference Oxbridge Critical Exchanges (organized by Dana Mills and Or Rosenboim, June 2013) and Tohoku University Political Science Workshop (chaired by Hajime Inuzuka, July 2013).

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24 Ibid., 52; Zimmern, “The Passing of Nationality,” 96; Zimmern, “Nationalism and Internationalism,” 84 (italics in original).

25 Zimmern, “Nationality and Government,” 54.

26 Zimmern, “True and False Nationalism,” 78; Zimmern, “Education, Social and National,” 124.

27 Zimmern, “Nationality and Government,” 53.

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32 Ibid., 86–7.

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35 Zimmern, “German Culture,” 20.

36 For Zimmern's criticism of Muir's Nationalism and Internationalism (1916), which he believed insisted on the dissolution of empires into discrete nation states, see Zimmern, “The Passing of Nationality,” 93–4. Cf. Muir, Ramsay, Nationalism and Internationalism: The Culmination of Modern History (London, 1916)Google Scholar.

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41 Zimmern, “German Culture,” 1.

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54 Zimmern and Sacher were undergraduate classmates at New College and Simon was a fellow at Balliol in the 1900s, when Zimmern remained at New College as a lecturer and tutorial fellow. Stapleton, Julia, “Alfred Zimmern and the World ‘Citizen-scholar’,” in Stapleton, , Political Intellectuals and Public Identities in Britain since 1850 (Manchester, 2001), 91–111, at 98Google Scholar.

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57 Zimmern, “Theodor Herzl and the Jewish Renaissance,” The Outlook, 23 Sept. 1905, 395–6, at 395.

58 Ibid., 396. At the time Zimmern criticized the 1905 British Aliens Act as an anti-Semitic law and explored a way of eliminating a sense of discrimination against Jews, which he deemed widespread among the public. To his mind, attaining this demanded that Jews become “patriotic British citizens” while also standing “patriotic Jews” as adherents of Jewish culture. Ahad Ha’am's idea, presented in “Imitation and Assimilation,” appears to have offered him an inspiration for thinking out how these dual attachments could be achieved. Zimmern, , “The Alien's Act: A Challenge” (drafted 1905), Economic Review, 21/2 (1911), 187–97, at 195–6. I analyse “Imitation and Assimilation” belowGoogle Scholar.

59 For instance, he introduced Zimmern to Brandeis in 1912. Letter from Kallen to Brandeis, 18 April 1912, MS Zimmern, BOL, Box 13, folio 146. The correspondence between Kallen and Zimmern indicates that in the 1910s, Zimmern played a part in the liaison between Weizmann, on the one hand, and Kallen and other American Zionists on the other. Horace Kallen Papers, AJA, Box 32, Folder 20, passim.

60 Letter from Zimmern to Lippmann, 30 March 1917, MS Zimmern, BOL, Facsimiles, c. 118, folios 110–11.

61 According to Brandeis's letter to Zimmern in 1917, he read Zimmern's book during the winter of 1913–14. In this letter he also stated that alongside Gilbert Murray's The Bacchae of Euripides, “The Greek Commonwealth has given me more pleasure than any other book read within the last ten years.” Letter from Brandeis to Zimmern, 21 July 1917, MS Zimmern, Box 15, folios 73–4. I thank my colleagues Diane Barlee and Peter Walsh for their help in transcribing Brandeis's letter.

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65 Zimmern, “The Passing of Nationality,” 98. The Balfour Declaration stated, “His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.” Schneer, Jonathan, The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab–Israeli Conflict (London, 2010), 341 Google Scholar.

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71 Ibid., 113–14.

72 Ibid., 112, 115–16 (emphasis in original).

73 Ibid., 117.

74 Ibid., 118–19.

75 Zipperstein, Elusive Prophet, 80.

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80 Letter from Zimmern to Kallen, 12 April 1914, Horace Kallen Papers, AJA, Box 32, Folder 20, folios 47–52.

81 Ibid., folio 50.

82 Zimmern, “Introduction,” vii.

83 Zionist Organisation, “Proceedings at Meeting, August 19th, 1919,” folio 188. Landman was the chairperson.

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87 In the case of the non-Jewish peoples, he excluded the need to reinvigorate national cultures in their home countries.

88 Zimmern, “The Passing of Nationality,” 96–7. For a similar passage see Zimmern, “True and False Nationalism,” 84.

89 Morefield, Covenants without Swords, 168–70.

90 Zimmern, “Nationality and Government,” 51; Zimmern, “Education, Social and National,” 118, 123–4.

91 Zimmern, “Nationalism and Internationalism,” 93.

92 Horace Kallen, “Democracy versus the Melting-Pot: Part I,” The Nation, 100/2590 (18 Feb. 1915), 190–94, at 194 (italics in original). I investigate this article further in the next section.

93 Zimmern, “True and False Nationalism,” 79.

94 Kallen was born in Berenstadt, a town in the German province of Silesia (now in Poland). His father was an Orthodox rabbi from Latvia. Kallen's family emigrated to Boston, the United States, when he was a child. German and Yiddish, though, remained his first languages. Schmidt, Sarah, Horace M. Kallen: Prophet of American Zionism (Brooklyn, 1995), 20–1Google Scholar.

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111 Zimmern, “True and False Nationalism,” 78–9.

112 Ibid., 79, 81–3. The letters Zimmern sent to his family during the 1911–12 journey in the United States also demonstrate his aversion to racial discrimination against the “negroes” as well as the “yellows.” Towards the end of the journey, having witnessed racial abuses by white inhabitants in southern Texas, he indignantly wrote to his mother, “I hope nobody will ever call me their ‘white brother’ again.” Letter from Zimmern to his mother, 4 March 1912, MS Zimmern, BOL, Box 8, folio 254.

113 Letter from Zimmern to Kallen, 12 April 1914, Horace Kallen Papers, AJA, Box 32, Folder 20, folios 49–50.

114 Zimmern, “Education, Social and National,” 123.

115 For Curtis's scheme of an imperial federation see Gorman, Imperial Citizenship, 40–76.

116 Zimmern, “The Passing of Nationality,” 96 (italics in original).

117 Ibid.

118 Ibid., 95.

119 Zimmern, “The Future of American Civilization,” The Nation and the Athenaeum, 17 May 1924, contained in MS Zimmern, BOL, Box 177, folio 199.

120 Pianko, “Cosmopolitan Wanderer,” 236. For the rich diversity of early twentieth-century Zionism and its subsequent loss see also Stanislawski, Michael, Zionism and the Fin de Siècle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky (Berkeley, CA, 2001)Google Scholar.

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122 This work underwent three editions until 1934 with little change in its substance.

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128 Ibid., 82–3.

129 Ibid., 67, 84.

130 Ibid., 140, 142–3.

131 Ibid., 138. See also ibid., 76, for his endorsement of Frederick Lugard's The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa (Edinburgh, 1922), which justified British colonial rule in sub-Saharan Africa.

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