"Israel was not someone’s colony in the sense meant. It doesn’t and didn’t have a metropole."
Can we stretch things a bit and say the Torah and the mythos of David, Solomon, and Jerusalem (or with added post Babylon adjustments?) played a metropole-like role, even when Jews resided in ghetto or middle class circumstances aroun…
"Israel was not someone’s colony in the sense meant. It doesn’t and didn’t have a metropole."
Can we stretch things a bit and say the Torah and the mythos of David, Solomon, and Jerusalem (or with added post Babylon adjustments?) played a metropole-like role, even when Jews resided in ghetto or middle class circumstances around the world? It would have provided sustaining moral and psychological resources even if it did not provide material or military ones?
Great essay.
"Israel was not someone’s colony in the sense meant. It doesn’t and didn’t have a metropole."
Can we stretch things a bit and say the Torah and the mythos of David, Solomon, and Jerusalem (or with added post Babylon adjustments?) played a metropole-like role, even when Jews resided in ghetto or middle class circumstances around the world? It would have provided sustaining moral and psychological resources even if it did not provide material or military ones?