Podcast: Daniel Gordis & Asael Abelman on the Personality of the New Jew

Before the state of Israel was founded, some early Zionists argued not only for the recovery of Jewish political sovereignty, but also for the emergence of a new type of Jew. This “New Jew,” as they called it, would be free of Judaism’s bookish habits and the weight of Diaspora Jewish history and be able to take the reigns of the newly independent Jewish polity.