Jewish autonomism

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Jewish autonomism was a non-Zionist political movement that emerged in Eastern Europe in the late 19th / early 20th centuries . One of its most important representatives was the historian and activist Simon Dubnow .

The autonomists believed that the future survival of the Jews as a people depended on their spiritual and cultural strength; they propagated a “spiritual nationality” in which the diaspora was to be developed, a self-government of the Jewish communities, and rejected assimilation .

Different ideas of autonomism were from the Folk Party , the sejmistischen and socialist Jewish parties, such as the federal government adopted the basic features.

Some groups mixed the idea of autonomism with Zionism : They advocated Jewish self-government in the Diaspora until the Diaspora Jews took the Aliyah to their national homeland in Zion .

After the Shoah , the idea of autonomism practically disappeared from Jewish philosophy . In 1941 Simon Dubnow was murdered with thousands of Jews in Rumbula .