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https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.17234/RadoviZHP.55.31

Zionist Activities of the Young Erich Fromm (Summary)

Domagoj Akrap

Abstract

Erich Fromm was a popular social theorist and psychoanalyst, well known for books like Art of Lovin or To Have or to Be, written in the USA after World War II. Less known are his post-World War I texts which were written in German during his high school and student years. Brought up in an orthodox GermanJewish family, Fromm joined the Zionist movement early in his life whereupon he began to publish shorter texts in German Zionist student magazines. Among the texts were reports from Zionist meetings, programatic texts and criticisms of the state in which the youth movement currently found itself. A more accurate analysis of these texts clearly shows, that, even then, as an active member in the Zionist youth movement, Fromm supported the same principles of authentic life and social justice, he stood for in his later work. Fromm considered these principles primordial Jewish values. After he ceased living an orthodox Jewish life, he continued to apply the same principles to man in general and thus became one of the most influential humanistic thinkers of his day.

Keywords

Erich Fromm, Zionism, Germany, student movement, Jewish thought

Hrčak ID:

316312

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/316312

Publication date:

20.4.2024.

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