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Muhr veröffentlichte 1813 seine Schrift "Jerubaal" als Antwort auf David Friedländers "Ein Wort zu seiner Zeit" (Über die, durch die neue Organisation der Judenschaften in den preußischen Staaten notwendig gewordene, Umbildung). Friedländer hatte zu weitreichenden Reformen in Liturgie und Erziehung aufgerufen als Reaktion auf das Preussische Emanzipationsedikt von 1812. Obwohl Muhr dessen Abkehr von der Tradition ablehnte, schlug er dennoch selber vor, auf manches Althergebrachte zu verzichten und beispielsweise Predigten in deutscher Sprache und Chorgesang im Gottesdienst zu erlauben.
This article unpacks Margarete Susman’s political and theological arguments at the core of her reading of the Book of Job. As I show through a reading of her oeuvre, Susman rejects political projects that she takes to be based on eschatology such as political Zionism. However, Susman should not be viewed merely as a critic of Zionism. I argue that an analysis tuned to the historical circumstances of her writing should recognize her stance on the nation-building project in Palestine as ambivalent rather than antagonistic. Susman’s conception of the Jewish spirit as rooted in self-sacrifice allows her to appreciate the national aspirations at the core of the Zionist project while rejecting Zionism’s exclusion of other Jewish national projects. I contend that Susman’s understanding of Jewish messianism as immanent rather than teleological informs her ambivalence toward Zionism as well as her original vision of Jewish political action. I argue in closing that Susman’s theodicy offers a novel vision for Jewish ethics that is not limited to the historical moment of its formulation. Susman’s theodicy also resonates within contemporary debates on Jewish diaspora in providing a non-centralized vision of Jewish national projects.