Secular Judaism: Berdyczwski, Brenner, and Brinker

With the emergence of Jewish nationalism in the late 19th century the formula `the Jewish nation is a nation only because its laws’, which bundled the religious and ethnic component in defining Judaism and Jewish identity, began to undermine. From now on without worrying about the thread that ties them to their ancestors, some nationalist thinkers could adopt the European enlightenment’s radicalism and to question about the authority and biding force of Jewish tradition. Against this background the aim of this lecture is on one hand to draw the Jewish secularism that following the realization of the political Zionist vision designed Menachem Brinker and on the other hand to indicate its relation to the thought of Berdyczwski and Brenner that their creation he researched until his final days.