ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 follows Avraham (Avrum) Burg (b. 1955), a prominent centrist Israeli politician who served as the Speaker of the Knesset and head of the Jewish Agency, but who later became a post-Zionist. The chapter begins by discussing his first ideological change, when he departed during the 1970s from Religious Zionism, the ideology of his upbringing. Later, in the 2000s, at the height of his career as an Israeli politician, he decided to quit politics, leaving mainstream Zionism to become a post-Zionist. The chapter places Burg in the broader context of the identity crisis of German Jews in the twentieth century and highlights Burg’s complex relationship with his father, who was a prominent Religious-Zionist politician, as the key to understanding his many transformations.
