ABSTRACT
To be sure, Chowers avers, Zionism’s theorists understood this ‘sundered’ moment as deeply
contingent: a ‘window of opportunity’ that would need disciplined organizational-institutional
frameworks, sustained collective effort, and some degree of luck to be capitalized upon. But for
as long as it lasted, sundered history was understood to have produced a fortuitous moment in
which both the need for, and the possibility of, a new kind of Jewish politics could be said to
have emerged.
