Silver and ben-gurion: Two types of leadership

Anita Shapira

doi:10.4324/9780203044537-3

Silver and ben-gurion: Two types of leadership

Anita Shapira^*

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Department of Jewish History

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THE HISTORICAL MEMORY OF NATIONS AND PEOPLES tends to be short. Ben-Gurion, however, has been accorded a well-preserved niche in Israeli collective memory, being inseparable from the foundation myth of the state. Nevertheless, it is doubtful that the name of one of the greatest of leaders to emerge in American Jewry, Abba Hillel Silver, is sustained in the collective memory of modern American Jews. Does this reflect a certain paucity of historical consciousness among American Jews? In this paper, I will contend that the oblivion into which Silver has fallen is the result of his particular mode of leadership, compared with that of BenGurion.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Abba Hillel Silver and American Zionism
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	33-44
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Electronic)	9781136314889
ISBN (Print)	0714643777, 9780714648248
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203044537-3
State	Published - 1 Jan 2012

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