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Leo Strauss completed his intellectual training in Weimar Germany, where Zionism was a consolidated reality and where the phenomenon of “return” ( teshuvah) to Judaism distinguished a large part of the Judeo-German youth, which was dissatisfied with the Jewish status in modernity. This essay aims to identify the philosophical and political path of the young Strauss, which, starting from the crisis of modernity characteristic of Weimar culture, stands out from that of all other Jewish authors (Cohen, Rosenzweig, Buber, Scholem, etc.) and movements ( Wissenschaft des Judentums, political Zionism, cultural Zionism, religious Zionism, etc.) of the early twentieth century in Germany.