The making of modern Zionism : intellectual origins of the Jewish state /
Delineates a number of aspects of Zionist thought, as expressed through the writings of selected central nineteenth and twentieth century individuals. Avineri presents a history of Zionist thought through profiles of some of Zionism's major thinkers. Each chapter is devoted to a specific person...
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New York :
Basic Books,
2017.
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| Edition: | Updated with a New Preface and Epilogue. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Zionism as a revolution
- Krochmal : the hegelianization of Jewish history
- Graetz : revolutionizing Jewish historical consciousness
- Moses Hess : socialism and nationalism as a critique of bourgeois society
- Alkalai and Kalischer : between tradition and modernity
- Smolenskin : from enlightenment to nationalism
- Lilienblum : the crisis of Jewish enlightenment in Russia
- Pinsker : from emancipation to autoemancipation
- Ben Yehuda : language and nation
- Herzl : the breakthrough
- Nordau : the Jews and the crisis of western civilization
- Ahad Ha'am : the spiritual dimensions of the Jewish state
- Syrkin : nationalism and class conflict
- Borochov : Zionist Marxism
- Gordon : labor and redemption
- Jabotinsky : integralist nationalism and the illusion of power
- Rabbi Kook : the dialectics of redemption
- Ben Gurion : the vision and the power
- Epilogue : Zionism as a permanent revolution.