Nationalism, Zionism and ethnic mobilization of the Jews in 1900 and beyond / edited by Michael Berkowitz.

European, US, and Israeli historians and social scientists try to skirt the political controversies involved in the origin of Israel to offer academic perspectives on Jewish nationalism, of which Zionism comprised a prominent alternative beginning in the late 19th century. They look in particular at...

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Other Authors: Berkowitz, Michael
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
Series:IJS studies in Judaica ; v. 2.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 1900 to 2000 and Beyond: Taking Nationalism for Granted?; Jewish Identity and the Paradox of Nationalism; Before Hebrew Song; Radio and the Shaping of Modern Israel, 1936-1973; The Archaeology of Memory on Tel-Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard; The Way to a Halachic State: Theocratic Political Extremism in Israel; Reconsidering Chaim Weizmann and Moses Gaster in the Founding Mythology of Zionism; Fort mit den Hausjuden! Jewish Nationalists Engage Mass Politics; Jewish Nationalism and Libertarian Socialism in the Writings of Bernard Lazare; The Zionist World of Arnold Zweig.