The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State Updated Edition Contributor(s): Avineri, Shlomo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0465094791 ISBN-13: 9780465094790 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $17.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Jewish - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Nationalism & Patriotism - History | Middle East - Israel & Palestine |
Dewey: 956.940 |
LCCN: 2017930727 |
Lexile Measure: 1490 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.55 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: An expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism, now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970s For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europe was this yearning transformed into an active political movement: Zionism. In The Making of Modern Zionism, the distinguished political scientist Shlomo Avineri rejects the common view that Zionism was solely a reaction to anti-Semitism and persecution. Rather, he sees it as part of the universal quest for self-determination. In sharply-etched intellectual profiles of Zionism's major thinkers from Moses Hess to Theodore Herzl and from Vladimir Jabotinsky to David Ben Gurion, Avineri traces the evolution of this quest from its intellectual origins in the early nineteenth century to the establishment of the State of Israel. In an expansive new epilogue, he tracks the changes in Israeli society and politics since 1967 which have strengthened the more radical nationalist and religious trends in Zionism at the expense of its more liberal strains. The result is a book that enables us to understand, as perhaps never before, one of the truly revolutionary ideas of our time. |