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The Multiplicities of Zionism (2018)

Contributor(s): Rachel Fish, Associate Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University
Topics(s): Academia, History, Jewishness / Peoplehood, Zionism and Nationalisms
Date: May 18, 2018

Required Reading

Arthur Hertzberg, The Zionist Idea : A Historical Analysis and Reader, (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1997), ISBN/ISSN: 0827606222

Introduction: pp. 15-100
– Theodor Herzl: “The Jewish State” pp. 204-223
– Max Nordau: “Zionism” pp. 242-245
– Ahad Ha-am: pp.248-277
– David Ben-Gurion: “The Imperatives of the Jewish Revolution” pp.605-619

 

Shlomo Avineri’s The Making of Modern Zionism. “Ben-Gurion: The Vision and the Power” pp. 198-216.

Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s “The Iron Wall”

Essential Israel: Essays for the 21st Century.  Ed. Ilan Troen and Rachel Fish.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2017.


Recommended Readings

Michael Brenner, Zionism: A Brief History . Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishers, 2003.
The Early History of Political Zionism pp. 3-22
An International Nationalism: The Topography of Early Zionism pp. 25-63

Colin Shindler’s The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron.  “An Army of Jews” pp. 50-109.

The Zionist Ideology, Gideon Shimoni. Brandeis University Press, 1995.

Zionism and the Fin de Siecle: Cosmpolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky.  Michael Stanislawski.  Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

 

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