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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherBrandeis University Press
ISBN-100874517036
ISBN-139780874517033
eBay Product ID (ePID)755543
Product Key Features
Number of Pages528 Pages
Publication NameZionist Ideology
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1995
SubjectMiddle East / Israel & Palestine, Jewish Studies, Jewish
TypeTextbook
AuthorGideon Shimoni
Subject AreaSocial Science, History
FormatLibrary Binding
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN9435-000265
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal320.5/4/095694
SynopsisWinner of the Arnold Wiznitzer Prize, Hebrew University. This superb and highly nuanced study traces the development and ramifications of the ideology of Zionism from its roots in Europe to its full flowering in the establishment of the State of Israel. Gideon Shimoni begins by outlining the social origins of Zionism, including its debt to European nationalism and its subsequent emergence in the 1880s, precipitated by the pogroms in the Russian Empire. He then describes the various streams of Zionist thought, and concludes by examining both Zionism's connection with a secular Jewish identity and the nature of the Jewish claim to Eretz Israel. Throughout this comprehensive survey, Shimoni illuminates Zionism's common thread: the underlying axiom "that the Jews are a single, distinctive, entity possessing national, not just religious, attributes."