The Making of Modern Zionism: Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State
By Shlomo Avineri.
Description
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 philosophy advocating the creation of the Jewish state in Palestine. In this exciting new history of the Zionist idea, the author rejects the common propaganda view--Zionist as well as anti-Zionist--which regards Zionism as solely a reaction to anti-Semitism and persecution. Rather, he sees it as another part of the universal quest for self-determination. In eighteen sharply etched intellectual ...
ISBN(s)
0465043283, 9780465043286
