The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel »

Gabriel Piterberg teaches history at UCLA, and has taught at St Antony’s and Balliol Colleges, Oxford. His previous books include An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play. He writes for the New Left Review and the London Review of Books.

Leading Israeli scholar with a major re-evaluation of Zionism.

Ch. 1 The Sovereign Settler versus the Conscious Pariah: Theodor Herzl and Bernard Lazare 1

Ch. 2 The Zionist Colonization of Palestine in the Comparative Context of Settler Colonialism 51

Ch. 3 The Foundational Myth of Zionism: Politics, Ideology and Scholarship 93

Ch. 4 Myth and History on Mount Scopus 127

Ch. 5 Gerhard-Gershom Scholem's Return to History 155

Ch. 6 The Bible, the Nakba and Hebrew Literature 192

Ch. 7 The Bible of an Autochthonous Settler: Ben-Gurion Reads the Book of Joshua 244

Index 289