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Zionism and the Creation of a New Society »

Authors: Ben Halpern, Jehuda Reinharz
ISBN-13: 9780195092097, ISBN-10: 0195092090
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: June 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Ben Halpern

JEHUDA REINHARZ is Richard Koret Professor of Modern Jewish History and President of Brandeis University. He is author, editor, or coeditor of numerous books, including Zionism and Religion (1998), Essential Papers on Zionism (1995), Chaim Weizmann: The Making of a Statesman (1993), and Israel in the Middle East (1984).

BEN HALPERN (1912 - 90) was Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. Among his studies of the modern Jewish experience are A Clash of Heroes (1987) and The Idea of the Jewish State (1969).

Book Synopsis

Two experts trace the development of the Zionist idea from its earliest expressions up to the birth of the State of Israel.

	Introduction	3
1	The Social Sources of Zionism	8
2	The Setting	25
3	The Yishuv, Old and New	46
4	Settlers and Patrons	59
5	The Conflict of Tradition and Idea	90
6	Zionism and the Left	120
7	The Young Workers	145
8	Growth of the Zionist Parties	172
9	The Hegemony of Labor	196
10	The National Home	229
11	The Transition from Yishuv to State	262
	Notes	273
	A Note on Bibliography	277
	Index	281