Authors: Ben Halpern, Jehuda Reinharz
ISBN-13: 9781584650232, ISBN-10: 1584650230
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Brandeis University Press
Date Published: April 2000
Edition: 1st Edition
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).
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 |