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Authors: Sasson Sofer
ISBN-13: 9780521630122, ISBN-10: 0521630126
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 1998
Edition: New Edition
Historical reconstruction of the origins of Zionist ideology demonstrating its influence on Israeli politics.
Preface | ||
Glossary | ||
Pt. I | Setting the scene | |
1 | Ideas and the course of history | 3 |
2 | Israeli society and politics before independence | 10 |
3 | A remarkable and terrible decade | 28 |
Pt. II | Appearances and reality | |
4 | The political world of the founding fathers | 59 |
5 | The vicissitudes of hegemony | 96 |
6 | The revolutionary maximalists | 146 |
7 | The reluctant vanguard | 160 |
8 | The lost avant-garde | 179 |
9 | The Communists - in captivity | 186 |
Pt. III | The fallacies of Realpolitik | |
10 | Jabotinsky and the Revisionist tradition | 199 |
11 | The Revolt | 225 |
12 | The mysticism of realism | 249 |
Pt. IV | Sectarian interests and a facade of generality | |
13 | The General Zionists | 271 |
14 | The farmers and the Sephardi notables | 288 |
Pt. V | God's dispositions | |
15 | Religious nationalism | 299 |
16 | Religious orthodoxy and the cult of separateness | 311 |
Pt. VI | The boundaries of the intelligentsia | |
17 | Canaanites and Semites | 323 |
18 | Magnes, Buber and Ihud (Unity) | 337 |
19 | The divided heritage: Israel's diplomatic tradition | 357 |
Notes | 390 | |
Index | 443 |