The Invention of a Nation: Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israel,9780231127660

The Invention of a Nation: Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israel

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ISBN13: 9780231127660
ISBN10: 0231127669
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-04-01
Publisher(s): Columbia Univ Pr
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Summary

For two centuries, according to Alain Dieckhoff, the Jews were remarkable experimenters. Reacting to the challenge of modernity, Jews followed two, often torturously contradictory paths -- the path of assimilation (bourgeois or socialist) and that of nationalism.This book provides a comprehensive overview of the various ideologies that have constituted Zionism, ranging from Marxist-Zionism to National Religious Zionism to that of the far-right Abba Achimeir. Unlike other studies of the topic, this book makes explicit the debt the Zionists owed to French thinkers and European ideologues, notably those associated with the French Revolution and the Enlightenment.

Author Biography

Alain Dieckhoff is a senior research fellow at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI) in Paris.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements vii
Glossary x
Introduction: Zionism as the political invention of a nation 1(12)
The political beginnings of Zionism
13(37)
The Messengers of Zion: towards Messianic realism
13(10)
The constraints of anti-Semitism
23(6)
Theodor Herzl, the herald of the state
29(21)
Socialist Zionism: from community to state
50(48)
Praise of Anarchist prophecy
51(7)
Illusory Marxism, or the poverty of theory
58(8)
Dionysian Zionism: belief in Pantheism
66(14)
Class, nation, state: the Holy Trinity of Socialist Zionism
80(18)
Hebrew, the language of the nation
98(30)
Language as a political issue
98(7)
The paradoxes of the Haskala
105(5)
Hebrew, the womb of the nation
110(9)
The crisis of the intelligentsia and the rise of Zionism
119(9)
From condemnation to praise: Orthodox Jewry and Zionism
128(47)
Religion and nationalism
128(5)
Three responses to the shaking of tradition
133(5)
The guardians of the City of God
138(6)
For the political sovereignty of God
144(7)
Under the banner of religious nationalism
151(10)
The Rav Kook and the mystique of paradox
161(14)
By blood and fire: The diehard nationalism of the Zionist Right
175(73)
Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky, Father of the Zionist Right
175(2)
Liberalism within strict limits
177(13)
National messianism
190(5)
Saving the self of the individual and of the nation
195(5)
Organic nationalism
200(12)
Force at the heart of politics
212(5)
Politics is a struggle
217(10)
1930-1949: The Generation of Revolt
225(2)
Deliverance through violence
227(3)
Right-wing revolutionaries
230(11)
The totalitarian temptation
241(7)
Political life through Zionism: a precarious victory
248(21)
The political as a sign of the fall
251(6)
The state at the heart of Jewish political modernity
257(5)
The search for rational politics
262(7)
Postscript: Israel at the dawn of the twenty-first century: between neo Zionism and post Zionism
269(22)
Three forms of post Zionism
273(8)
In defence of Zionism
281(10)
Index 291

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