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1 online resource (648 pages) |
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monochrome |
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text file |
| Note |
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1959. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
An anthology of writings of 37 leading thinkers of the Zionist movement, including Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha-Am, Martin Buber, Louis Brandeis, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Judah Magnes, Max Nordau, Ludwig Lewisohn, Solomon Schechter, Mordecai Kaplan, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Chaim Weizmann, and David Ben-Gurion. |
| Contents |
Part 1: Precursors -- 1. Rabbi Yehudah Alkalai 1798-1878 -- The third redemption (1843) -- 2. Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer 1795-1874 -- Seeking Zion (1862) -- A natural beginning of the redemption -- The holiness of labor on the land -- 3. Moses Hess 1812-1875 -- A. Rome and Jerusalem (1862) -- My way of return -- German anti-Semitism and Jewish assimilation -- The reawakening of the nations -- What is Judaism? -- The mission of Israel -- The nation as part of humanity -- The Sabbath of history -- Toward the Jewish restoration -- B. Comments -- Jewish creativity -- Prejudice and dogma and the restoration -- A change of spirit -- Social regeneration -- A spiritual center. |
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Part 2: Outcry in Russia -- the 1870's and 1880's -- 1. Peretz Smolenskin 1842-1885 -- It is time to plant (1875-1877) -- Let us search our ways (1881) -- The Haskalah of Berlin (1883) -- 2. Eliezer Ben-Yehudah 1858-1923 -- A letter of Ben-Yehudah (1880) -- 3. Moshe Leib Lilienblum 1843-1910 -- The way of return (1881) -- Let us not confuse the issues (1882) -- The future of our people (1883) -- 4. Leo Pinsker 1821-1891 -- Auto-emancipation: an appeal to his people by a Russian Jew (1882). |
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Part 3: Headlong into the world arena -- Theodor Herzl appears -- 1. Theodor Herzl 1869-1904 -- A. First entry in his diary (1895) -- B. The Jewish state (1896) -- Preface -- (1.) Introduction -- (2.) The Jewish question -- Previous attempts at a solution -- Cause of anti-Semitism -- Effects of anti-Semitism -- The plan -- Palestine or Argentina? -- (3.) Conclusion -- C. First congress address (1897) -- D. After a mass meeting in the east end (1896) -- 2. Max Nordau 1849-1923 -- Speech to the first Zionist congress (1897) -- Zionism (1902). |
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Part 4: The Agnostic Rabbi -- Ahad Ha-Am -- 1. Ahad Ha-Am (Asher Zvi Ginsberg) 1856-1927 -- The law of the heart (1894) -- Flesh and spirit (1904) -- On nationalism and religion (1910) -- The Jewish state and the Jewish problem (1897) -- The negation of the Diaspora (1909) -- 2. Hayyim Nahman Bialik 1873-1934 -- Bialik on the Hebrew University (1925). |
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Part 5: Rebels at their most defiant -- 1. Micah Joseph Berdichevski 1865-1921 -- Wrecking and building (1900-1903) -- In two directions (1900-1903) -- The question of culture (1900-1903) -- The question of our past (1900-1903) -- On sanctity (1899) -- 2. Joseph Hayyim Brenner 1881-1921 -- Self-criticism (1914) -- 3. Jacob Klatzkin 1882-1948 -- Boundaries (1914-1921) -- Judaism is nationalism -- A nation must have its own land and language -- Assimilation is possible -- The Galut is unworthy of survival -- The Galut must be preserved long enough to be transcended -- The national renaissance and personal dignity. |
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Part 6: The Zionism of Marxist and Utopian socialists -- 1. Nahman Syrkin 1867-1924 -- The Jewish problem and the socialist-Jewish state (1898) -- (1) Jews and Gentiles -- (2) Emancipation and Anti-Semitism -- (3) Jews and socialism -- (4) Zionism -- (5) The socialist-Jewish state -- 2. Ber Borochov 1881-1917 -- The national question and the class struggle (1905) -- Our platform (1906) -- 3. Aaron David Gordon 1856-1922 -- Logic for the future (1910) -- People and labor (1911) -- Some observations (1911) -- Our tasks ahead (1920) -- Yom Kippur (1921) -- Final reflections (1921) -- 4. Berl Katzenelson 1887-1944 -- Revolution and tradition (1934). |
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Part 7: Religious nationalists, old and new -- 1. Rabbi Samuel Mohilever 1824-1898 -- Message to the first Zionist Congress (1897) -- 2. Yehiel Michael Pines 1842-1912 -- On religious reforms (1868-1871) -- The religious idea -- Methods in reform -- Jewish nationalism cannot be secular (1895) -- Religion is the source of Jewish nationalism (1895) -- Jews will accept hardship only in the Holy Land (1892) -- 3. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook 1865-1935 -- The land of Israel (1910-1930) -- The war (1910-1930) -- The rebirth of Israel (1910-1930) -- Lights for rebirth (1910-1930) -- 4. Samuel Hayyim Landau 1892-1928 -- Toward an explanation of our ideology (1924) -- 5. Judah Leon Magnes 1877-1948 -- "Like all the nations?" (1930) -- 6. Martin Buber 1887-1965 -- The Jew in the world (1934) -- Hebrew humanism (1942) -- From an open letter to Mahatma Gandhi (1939). |
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Part 8: Intellectuals in search of roots -- 1. Bernard Lazare 1865-1903 -- Jewish nationalism and emancipation (1897-1899) -- 2. Edmond Fleg 1874-1963 -- Why I am a Jew (1927) -- 3. Ludwig Lewisohn 1883-1955 -- A year of crisis (1933). |
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Part 9: In the new world -- 1. Richard James Horatio Gottheil 1862-1936 -- The aims of Zionism (1898) -- 2. Solomon Schechter 1847-1915 -- Zionism: A statement (1906) -- 3. Louis Dembitz Brandeis 1856-1941 -- The Jewish problem and how to solve it (1915) -- 4. Horace Mayer Kallen 1882-1974 -- Jewish life is national and secular (1918) -- Zionism and liberalism (1919) -- Jewish unity (1933) -- 5. Mordecai Menahem Kaplan born 1881 -- The future of the American Jew (1948). |
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Part 10: Ideologists in action -- 1. Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan (Berlin) 1880-1949 -- What kind of life should we create in Eretz Israel? (1922) -- 2. Vladimir Jabotinsky 1880-1940 -- Evidence submitted to the Palestine Royal Commission (1937) -- 3. Chaim Weizmann 1874-1952 -- Zionism needs a living content (1914) -- Reminiscences (1927) -- On the report of the Palestine Commission (1937) -- 4. Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver 1893-1963 -- Toward American Jewish unity (1943) -- American Jewry in war and after (1944) -- 5. David Ben-Gurion 1886-1973 -- The imperatives of the Jewish Revolution (1944). |
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| Subject |
Zionism -- History -- Sources.
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Zionism. |
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History. |
| Indexed Term |
Geschichte |
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Sources.
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| Indexed Term |
Zionism History Sources |
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hertzberg, Arthur.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zionist idea. Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, ©1997 (DLC) 96049372 (OCoLC)35986300 |
| ISBN |
9780827612310 (electronic book) |
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0827612311 (electronic book) |
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0827606222 (paperback) |
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9780827606227 (paperback) |
