A history of Zionism /

A history of Zionism /

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Author / Creator:	Laqueur, Walter, 1921-2018.
Imprint:	New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, ©1972.
Description:	xvi, 639 pages : portrait, plates, facs. ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Zionism -- History. Judaism -- History -- Modern period, 1750- Judaism -- Modern period. Zionism. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13165148

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ISBN:	0030916143 9780030916144 0805205233 9780805205237
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 601-615) and index (p. 617-639). committed to retain from JKM Seminaries Library 2023 JKM University of Chicago Library
Summary:	Examines the development of Zionist thought, and its inherent link with the growth of antisemitism in the 19th century. Argues that while there were clearly other factors, antisemitism was a major element in the emergence of Zionism. Discusses the Zionist view of antisemitism as the result of the Jews' anomolous social and economic structure in the diaspora. Notes the growth of Zionist youth movements in Germany as a reaction to antisemitic movements. Points out that the lack of help given to Jews during the Holocaust gave Zionism a great impetus at the end of the Second World War. However, it was also felt that the idea of a Jewish state had lost its "raison d'etre" as a haven for persecuted European Jews. Zionist leaders had anticipated persecutions and expulsions, but not mass murder as a solution to the "Jewish problem." Discusses theories on antisemitism of major Zionist thinkers: Moses Hess, Max Lilienblum, Leo Pinsker, Max Nordau, Chaim Weizmann, and Ze'ev Jabotinsky.

Table of Contents:

Part One
1. Out of the Ghetto
2. The Forerunners
3. Theodor Herzl
4. The Interregnum
Part Two
5. The Unseen Question
6. Building a New Society: The Progress of Left-wing Zionism
7. In Blood and Fire: Jabotinsky and Revisionism
8. Zionism and its Critics
Part Three
9. The Weizmann Era
10. European Catastrophe
11. The Struggle for the Jewish State
Conclusion: Thirteen Theses on Zionism.