
The Invention of a Nation: Zionist Thought and the Making of Modern Israel (Hardback)
Alain Dieckhoff (author), Jonathan Derrick (translator)
£54.00
Hardback
320 Pages /
Published: 30/11/2002
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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.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231127660
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 510 g
Dimensions: 219 x 162 x 22 mm
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Dieckhoff most impressively incorporates modern scholarship from diverse disciplines into his erudite analysis of Zionist ideas. -- Harold M. Waller An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies
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