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The Zionist idea : a historical analysis and reader /

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-Guri...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hertzberg, Arthur
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society, ©1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • 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).
  • 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).