The Founding Myths of Israel : : Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State /

The Founding Myths of Israel : : Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State / / Zeev Sternhell.

The well-known historian and political scientist Zeev Sternhell here advances a radically new interpretation of the founding of modern Israel. The founders claimed that they intended to create both a landed state for the Jewish people and a socialist society. However, according to Sternhell, sociali...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
VerfasserIn:
Sternhell, Zeev,
TeilnehmendeR:
Maisel, David.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©1997
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (464 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • A Note on the Transliteration of Hebrew Names and the Translation of Hebrew Book Titles
  • Introduction. Nationalism, Socialism, and Nationalist Socialism
  • Chapter One. The Primacy of the Nation: Aaron David Gordon and the Ethos of Nation-Building
  • Chapter Two. The Worker as the Agent of National Resurrection
  • Chapter Three. Socialism in the Service of the Nation: Berl Katznelson and "Constructive" Socialism
  • Chapter Four. Ends and Means: The Labor Ideology and the Histadrut
  • Chapter Five. The Triumph of Nationalist Socialism: "From Class to Nation"
  • Chapter Six. Democracy and Equality on Trial
  • Epilogue. From the State-in-the-Making to the Nation-State
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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