American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust

by Melvin I. Urofsky

Book Overview

Theodore Herzl, a Vienna journalist, realized that anti-Semitism, dramatically illustrated by the Dreyfus Affair in 1890s France, would never be stemmed by the attempts of Jews to assimilate. The publication of his Der Judenstaat in 1896 began the political movement for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. It caught on in Europe but was moribund in the United States until World War I. Melvin I. Urofsky shows how the Zionist movement was Americanized by...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385036396
• ISBN13: 9780385036399
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Length: 538 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.