The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State

by Shlomo Avineri

Book Overview

An expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism, now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970s For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europe was this yearning transformed into an active political movement: Zionism. In The Making of Modern Zionism , the distinguished political scientist Shlomo Avineri rejects the common view...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465094791
• ISBN13: 9780465094790
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"