Description
Book SynopsisThe book analyses the ideological and philosophical basis of Zionism, i.e. how Zionism solved the most important problems of Jews in the last decades of the 19th century: the problem of assimilation, the philosophical principles of national identity, the idea of self-liberation and the conception of the Jewish state. Another problem discussed in this book is how the religious idea of "Return to Zion" became both philosophical and political goals. All considerations are based on the analysis of the source texts of the protagonists and founders of Zionism (Hess, Pinsker, Herzl and Nordau). Zionism is also shown in the perspective of its strength and weakness, as well as its importance for Jewishness in general.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Introduction
Chapter I.
Moses Hess and the Shabbat of History
Messianic Mission
New Anti-Semitism
Jews as Revivers of the Nations
Judaism: Religion of the Future
The Basis of the Jewish Reform
Historic Mission of Jews
The Project of the Jewish State
Chapter II.
Leo Pinsker and the Jewish Self-Emancipation
Pinsker’s Path to Emancipation
The Issue of the “Jewish Question”
Jews as a Nation
Anti-Semitism and Its Philosophical Basis
The Project of Self-Emancipation
Chapter III.
Theodor Herzl: We want to have our state!
New Jewish Politics and Philosophy
The Zionist Idea: A Philosophical Utopia?
The “Jewish Question”
Solution to the “Jewish Question”
New Anti-Semitism
The Jewish State: The Plan
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Chapter IV.
Max Nordau: We, the Jewish Nation
The Jewish People
The Jewish Patriotism
Anti-Semitism Against the Jews
Zionism: New Jewish Philosophy
The Final Solution to the “Jewish Question”
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of names
Index of subjects
