Nationalism, Zionism and Ethnic Mobilization of the Jews in 1900 and Beyond (IJS Studies in Judaica)

333 Pages·2003·45.079 MB·English

by  Berkowitz (editor)

NATIONALISM,ZIONISM AND ETHNIC MOBILIZATION
OF THEJEWS IN 1900AND BEYOND
IJS STUDIES INJUDAICA
Coriference Proceedings
of of
the Institute Jewish Studies,
University College London
SERIES EDITORS
MARK GELLER
ADA RApOPORT-ALBERT
JOHN KLIER
VOLUME 2

Nathan Birnbaum- who traversed theJewish political landscape ofhistime- isfront-and
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NATIONALISM, ZIONISM AND
ETHNIC MOBILIZATION OF
THEJEWS IN 1900 AND BEYOND
EDITEDBY
MICHAEL BERKOWITZ
BRILL
LEIDEN .BOSTON
2004
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CONTENTS
Introduction: 1900 to 2000 and Beyond: Taking
Nationalism for Granted? .
Michael Berkowitz (University College London)
Jewish Identity and the Paradox of Nationalism II
Aviel Roshwald (Georgetown University)
Before Hebrew Song 25
Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago)
Radio and the Shaping of Modern Israel, 1936~1973 61
DerekJonathan Penslar (University of Toronto)
The Archaeology of Memory on Tel-Aviv's Rothschild
Boulevard 83
Barbara Mann (Princeton University)
The Way to a Halachic State: Theocratic Political
Extremism in Israel 99
Nachman Ben-Yehuda (Hebrew University)
Reconsidering Chaim Weizmann and Moses Gaster in
the Founding Mythology of Zionism 129
James Renton (University College London)
Fort mit den Hausjuden! Jewish Nationalists Engage Mass
Politics 153
Joshua Shanes (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Jewish Nationalism and Libertarian Socialism in the
Writings of Bernard Lazare 179
Michael Lowy (Sorbonne)
The Zionist World of Arnold Zweig 191
John M. Efron (University of California, Berkeley)
Vlll CONTENTS
The Russian Jewish Intelligentsia and Modern Yiddish
Culture 213
Delphine Bechtel (Universite Paris IV)
Chanukah and its Function in the Invention of a
Jewish-Heroic Tradition in Early Zionism, 1880-1 900 ...... 227
Francois Guesnet (Simon-Dubnow-Institute, Leipzig)
Trouble at the Bezalel: Conflicting Visions of Zionism
and Art 247
Inka Bertz (Jewish Museum, Berlin)
The Mystery of the Menorah and the Star 285
Richard A. Freund (University of Hartford)
Notes on the Contributors 305
Index 307