The most comprehensive Zionist collection ever published, The Zionist Ideas: Visions for the Jewish Homeland—Then, Now, Tomorrow sheds light on the surprisingly diverse and shared visions for realizing Israel as a democratic Jewish state. Building on Arthur Hertzberg’s classic, The Zionist Idea, Gil Troy explores the backstories, dreams, and legacies of more than 170 passionate Jewish visionaries—quadruple Hertzberg’s original number, and now including women, mizrachim, and others—from the 1800s to today.
Troy divides the thinkers into six Zionist schools of thought—Political, Revisionist, Labor, Religious, Cultural, and Diaspora Zionism—and reveals the breadth of the debate and surprising syntheses. He also presents the visionaries within three major stages of Zionist development, demonstrating the length and evolution of the conversation. Part 1 (pre-1948) introduces the pioneers who founded the Jewish state, such as Herzl, Gordon, Jabotinsky, Kook, Ha’am, and Szold. Part 2 (1948 to 2000) features builders who actualized and modernized the Zionist blueprints, such as Ben-Gurion, Berlin, Meir, Begin, Soloveitchik, Uris, and Kaplan. Part 3 showcases today’s torchbearers, including Barak, Grossman, Shaked, Lau, Yehoshua, and Sacks.
This mosaic of voices will engage equally diverse readers in reinvigorating the Zionist conversation—weighing and developing the moral, social, and political character of the Jewish state of today and tomorrow.
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Topic
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Middle Eastern HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Donor Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PART 1. PIONEERS
- 1. Political Zionism
- Peretz Smolenskin
- Leon Pinsker
- Theodor Herzl
- Max Nordau
- Jacob Klatzkin
- Chaim Weizmann
- Natan Alterman
- Albert Einstein
- 2. Labor Zionism
- Moses Hess
- BILU
- Joseph Hayyim Brenner
- Nahman Syrkin
- Ber Borochov
- Aaron David Gordon
- Rachel Bluwstein
- Berl Katznelson
- Rahel Yanait Ben-Zvi
- 3. Revisionist Zionism
- The Union of Zionists-Revisionists
- Ze’ev Jabotinsky
- Saul Tchernichovsky
- The Irgun
- Avraham (Yair) Stern
- Haim Hazaz
- 4. Religious Zionism
- Yehudah Alkalai
- Samuel Mohilever
- Isaac Jacob Reines
- Abraham Isaac Kook
- Moshe “Kalphon” HaCohen
- Meir Bar-Ilan (Berlin)
- 5. Cultural Zionism
- Eliezer Ben-Yehudah
- Ahad Ha’am (Asher Zvi Ginsberg)
- Hayyim Nahman Bialik
- Micah Joseph Berdichevski
- Martin Buber
- 6. Diaspora Zionism
- Solomon Schechter
- Louis Dembitz Brandeis
- Henrietta Szold
- Horace Mayer Kallen
- Stephen S. Wise
- Milton Steinberg
- PART 2. BUILDERS
- 7. Political Zionism
- Israel’s Declaration of Independence (1948)
- David Ben-Gurion
- The Law of Return (1950)
- Isaiah Berlin
- Abba Eban
- Teddy Kollek
- Chaim Herzog
- Albert Memmi
- Yonatan (Yoni) Netanyahu
- Elie Wiesel
- Natan Sharansky
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Martin Peretz
- 8. Labor Zionism
- Golda Meir
- Muki Tsur
- Amos Oz
- Roy Belzer
- The Members of Kibbutz Ketura
- Yaakov Rotblit
- Leonard Fein
- Yitzhak Rabin
- Shimon Peres
- Shulamit Aloni
- 9. Revisionist Zionism
- Uri Zvi Greenberg
- Geulah Cohen
- Moshe Shamir
- Menachem Begin
- Yitzhak Shalev
- Eliezer Schweid
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- 10. Religious Zionism
- Ben-Zion Meir Chai Uziel
- David Edan
- Joseph Ber Soloveitchik
- Yeshayahu Leibowitz
- Zvi Yehuda Hakohen Kook
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
- Esther Jungreis
- Talma Alyagon-Roz
- Eliezer Berkovits
- Gush Emunim
- David Hartman
- Commission on the Philosophy of Conservative Judaism
- Richard Hirsch
- Ovadia Yosef
- 11. Cultural Zionism
- Haim Hefer
- A. M. Klein
- Leon Uris
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon
- Naomi Shemer
- Yehudah Amichai
- Gershon Shaked
- Letty Cottin Pogrebin
- Anne Roiphe
- 12. Diaspora Zionism
- Arthur Hertzberg
- Mordecai M. Kaplan
- Rose Halprin
- Jacob Blaustein
- Simon Rawidowicz
- Irving “Yitz” Greenberg
- Eugene Borowitz
- Herman Wouk
- Arnold Jacob Wolf
- Hillel Halkin
- Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin
- Alex Singer
- Blu Greenberg
- PART 3. TORCHBEARERS
- 13. Political Zionism
- Michael Oren
- Tal Becker
- Michael Walzer
- Aharon Barak
- Yael “Yuli” Tamir
- Ze’ev Maghen
- Daniel Gordis
- Leon Wieseltier
- Irwin Cotler
- Gadi Taub
- Bernard-Henri Lévy
- Asa Kasher
- 14. Labor Zionism
- Anita Shapira
- Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir
- Ruth Gavison
- Einat Wilf
- Chaim Gans
- David Grossman
- Nitzan Horowitz
- Alon Tal
- Peter Beinart
- Ari Shavit
- Stav Shaffir
- 15. Revisionist Zionism
- Yoram Hazony
- Shmuel Trigano
- Israel Harel
- Caroline Glick
- Ruth Wisse
- David Mamet
- Ze’ev B. “Benny” Begin
- Reuven Rivlin
- Ayelet Shaked
- 16. Religious Zionism
- Daniel Polisar
- Benjamin Ish-Shalom
- Eliezer Sadan
- Yaacov Medan
- Yehuda Amital
- Benjamin “Benny” Lau
- Yedidia Z. Stern
- Leah Shakdiel
- Arnold Eisen
- David Ellenson
- 17. Cultural Zionism
- Gil Troy
- Yair Lapid
- Micah Goodman
- Ronen Shoval
- A. B. Yehoshua
- Erez Biton
- Bernard Avishai
- Saul Singer
- Sharon Shalom
- Einat Ramon
- Adam Milstein
- Rachel Sharansky Danziger
- 18. Diaspora Zionism
- Jonathan Sacks
- Alan Dershowitz
- Yossi Beilin
- Scott Shay
- Donniel Hartman
- Yossi Klein Halevi
- Ellen Willis
- Theodore Sasson
- Central Conference of American Rabbis
- The World Zionist Organization
- Source Acknowledgments
- Sources
- Series List
- About Gil Troy
- About Natan Sharansky
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