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This volumes engages diverse topics such as art, music, and radio broadcasting in the development of modern Jewish nationalism by leading scholars in their respective fields. It contains richly detailed studies that challenge existing historiography--from personal struggles with nationalism, to the lesser-known origins of the Balfour Declaration, from boisterous demonstrations on the streets of pre-World War I Galicia, to skirmishes between Jews in present-day Jerusalem. It examines how nationalism has worked in theory and practice for Jews and at times been fiercely resisted. Beginning with the memory of Theodor Herzl and his cohort at the London Zionist Congress of 1900, this books revisits the wider scene of Zionism's emergence, as we explore the imagination of, and the attempted national mobilization of Jewry throughout the twentieth century.
With contributions by Aviel Roshwald, Philip Bohlman, Derek Penslar, Barbara Mann, Nachman Ben-Yehuda, James Renton, Joshua Shanes, Michael Löwy, John M. Efron, Delphine Bechtel, Francois Guesnet, Inka Bertz, and Richard A. Freund.
About the Author
Michael Berkowitz, Ph.D. (1989) in History, University of Wisconsin, is Reader in modern Jewish history at University College London. He has published extensively on Zionism, antisemitism and Jewish politics, including Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War (Cambridge, 1993).
Nationalism, Zionism and Ethnic Mobilization of the Jews in 1900 and Beyond (Ijs Studies in Judaica, V. 2),Michael Berkowitz,Brill Academic Publishers,9004131841,20th century,Architecture,Congresses,Ethnic Studies - General,General,History,Identity,Interior Design - General,Jewish nationalism,Jews,Politics/International Relations,Social Science,Zionism
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