>Zionism and History
מידע נוסף
מו"ל:
שנה:
1987
דאנאקוד:
45-151046
ISBN:
0–312–89885–1
עמודים:
332
שפה:
משקל:
620 גר'
כריכה:
כריכה קשה

Zionism and History

The Rise of a New Jewish Consciousness

תקציר
The radical transformation of the Jews during the last century has not ceased to arouse curiosity. Once a widely scattered, mostly isolated and rather backward, and often despised minority-group, Jews have risen in the world. Today they are an advanced and outgoing sector of western society, which having established themselves as a sovereign nation in their ancient homeland. 
What is the difference between Jewry and Judaism? Are Jews an ethnic minority, a religious community, a political entity? This book faces such issues by depicting their historical background and analyzing their intellectual underpinnings. Thus Zionism at the turn of the century is presented as a thorough-going renaissance movement that changed Jewish life from within, and transformed the relations between the Jews and the outside world.