Shlomo Avineri: 2 books
Herzl's Vision
Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
Theodor Herzl had been a successful Viennese journalist and a less successful playwright with no political ambitions. That changed in 1896, when he published The Jewish State. In response to the wide resonance that the book received, Herzl convened the first Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland,...
The Making of Modern Zionism
The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
An expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism, now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970s
For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europe was this yearning transformed...