History Of Zionism

This handbook and dictionary aims to provide the reader with a general overview of Zionist history and historiography, to tabulate all data on Zionism, and to gather in one source as many terms dealing directly or indirectly with Zionism and Jewish nationalism as possible.

Autorentext
Abraham J. Edelheit is director of the Morehset Zvi Institute for Jewish Communal Affairs and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of history at Kingsborough Community College. Abraham has served as a consultant to the Presidential Commission on Holocaust Asstes in the United States and is presently Historian in Residence at the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. An active scholar, he is the author or co-author of ten books on Jewish and European history, including History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and Dictionary . The late Hershel Edelheit a Holocaust survivor, was director of ERICH, a nonprofit research and educational institute dedicated to studying the twentieth-century Jewish experience.

Inhalt
Part 1: History of Zionism 1. Land and State in Jewish Tradition 2. Early Glimmerings of Rebirth 3. The Rise of Political Zionism 4. From Herzl to Balfour 5. The Rise of a Jewish Polity 6. Zionism and Jewish Communal Politics 7. Zionism, Arabism, and the British 8. In the Shadow of the Holocaust 9. War and Catastrophe 10. Revolt and Rebirth Part 2: Dictionary of Zionist Terms