The Zionist Idea: A Historical Analysis and Reader

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A classic since its initial publication in 1959, The Zionist Idea is an anthology of writings by the leading thinkers of the Zionist movement, including Theodor Herzl, Ahad Ha-Am, Martin Buber, Louis Brandeis, Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, Judah Magnes, Max Nordau, Mordecai Kaplan, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Chaim Weizmann, and David Ben-Gurion.

Acknowledgments

(1)

Introduction

(86)

Part 1: Precursors

101

(40)

Rabbi Yehudah Alkalai 1798-1878

102

(6)

The Third Redemption (1843)

105

(3)

Rabbi ZVI Hirsch Kalischer 1795-1874

108

(8)

Seeking Zion (1862)

111

(5)

A Natural Beginning of the Redemption

111

(2)

The Holiness of Labor on the Land

113

(3)

Moses Hess 1812-1875

116

(25)

Rome and Jerusalem (1862)

119

(22)

My Way of Return

119

(1)

German Anti-Semitism and Jewish Assimilation

120

(1)

The Reawakening of the Nations

121

(2)

What is Judaism?

123

(4)

The Mission of Israel

127

(1)

The Nation as Part of Humanity

128

(2)

The Sabbath of History

130

(2)

Toward the Jewish Restoration

132

(2)

Comments

134

(1)

Jewish Creativity

134

(1)

Prejudice and Dogma and the Restoration

135

(1)

A Change of Spirit

135

(1)

Social Regeneration

136

(2)

A Spiritual Center

138

(3)

Part 2: Outcry in Russia---the 1870's and 1880's

141

(58)

Peretz Smolenskin 1842--1885

142

(16)

It is Time to Plant (1875-1877)

145

(1)

Let us Search Our Ways (1881)

146

(8)

The Haskalah of Berlin (1883)

154

(4)

Eliezer Ben-Yehudah 1858-1923

158

(8)

A Letter of Ben-Yehudah (1880)

160

(6)

Moshe Leib Lilienblum 1843-1910

166

(12)

The Way of Return (1881)

168

(2)

Let us Not Confuse the Issues (1882)

170

(3)

The Future of our People (1883)

173

(5)

Leo Pinsker 1821-1891

178

(21)

Auto-Emancipation: An Appeal to His People by a Russian Jew (1882)

181

(18)

Summary

198

(1)

Part 3: Headlong into the World Arena---Theodor Herzl Appears

199

(48)

Theodor Herzl 1860--1904

200

(32)

First Entry in His Diary (1895)

204

(1)

The Jewish State (1896)

204

(22)

Preface

204

(3)

Introduction

207

(8)

The Jewish Question

215

(2)

Previous Attempts at a Solution

217

(1)

Causes of Anti-Semitism

218

(1)

Effects of Anti-Semitism

219

(1)

The Plan

220

(2)

Palestine or Argentina?

222

(1)

Conclusion

223

(3)

First Congress Address (1897)

226

(5)

After a Mass Meeting in the East End (1896)

231

(1)

Max Nordau 1849-1923

232

(15)

Speech to The First Zionist Congress (1897)

235

(7)

Zionism (1902)

242

(5)

Part 4: The Agnostic Rabbi---Ahad Ha-Am

247

(42)

Ahad Ha-Am (Asher ZVI Ginsberg) 1856--1927

248

(30)

The Law of The Heart (1894)

251

(5)

Flesh and Spirit (1904)

256

(5)

On Nationalism and Religion (1910)

261

(1)

The Jewish State and the Jewish Problem (1897)

262

(8)

The Negation of the Diaspora (1909)

270

(8)

Hayyim Nahman Bialik 1873-1934

278

(11)

Bialik on The Hebrew University (1925)

281

(8)

Part 5: Rebels at Their Most Defiant

289

(40)

Micah Joseph Berdichevski 1865--1921

290

(14)

Wrecking and Building (1900--1903)

293

(2)

In Two Directions (1900--1903)

295

(2)

The Question of Culture (1900--1903)

297

(2)

The Question of Our Past (1900--1903)

299

(2)

On Sanctity (1899)

301

(3)

Joseph Hayyim Brenner 1881--1921

304

(10)

Self-Criticism (1914)

307

(7)

Jacob Klatzkin 1882--1948

314

(15)

Boundaries (1914--1921)

316

(13)

Judaism is Nationalism

316

(2)

A Nation Must Have Its Own Land and Language

318

(2)

Assimilation Is Possible

320

(2)

The Galut Is Unworthy of Survival

322

(1)

The Galut Falsifies Our National Character

322

(1)

The Galut is Corrupting Our Human Character and Dignity

323

(1)

The Galut Must Be Preserved Long Enough to be Transcended

324

(1)

The National Renaissance and Personal Dignity

325

(4)

Part 6: The Zionism of Marxist and Utopian Socialists

329

(68)

Nahman Syrkin 1867--1924

330

(22)

The Jewish Problem and The Socialist-Jewish State (1898)

333

(19)

Jews and Gentiles

333

(3)

Emancipation and Anti-Semitism

336

(4)

Jews and Socialism

340

(5)

Zionism

345

(4)

The Socialist-Jewish State

349

(3)

Ber Borochov 1881--1917

352

(16)

The National Question and the Class Struggle (1905)

355

(5)

Our Platform (1906)

360

(8)

Aaron David Gordon 1856--1922

368

(20)

Logic For the Future (1910)

371

(1)

People and Labor (1911)

372

(3)

Some Observations (1911)

375

(4)

Our Tasks Ahead (1920)

379

(4)

Yom Kippur (1921)

383

(1)

Final Reflections (1921)

384

(4)

Berl Katzenelson 1887--1994

388

(9)

Revolution and Tradition (1934)

390

(7)

Part 7: Religious Nationalists, Old and New

397

(70)

Rabbi Samuel Mohilever 1824--1898

398

(8)

Message to the First Zionist Congress (1897)

401

(5)

Yehiel Michael Pines 1842--1912

406

(10)

On Religious Reforms (1868--1871)

409

(2)

The Religious Idea

409

(1)

Methods in Reforms

410

(1)

Jewish Nationalism Cannot be Secular (1895)

411

(1)

Religion is the Source of Jewish Nationalism (1895)

412

(2)

Jews Will Accept Hardship Only in The Holy Land (1892)

414

(2)

Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook 1865--1935

416

(16)

The Land of Israel (1910--1930)

419

(3)

The War (1910--1930)

422

(2)

The Rebirth of Israel (1910--1930)

424

(3)

Ligths For Rebirth (1910--1930)

427

(5)

Samuel Hayyim Landau 1892--1928

432

(8)

Toward an Explanation of Our Ideology (1924)

434

(6)

Judah Leon Magnes 1877--1948

440

(10)

``Like All the Nations?'' (1930)

443

(7)

Martin Buber 1887--1965

450

(17)

The Jew In the World (1934)

453

(4)

Hebrew Humanism (1942)

457

(6)

From an Open Letter to Mahatma Gandhi (1939)

463

(4)

Part 8: Intellectuals in Search of Roots

467

(26)

Bernard Lazare 1865--1903

468

(10)

Jewish Nationalism and Emancipation (1897--1899)

471

(7)

Edmond Fleg 1874--1963

478

(8)

Why I am a Jew (1927)

480

(6)

Ludwig Lewisohn 1883--1955

486

(7)

A Year of Crisis (1933)

488

(5)

Part 9: In the New World

493

(52)

Richard James Horatio Gottheil 1862--1936

494

(8)

The Aims of Zionism (1898)

496

(6)

Solomon Schechter 1847--1915

502

(12)

Zionism: A Statement (1906)

504

(10)

Louis Dembitz Brandeis 1856--1941

514

(10)

The Jewish Problem and How To Solve It (1915)

517

(7)

Horace Mayer Kallen 1882--1974

524

(10)

Jewish Life is National and Secular (1918)

526

(2)

Zionism and Liberalism (1919)

528

(3)

Jewish Unity (1933)

531

(3)

Mordecai Menahem Kaplan born 1881

534

(11)

The Future of the American Jew (1948)

536

(9)

No Jewish Homeland without Judaism in the Diaspora

536

(3)

The Negation of Jewish Life in the Diaspora

539

(2)

The Need of a Twofold Norm for Jewish Life

541

(1)

Educational Aim in Terms of Tradition and Social Structure

542

(3)

Part 10: Ideologists in Action

545

(76)

Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan (Berlin) 1880--1949

546

(10)

What Kind of Life Should we Create in Eretz Israel? (1922)

548

(8)

Vladimir Jabotinsky 1880--1940

556

(16)

Evidence Submitted to the Palestine Royal Commission (1937)

559

(13)

Chaim Weizmann 1874--1952

572

(18)

Zionism Needs A Living Content (1914)

575

(3)

Reminiscences (1927)

578

(5)

On the Report of the Palestine Commission (1937)

583

(7)

Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver 1893--1963

590

(14)

Toward American Jewish Unity (1943)

592

(8)

American Jewary in War and After (1944)

600

(4)

David Ben-Gurion 1886--1973

604

(17)

The Imperatives of the Jewish Revolution (1944)

606

(15)

Afterword

621

(16)

Notes

637

(9)

A Note on Sources

646

(1)

Sources

647

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