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This superb and highly nuanced study traces the development and ramifications of the ideology of Zionism from its roots in Europe to its full flowering in the establishment of the State of Israel. Gideon Shimoni begins by carefully outlining the social origins of Zionism, including its debt to European nationalism and its subsequent emergence in the 1880s, precipitated by the pogroms in the Russian Empire. He then describes the various streams of...

Traces the history of Israel, detailing such events as the beginnings of Zionism, the two decades of growth, the 1967 Six Day War and the six-year aftermath, the Likud revolution of 1977-83, and the peace process of 1992-96.

Paul Merkley draws on the published literature of the World Council of Churches, the Middle East Council of Churches, the Roman Catholic Church, and other Christian organizations that have an interest in the question of Israel's past, present, and future, and on interviews with numerous key figures within the government of Israel, spokesmen for the Palestine Authority, and leaders of all the major pro and anti-Zionist Christian organizations to demonstrate...

In 1995, Robert Barsky met with Noam Chomsky to discuss his work in-progress, Noam Chomsky: A Life of Dissent (MIT Press, 1997). Chomsky told Barsky that he should focus his attention instead on midcentury linguist and activist Zellig Harris, who was, Chomsky modestly insisted, more interesting than Chomsky himself. Intrigued, Barsky began to research Harris (190901992) and discovered the story of a major figure in American intellectual life "sitting...

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Presents a collection of documents and excerpts from books and articles relating to Jewish history from the mid-17th to the mid-20th centuries. Includes many items dealing with antisemitism and the Holocaust - see ch. 7, "Political and Racial Antisemitism", and ch. 11, "The Holocaust". Ch. 8, "East European Jewry", contains items on anti-Jewish legislation in Russia, the Kishinev pogrom in 1903, and the Beilis trial.

Clark explores the 400 year history of this powerful political ideology from its beginnings among the Puritans of 17th century England to the present-day United States, where Christian Zionists wield unprecedented influence.

"A stunningly original look at the forgotten Jewish political roots of contemporary international human rights, told through the moving stories of five key activists The year 2018 marks the seventieth anniversary of two momentous events in twentieth-century history: the birth of the State of Israel and the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Both remained tied together in the ongoing debates about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....