Routledge Handbook on Zionism

Introduction

Colin Shindler

The Genesis of the Zionist Idea

1. The Pangs of Exile and the Birth of the Zionist Idea

Arieh Saposnik

Part One: Understanding Zionism

2. Zionism in the Arab World before 1948

Tom Würdemann

3. The Meaning of Zionism after 1948: An American Zionist Understanding

Zohar Segev

4. The Ben-Gurion Perspective: The Diaspora and the Meaning of Zionism during Israel's First Decade

Adi Sherzer and Ofer Schiff

Part Two: The Debates Within

Jewishness: Between Religion and Secularism

5. Jewish Secular Zionist Identity: Ahad Ha’am the Polemicist

Gideon Katz

6. Religious Zionism: Tradition, History and Identity

Avi Sagi and Dov Schwartz

The Ascent of Socialism-Zionism

7. David Ben-Gurion’s Leadership and Zionist Fulfillment

Meir Chazan

8. The Kibbutz: The Interplay of Ideological Concepts and Historical Circumstances

Aviva Halamish

Nationalism, Liberalism and Authoritarianism

9. Rightward Bound: Jabotinsky, Ahimeir, Stern and the Leadership of Zionism’s Right during the Mandate

Brian Horowitz

10. The Zionist Right: From a Centrifugal to a Centripetal Movement, 1925 – 1965

Amir Goldstein

Part Three: Ideological Rivals

11. Marxism and Zionism: Entangled Roads

Tom Navon

12. Bundism and Zionism before World War II: Divergent Alternatives

Roni Gechtman

13. The Origins and Evolution of Haredi anti-Zionism

Motti Inbari

14. Yonatan Ratosh, Adya Horon and Canaanism

Roman Vater

15. Jewish Territorialism and ‘Other Zions’

Laura Almagor

Part Four: Building a Cultural Zion

16. The Cultural Origins of Zionism

Yitzhak Conforti

17. Hebrew and Yiddish: The Language War

Naomi Brenner

18. Hebrew Poets and Poetry of Zion: From the Bible to 1948

David Aberbach

19. Film, Zionism, and the Early Pioneers of Cinema

Rachel S. Harris

Part Five: Women in Zion

20. With Her Head Held High: Ada Fishman Maimon, A Relentless Labor-Zionist Feminist Bat-Sheva Margalit Stern

21. Gender Paradoxes: The Struggle for Women's Suffrage in pre-State Israel (1917 – 1926)

Margalit Shilo

22. From the Songs of Zion: Lea Goldberg

Ofra Yeglin

Part Six: Zionism in Repressive States

Nazism and Fascism

23. The Reaction to Zionism in Mussolini’s Italy: The Case of Left-Wing Political Parties

Alessandra Tarquini

24. A National Movement under Persecution: Zionism in Nazi Germany

Guy Miron

The USSR and the Soviet Bloc

25. Subterranean Zionism in Stalin's Soviet Union

Boris Morozov

26. The Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland after 1967

Marcin Szydzisz

The Muslim World

27. Zionism in the Ayatollahs' Iran

Meir Litvak

28. Zionism in Iraq 1920-1951: From Jewish Nationalism to Mass Immigration

Esther Meir-Glitzenstein

South Africa

29. Zionism between Afrikaner Nationalism and Apartheid

Milton Shain and Richard Mendelsohn

Part Seven: Old Christianity and New Judaism

Christian Zionism

30. ‘What can resist the will of England in Palestine?’: Christian Zionism in Britain before the Balfour Declaration

Peter Bergamin

31. Prophecy, Jews, and Politics: US Evangelicals and Christian Zionism

Yaakov Ariel

New Jews and Zionism

32. Zionism and the New Jews

Tudor Parfitt

Part Eight: Twenty-First Century Episodes

33. Hegemony Struggles in Israel

Uri Ram

34. Images of Zionism in the Age of the Internet

Matthias J. Becker and Matthew Bolton

35. “We are a Traditional People”: The Zionist (Counter-) Revolution of National Conservative Populism

Gayil Talshir

Biography

Colin Shindler is Emeritus Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He became the first Professor of Israel Studies in the UK in 2008 and was the founding chairman of the European Association of Israeli Studies (EAIS) in 2009. He is the author of thirteen books, including Israel: A History in 100 Cartoons (2023).

"This is an extraordinarily rich collection of essays on Zionism in all its known aspects and its little-known dimensions as well. It should be in the library of anyone with an interest in a movement that stands out as one of the transformative forces of recent history."

Alan Dowty, Past President, Association for Israel Studies

"In the volume edited by Colin Shindler, the authors skilfully navigate the intricacies of Zionism. They offer a fresh and insightful characterization of its different facets, internal tensions, and disputes with other ideological currents of Jewish thought. The Handbook may serve as an invaluable resource for scholars, students, and anyone seeking a nuanced understanding of Zionism's foundations, evolution, and contemporary relevance."

Artur Skorek, Chair, European Association of Israel Studies and Adjunct Professor, Jagiellonian University, Kraków

"Colin Shindler’s Routledge Handbook on Zionism features both established and new authors writing original essays on familiar and neglected but significant issues. This is a welcome and innovative contribution that unfailingly enlightens even those who have read deeply into the subject."

S. Ilan Troen, Lopin Chair of Modern History, emeritus, Ben-Gurion University and Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies, emeritus, Brandeis University

"A ground-breaking work which shines a light on the many faces of Zionism, providing context to the current Israel/Palestine debates."

Suzanne D. Rutland, OAM, Professor Emerita, University of Sydney