Yitzhak Conforti

Gebundenes Buch

Zionism and Jewish Culture

A Study in the Origins of a National Movement

Beschreibung

Zionism and Jewish Culture offers a fresh cultural perspective on Zionism, highlighting the dominant role of pre-modern Jewish culture on the modern Jewish national movement. The book investigates the history, politics and Zionist vision of the pre-state period. These issues are still relevant, thus enabling a deeper understanding of Zionism and Israel today.

Autor

Yitzhak Conforti is Associate Professor in the Koschitzky Department of Jewish History at Bar Ilan University. He is the author of: Past Tense - Zionist Historiography and the Shaping of the Zionist Memory (2006) and Shaping A Nation - The Cultural Origins of Zionism, 1882-1948 (2019). He was a research fellow in the Katz Center at U-Penn, a visiting scholar at NYU and the CJH, New York, and a visiting research scholar at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University. He has published extensively on modern Jewish historiography, Zionist history and culture, Jewish nationalism and Zionism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 678g
• ISBN-13: 9798887196374
• Artikelnr.: 71251438