Modernism and Zionism

by D. Ohana

Overview

Part of Palgrave's Modernism and ... series, Modernism and Zionism explores the relationship between modernism and the Jewish national ideology, the Zionist movement, which was operative in all areas of Jewish art and culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230290129
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/10/2012
Series:	Modernism and...
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	199
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

DAVID OHANA Professor of Modern European History who specializes in comparative national mythologies. He has been affiliated with the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Paris-Sorbonne, Harvard University, and the University of California at Berkeley. He teaches at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and he is a Senior Fellow at the Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism. The most recent of his many publications are Political Theologies in the Holy Land (Routledge 2009), the trilogy The Nihilist Order (Sussex 2009 -2010), Israel and Its Mediterranean Identity (Palgrave-Macmillan 2011), and The Origins of Israeli Mythology (Cambridge 2012).

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface vi

Introduction: Modernity, Modernism and Modernisation in Zionism 1

1 The Myth of Zarathustra: Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem and the Nationalisation of Jewish Myth 29

2 The Myth of Prometheus: Zionism and the Modernisation of Messianism 80

3 The Myth of Nimrod: 'Canaanism' between Zionism and Post-Zionism 122

Bibliography 179

Index 196