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The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel

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Availability:In StockContributor:Gabriel PiterbergPublish date:2008-06-01Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781844672608ISBN-10:1844672603UPC:9781844672608Book Category:History, Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Middle East, Jewish Studies, JewishBook Topic:Israel & PalestineSize:9.17 x 6.19 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCK5E762E7
In this original and wide-ranging study, Gabriel Piterberg examines theideology and literature behind the colonization of Palestine, from the latenineteenth century to the present. Exploring Zionism's origins in Central-EasternEuropean nationalism and settler movements, he shows how its texts can beplaced within a wider discourse of western colonization. Revisiting the work ofTheodor Herzl and Gershom Scholem, Anita Shapira and David Ben-Gurion, andbringing to light the writings of lesser-known scholars and thinkersinfluential in the formation of the Zionist myth, Piterberg breaks openprevailing views of Zionism, demonstrating that it was in fact unexceptional, expressing a consciousness and imagination typical of colonial settlermovements. Shaped by European ideological currents and the realities ofcolonial life, Zionism constructed its own story as a unique and impregnableone, in the process excluding the voices of an indigenous people--thePalestinian Arabs.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VersoISBN-13:9781844672608ISBN-10:1844672603UPC:9781844672608Book Category:History, Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Middle East, Jewish Studies, JewishBook Topic:Israel & PalestineSize:9.17 x 6.19 x 0.91 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCK5E762E7
Gabriel Piterberg teaches history at UCLA, and has taught at St Antony's and Balliol Colleges, Oxford. His previous books include An Ottoman Tragedy: History and Historiography at Play. He writes for the New Left Review and the London Review of Books.
Publisher: Verso

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