Name: Modernism and Zionism
ISBN: 978-1-137-26485-5

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xi

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Introduction: Modernity, Modernism and Modernisation in Zionism
- David Ohana
Pages 1-28
The Myth of Zarathustra: Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem and the Nationalisation of Jewish Myth
- David Ohana
Pages 29-79
The Myth of Prometheus: Zionism and the Modernisation of Messianism
- David Ohana
Pages 80-121
The Myth of Nimrod: ‘Canaanism’ between Zionism and Post-Zionism
- David Ohana
Pages 122-178
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Pages 179-199

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About this book

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.

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art
bibliography
culture
ideology
Jewish art
Judaism
messianism
Modernism
Zionism

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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

David Ohana

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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).

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Book Title: Modernism and Zionism
Authors: David Ohana
Series Title: Modernism and...
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137264855
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29011-2Published: 10 October 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-29012-9Published: 10 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-26485-5Published: 10 October 2012
Series ISSN: 2947-7220
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7239
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 199
Topics: Literary History, Modern History, Judaism, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, Social History

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Modernity, Modernism and Modernisation in Zionism

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

The Myth of Prometheus: Zionism and the Modernisation of Messianism

The Myth of Nimrod: ‘Canaanism’ between Zionism and Post-Zionism

Back Matter

About this book

Keywords

Authors and Affiliations

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

About the author

Bibliographic Information

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