Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State ebook download Zeev Sternhell

Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State

The well-known historian and political scientist Zeev Sternhell here advances a radically new interpretation of the founding of modern Israel. The founders claimed that they intended to create both a landed state for the Jewish people and a socialist society. However, according to Sternhell, socialism served the leaders of the influential labor movement more as a rhetorical resource for the legitimation of the national project of establishing a Jewish state than as a blueprint for a just society. In this thought-provoking book, Sternhell demonstrates how socialist principles were consistently subverted in practice by the nationalist goals to which socialist Zionism was committed. Sternhell explains how the avowedly socialist leaders of the dominant labor party, Mapai, especially David Ben Gurion and Berl Katznelson, never really believed in the prospects of realizing the "dream" of a new society, even though many of their working-class supporters were self-identified socialists. The founders of the state understood, from the very beginning, that not only socialism but also other universalistic ideologies like liberalism, were incompatible with cultural, historical, and territorial nationalism. Because nationalism took precedence over universal values, argues Sternhell, Israel has not evolved a constitution or a Bill of Rights, has not moved to separate state and religion, has failed to develop a liberal concept of citizenship, and, until the Oslo accords of 1993, did not recognize the rights of the Palestinians to independence.

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Title of ebook: Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State
ISBN: 9781400807703
parent-ISBN: 9780691016948
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages: 464
Published: 02-2001
Released online for download: 02-15-2001
Author of eBook: Sternhell, Zeev

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Contents

Preface.............................................................ix A Note on the Transliteration of Hebrew Names and the Translation of Hebrew Book Titles...................................xv Introduction Nationalism, Socialism, and Nationalist Socialism................3 Chapter One The Primacy of the Nation: Aaron David Gordon and the Ethos of Nation-Building........................................47 The Negation of the Diaspora....................................47 What Is a Nation?...............................................52 Nationalism versus Socialism: The Amelioration of Man, Nation, or Society?.............................................59 The Right to the Land: The Power of History.....................68 Chapter Two The Worker as the Agent of National Resurrection................74 The Heritage of the Second Aliyah...............................74 The First Stages of the Shift to the Right......................80 The Elimination of the Marxist Po'alei Tzion Party..............92 The Founding of Ahdut Ha'avoda.......... ... read full excerpt from: Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State ebook

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