The Returns of Zionism: Myths, Politics and Scholarship in Israel | 
 enlarge | Author: Gabriel Piterberg
Publisher: Verso
Category: Book
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Pages: 256
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 6.1 x 1
ISBN: 1844672603
Dewey Decimal Number: 956
EAN: 9781844672608
ASIN: 1844672603
Publication Date: June 9, 2008
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Leading Israeli scholar with a major re-evaluation of Zionist ideology and literature.
In this original and wide-ranging study, Gabriel Piterberg examines the ideology and literature behind the colonization of Palestine, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Exploring Zionism's origins in Central-Eastern European nationalism and settler movements, he shows how its texts can be placed within a wider discourse of western colonization. Piterberg revisits the work of Theodor Herzl, Gershom Scholem, Anita Shapira and David Ben-Gurion, among other thinkers influential in the formation of the Zionist myth, to break open prevailing views of Zionism. He demonstrates that it was in fact unexceptional, expressing a consciousness and imagination typical of colonial settler movement. Shaped by European ideological currents and the realities of colonial life, Zionism constructed its own story as a unique and impregnable one, in the process excluding the voices of an indigenous people—the Palestinian Arabs.
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