Nationalism, Zionism and Ethnic Mobilization of the Jews in 1900 and Beyond

This interdisciplinary volume, containing eleven detailed studies, probes diverse aspects of how Jewish nationalism has worked in theory and practice--and at times been fiercely resisted--from the inception of Zionism in the late nineteenth century to the present.With contributions by Aviel Roshwald, Philip Bohlman, Derek Penslar, Barbara Mann, Nachman Ben-Yehuda, James Renton, Joshua Shanes, Michael Löwy, John M. Efron, Delphine Bechtel, Francois Guesnet, Inka Bertz, and Richard A. Freund.

Michael Berkowitz, Ph.D. (1989) in History, University of Wisconsin, is Reader in modern Jewish history at University College London. He has published extensively on Zionism, antisemitism and Jewish politics, including Zionist Culture and West European Jewry before the First World War (Cambridge, 1993).