Zionist culture and West European Jewry before the First World War

by Michael Berkowitz

1993 255 pages eng

Although a "longing for Zion" has always existed in Judaism, Zionism's call for the Jews' return to Palestine is a distinctly modern phenomenon. This book investigates Zionism's reception by bourgeois West European Jews from 1897 to 1914, with regard to the movement's approach toward those who were …