Jewish Studies

This entry takes a comprehensive look at zionism. It includes sections about the history and evolution of the Zionism as an ideology, non-Zionist and anti-Zionist trends, Zionist policies, Zionist organizations, Zionist utopias, Christian Zionism, and an extensive bibliography.

This handbook and dictionary aims to provide the reader with a general overview of Zionist history and historiography, to tabulate all data on Zionism, and to gather in one source as many terms dealing directly or indirectly with Zionism and Jewish nationalism as possible.

This Handbook, the first of its kind, provides an in-depth examination of the evolution, ideology, history and culture of Zionism and its various movements.

Zionism is a variety of Jewish nationalism, stating that Jews constitute a nation whose survival, both physical and cultural, requires its return to the Jews’ ancestral home in the Land of Israel. The focus of this bibliography is on books that pertain more or less directly to Zionism as an ideology, and as a political and social movement, rather than a comprehensive history of Palestine.

Understanding Zionism is a detailed introduction to the background and development of the Zionist movement, its various streams, and its impact on government and society in Israel.