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- Converging Alternatives: The Bund and the Zionist Labor Movement, 1897-1985
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Israeli Studies
summary
The first comparative study of two major Jewish labor movements. Converging Alternatives provides the first comparative study of the national ideology of two rival Jewish socialist movements: the Bund party and the Zionist Labor movement in Eretz-Israel (Palestine). Yosef Gorny traces the concept of the Jewish nation from the foundation of the Bund and the first Zionist Congress in 1897 until the remains of the Bund decided to join the Jewish local and world institutions in 1985. The following events from those years are covered: the Soviet Revolution, the Balfour declaration, the founding of the Polish Republic, the British Mandate on Palestine, the rise of the Nazi party in Germany, the Jewish-Arab conflict, the Holocaust, and the gradual disappearance of the two movements from the historical stage. This innovative approach to the Bund and Zionist movements helps explain the connection between nationalism and multiculturalism in the Jewish modern tradition.
Table of Contents
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- Converging Alternatives
- pp. i-viii
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. xiii-xiv
- INTRODUCTION
- pp. 1-16
- 5. THE TRAGIC ILLUSION
- pp. 141-174
- 7. FROM BUND TO BUNDISM, 1947–1985
- pp. 207-236
- 8. FROM ZIONIST KLAL TO JEWISH KLAL
- pp. 237-258
- CONCLUSION
- pp. 259-272
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 297-302
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791482209
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
64560542
Pages
324
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No