Converging alternatives : the Bund and the Zionist Labor Movement, 1897-1985 / Yosef Gorny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gorni, Yosef.

Gorny Yosef, Corporate Author.

Series:

SUNY series in Israeli studies.

SUNY series in Israeli studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor Zionism--Europe, Eastern--History.

Labor Zionism.

Jews--Europe, Eastern--Politics and government--20th century.

Jews.

Jewish socialists--Europe, Eastern--History.

Jewish socialists.

Allgemeyner Idisher arbayṭerbund in Liṭa, Poylen un Rusland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : State University of New York Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Between class and nation: the Bund in Russia, 1897-1917

Between Eretz Israel and the diaspora: the Second Aliya, 1904-1914

From class to peoplehood: the Polish Bund, 1917-1932

Between the "Zionist Klal" and the "Halutsic Klal": The Zionist Labor Movement in the 1920's

The tragic illusion

Between pioneerhood and peoplehood: the Zionist Labor Movement, 1930-1947

From Bund to Bundism, 1947-1985

From Zionist Klal to Jewish Klal.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-301) and index.

ISBN:

9780791482209

0791482200

9781423755838

1423755839

OCLC:

64560542