The Hebrew Falcon : Adya Horon and the Birth of the Canaanite Idea / Roman Vater.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vater, Roman, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Horon, A. G. (Adolph Gourevitch).

Horon, A. G.

Jews--Israel--Identity.

Jews.

National characteristics, Israeli.

Israel--Biography.

Israel.

Genre:

Biographies

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2024]

Summary:

A pioneering study of a formative chapter in Middle East intellectual history, examining the historical myth that underlies the "Canaanite" brand of Israeli nationalist anti-Zionism.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Terminology

Introduction

Revisiting "Canaanism"

The "Canaanites" in a Zionist Mirror

Chapter 1 Adya Horon's Life

Europe (1907-1940)

America with an Israeli Intermezzo (1940-1959)

Israel (1959-1972)

Chapter 2 From Nation to Denomination: Adya Horon's Historiography

Who Possesses a "National Outlook"? The Nation in History

Kedem: The Land in History

Hebrew National History

The Arrival of Judaism

Chapter 3 From Denomination to Nation: Adya Horon's Politics

The Jews in Horon's Perspective

The Arabs in Horon's Perspective

The Path to "Kedem Union"

Chapter 4 The Hebrew Foundational Myth in a Comparative Perspective

Canaanism" Contrasted to Zionism

"Canaanism" as a Precursor of Post-Zionism?

"Canaanism" in a Regional Perspective

Conclusion What Counts as a Failure?

Appendix A

Historical Introduction: The Ancient Hebrews

I.

Past and Present Facts

1. Who Are the Jews?

2. What Is Jewry Today?

3. What Are the New Hebrews?

4. The "Jewish Question" and the Near East

A. The Jewish Minorities

B. The Failure of Zionism

C. The "Arab League" Fiction

D. Enslavement of the Near East

II.

The Fight for Freedom and Rebirth

1. The Hebrew Resistance

2. The Irgun and the Hagana*

3. The Hebrew Committee of National Liberation

III.

Toward Hebrew Independence

1. Program of the Hebrew Movement

2. The Hebrew Republic and Its Territory

3. The Need for a Provisional Hebrew Government

Appendix B

Pan-Arabism

Appendix C

Appendix D

(I) Answers to specific points in your letters.

(II) The new Rosoff-Polkes (?) draft of a Kedem Memorandum.

(III) My Own Views

(IV) My Proposal of Action, right now, will be very brief:

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781438497679

1438497679

OCLC:

1430661303