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| Preface and Acknowledgements | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Introduction: Zionism as the political invention of a nation | |
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| The political beginnings of Zionism | |
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| The Messengers of Zion: towards Messianic realism | |
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| The constraints of anti-Semitism | |
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| Theodor Herzl, the herald of the state | |
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| Socialist Zionism: from community to state | |
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| Praise of Anarchist prophecy | |
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| Illusory Marxism, or the poverty of theory | |
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| Dionysian Zionism: belief in Pantheism | |
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| Class, nation, state: the Holy Trinity of Socialist Zionism | |
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| Hebrew, the language of the nation | |
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| Language as a political issue | |
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| The paradoxes of the Haskala | |
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| Hebrew, the womb of the nation | |
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| The crisis of the intelligentsia and the rise of Zionism | |
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| From condemnation to praise: Orthodox Jewry and Zionism | |
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| Religion and nationalism | |
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| Three responses to the shaking of tradition | |
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| The guardians of the City of God | |
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| For the political sovereignty of God | |
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| Under the banner of religious nationalism | |
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| The Rav Kook and the mystique of paradox | |
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| By blood and fire: The diehard nationalism of the Zionist Right | |
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| Vladimir Zeev Jabotinsky, Father of the Zionist Right | |
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| Liberalism within strict limits | |
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| National messianism | |
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| Saving the self of the individual and of the nation | |
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| Organic nationalism | |
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| Force at the heart of politics | |
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| Politics is a struggle | |
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| 1930-1949: The Generation of Revolt | |
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| Deliverance through violence | |
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| Right-wing revolutionaries | |
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| The totalitarian temptation | |
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| Political life through Zionism: a precarious victory | |
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| The political as a sign of the fall | |
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| The state at the heart of Jewish political modernity | |
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| The search for rational politics | |
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| Postscript: Israel at the dawn of the twenty-first century: between neo Zionism and post Zionism | |
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| Three forms of post Zionism | |
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| In defence of Zionism | |
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| Index | |