This text proposes a radical interpretation of the founding of modern Israel. The founders claimed that they intended to create both a landed state for the Jewish people and a socialist society, but this book argues that socialism served the leaders of the influential labour movement more as a rhetorical resource for the legitimation of the national project of establishing a Jewish state than as a blueprint for a just society. The book demonstrates how socialist principles were consistently subverted in practice by the nationalist goals to which socialist Zionism was committed.
- ISBN13 9781400822362
- Publish Date 7 October 2009 (first published 7 December 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Princeton University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 464
- Language English
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