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Article: Zionism and the Fin de Siecle. Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky.(Book Review)
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- American Jewish History
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- December 1, 2002
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Zionism and the Fin de Siecle. Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky. By Michael Stanislawsky. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. xxi + 275 pp.
This book belongs to the growing body of revisionist literature on Zionism. It was unavoidable, in the decades after the establishment of the Jewish state, that the history of Zionism would be critically reconsidered. The revisionist thrust came from diverse directions. One trend, starting in the late 1980s, questioned then-current Israeli views about the Israeli-Palestinian war in 1948 and the emergence of the problem of the Palestinian refugees. Another trend, which began in the ...