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Article: Zionism and the Fin de Siecle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2005
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Zionism and the Fin de Siecle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky. By Michael Stanislawski. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Pp. xxi, 282. $19.95.)
Theodor Herzl, Max Nordau, and Vladimir Jabotinsky--central, indeed iconic, figures in the early Zionist movement--have long fascinated historians who were eager to explain why these "assimilated" Jewish intellectuals turned to Jewish nationalism. In this new book, Michael Stanislawski has utterly revised understanding of these figures, especially of Nordau and Jabotinsky. In a tour de force of investigative intellectual history, Stanislawski has sensitively analyzed the ...