TY - BOOK AU - Stanislawski,Michael TI - Zionism: a very short introduction T2 - Very short introductions SN - 9780199766048 AV - DS149 .S6585 2017 .S6585 2017 KW - Zionism KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Jews: religion or nation? -- Modern Jewish nationalism, 1872-1897 -- Theodor Herzl and the creation of the Zionist movement, 1897-1917 -- The Weizmann era and the Balfour Declaration -- Socialist and revisionist Zionisms, 1917-1939 -- Zionism in World War II and its aftermath -- Zionism in a Jewish state, 1948-1967 -- Nationalism and messianism, 1967-1977 -- Swing to the right, 1977-1995 -- Transformations of Zionism since 1995 N2 - "This Very Short Introduction discloses a history of Zionism from the origins of modern Jewish nationalism in the 1870's to the present. Michael Stanislawski provides a lucid and detached analysis of Zionism, focusing on its internal intellectual and ideological developments and divides"-- ER -