Modernism and Zionism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Modernity, Modernism and Modernisation in Zionism

   • David Ohana

   Pages 1-28

3. The Myth of Zarathustra: Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem and the Nationalisation of Jewish Myth

   • David Ohana

   Pages 29-79

4. The Myth of Prometheus: Zionism and the Modernisation of Messianism

   • David Ohana

   Pages 80-121

5. The Myth of Nimrod: ‘Canaanism’ between Zionism and Post-Zionism

   • David Ohana

   Pages 122-178

6. Back Matter

   Pages 179-199

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Part of Palgrave's Modernism and ... series, Modernism and Zionism explores the relationship between modernism and the Jewish national ideology, the Zionist movement, which was operative in all areas of Jewish art and culture.

• art
• bibliography
• culture
• ideology
• Jewish art
• Judaism
• messianism
• Modernism
• Zionism

• Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

  David Ohana

DAVID OHANA Professor of Modern European History who specializes in comparative national mythologies. He has been affiliated with the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, Paris-Sorbonne, Harvard University, and the University of California at Berkeley. He teaches at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and he is a Senior Fellow at the Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism. The most recent of his many publications are Political Theologies in the Holy Land (Routledge 2009), the trilogy The Nihilist Order (Sussex 2009 -2010), Israel and Its Mediterranean Identity (Palgrave-Macmillan 2011), and The Origins of Israeli Mythology (Cambridge 2012).

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