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Michael Stanislawski's provocative study of Max Nordau, Ephraim Moses Lilien, and Vladimir Jabotinsky reconceives the intersection of the European fin de siecle and early Zionism. Stanislawski takes up the tantalizing question of why Zionism, at a particular stage in its development, became so attractive to certain cosmopolitan intellectuals and artists. With the help of hundreds of previously unavailable documents, published and unpublished, he reconstructs the ideological journeys of writer and critic Nordau, artist Lilien, and political icon Jabotinsky. He argues against the common conception of Nordau and Jabotinsky as nineteenth-century liberals, insisting that they must be understood against the backdrop of Social Darwinism in the West and the Positivism of Russian radicalism in the fin de siecle, as well as Symbolism, Decadence, and Art Nouveau. When these men turned to Zionism, Stanislawski says, far from abandoning their aesthetic and intellectual preconceptions, they molded Zionism according to their fin de siecle cosmopolitanism. Showing how cosmopolitanism turned to nationalism in the lives and work of these crucial early Zionists, this story is a fascinating chapter in European and Russian, as well as Jewish, cultural and political history. -- from publisher description

Zionism has become more than just a social movement; it has become a politicized ideological construct, an institution, an extension of Israeli politics and is commonly viewed as the unifying facet of what it means to be Jewish in the North American Diaspora. Within the Diaspora, there is an element of Zionism contained in Jewish educational resources that cannot go unnoticed. It is my belief that the methods of education used within these Diasporic communities impacts the way that Jews perceive themselves, each other and their relationship to the conflict in Israel/Palestine, reinforcing Zionist ideologies, beliefs, and a sense that unwavering loyalty and support for the homeland is something worth defending at all costs. Reevaluating the significance of educational materials and images found within them, the ideological nature of language and discourses of power will potentially create a dialogue into the conflict, self-reflexive understanding, and perhaps hope for peace.

Containing a series of essays, this work offers a radical departure from mainstream analysis in order to expose the causes for the persistence of the "Palestinian Question". It proposes that it is not in de-linking the Palestinian Question from the Jewish Question that a resolution can be found, but by linking them as one and the same question

The birth of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948 is inseparable from the expertise of political Zionism led by a Jew Theodoro Harzel (1860-1904) Paris correspondence for Neue Preie Presse and through his work Der Judenstaat (Jewish State). The issue of the Holocaust (Jewish sacred sacrifice of Nazi atrocities Adolf Hitler in Oradur) brought Religious zionism to close ranks for the formation of Greater Israel which stretched from the Red Sea to the Euphrates River where Khaibar Madinah al-Munawwarah was included. The world communication media has been controlled by the Zionists for the formation of people's opinions. So preaching communication despite stumbling due to lack of funds and human resources (professional and technocratic preachers) remains the foundation of hope for preaching communication, and efforts to revitalize the methods and media of preaching into an absolute means. Even that stone can be accomplished by closing ranks (i'tisham bihablillah, ukhuwah Islamiah).