ABSTRACT

This handbook and dictionary aims to provide the reader with a general overview of Zionist history and historiography, to tabulate all data on Zionism, and to gather in one source as many terms dealing directly or indirectly with Zionism and Jewish nationalism as possible.

Part 1: History of Zionism 1. Land and State in Jewish Tradition 2. Early Glimmerings of Rebirth 3. The Rise of Political Zionism 4. From Herzl to Balfour 5. The Rise of a Jewish Polity 6. Zionism and Jewish Communal Politics 7. Zionism, Arabism, and the British 8. In the Shadow of the Holocaust 9. War and Catastrophe 10. Revolt and Rebirth Part 2: Dictionary of Zionist Terms