ABSTRACT
The Scope of Geography and Time This book covers a specific period, namely the 25 years which elapsed between 1923/25 and 1948. This quarter century should not only be seen as the road leading towards a Jewish state, or the formative period of the Israeli Right after 1948. It should also be regarded as a specific historical period in its own right. The emergence of a Right wing within the Jewish national movement was one of the major and most crucial reactions to the situation and status of the Jews between the two world wars, both in Europe and in Eretz Israel under the mandatory regime. The Right was one of the responses to the overall situation of the Jews in the modem society, evolving in an era between war and revolution; between war and the Holocaust; and between Communism and nationalism.
