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100 1 $aSternhell, Zeev.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83032583
240 10 $aAux origines d'Israël.$lEnglish$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97050596
245 14 $aThe founding myths of Israel :$bnationalism, socialism, and the making of the Jewish state /$cZeev Sternhell ; translated by David Maisel.
260 $aPrinceton, NJ :$bPrinceton University Press,$c1997.
263 $a9712
300 $axiii, 419 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $tA Note on the Transliteration of Hebrew Names and the Translation of Hebrew Book Titles --$tIntroduction: Nationalism, Socialism, and Nationalist Socialism --$gCh. 1.$tThe Primacy of the Nation: Aaron David Gordon and the Ethos of Nation-Building.$tThe Negation of the Diaspora.$tWhat Is a Nation?$tNationalism versus Socialism: The Amelioration of Man, Nation, or Society?$tThe Right to the Land: The Power of History --$gCh. 2.$tThe Worker as the Agent of National Resurrection.$tThe Heritage of the Second Aliyah.$tThe First Stages of the Shift to the Right.$tThe Elimination of the Marxist Po'alei Tzion Party.$tThe Founding of Ahdut Ha'avoda.$tExperiential Socialism --$gCh. 3.$tSocialism in the Service of the Nation: Berl Katznelson and "Constructive" Socialism.$tThe Legend and the Reality.$tThe Nation above All.$tFrom "Productivist" to Nationalist Socialism --$gCh. 4.$tEnds and Means: The Labor Ideology and the Histadrut.$tThe Bases of Power.
505 80 $tTaking over the Collective Settlements: The Establishment of the Nir Company.$tThe Cult of Discipline and Authority: The Destruction of Gdud Ha'avoda (the Labor Corps) --$gCh. 5.$tThe Triumph of Nationalist Socialism: "From Class to Nation"$tWhat Is a Class?$tThe Collaboration with the Middle Classes.$tThe Struggle over Workers' Education --$gCh. 6.$tDemocracy and Equality on Trial.$tThe Hegemony of the Apparatus and the Poverty of Intellectual Life.$tOligarchy and Conformism.$tEquality: Principle and Practice.$tThe Failure of the Family Wage.$tClass Warfare in the Histadrut.$tEpilogue: From the State-in-the-Making to the Nation-State.
520 $aThe well-known historian and political scientist Zeev Sternhell here advances a radically new interpretation of the founding of modern Israel. The founders claimed that they intended to create both a landed state for the Jewish people and a socialist society. However, according to Sternhell, socialism served the leaders of the influential labor movement more as a rhetorical resource for the legitimation of the national project of establishing a Jewish state than as a blueprint for a just society.
520 8 $aSternhell demonstrates how socialist principles were consistently subverted in practice by the nationalist goals to which socialist Zionism was committed.
520 8 $aSternhell explains how the avowedly socialist leaders of the dominant labor party, Mapai, especially David Ben-Gurion and Berl Katznelson, never really believed in the prospects of realizing the "dream" of a new society, even though many of their working-class supporters were self-identified socialists.
520 8 $aThe founders of the state understood, from the very beginning, that not only socialism but also other universalistic ideologies like liberalism were incompatible with cultural, historical, and territorial nationalism.
520 8 $aBecause nationalism took precedence over universal values, argues Sternhell, Israel has not evolved a constitution or a Bill of Rights, has not moved to separate state and religion, has failed to develop a liberal concept of citizenship, and, until the Oslo accords of 1993, did not recognize the rights of the Palestinians to independence.
520 8 $aThis is a controversial and timely book, which not only provides useful historical background to Israel's ongoing struggle to mobilize its citizenry to support a shared vision of nationhood, but also raises a question of general significance: is a national movement whose aim is a political and cultural revolution capable of coexisting with the universal values of secularism, individualism, and social justice?
520 8 $aThis bold critical reevaluation will unsettle long-standing myths as it contributes to a fresh new historiography of Zionism and Israel. At the same time, while it examines the past, The Founding Myths of Israel reflects profoundly on the future of the Jewish state.
650 0 $aZionism$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114071
650 0 $aZionism$xPhilosophy.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114072
650 0 $aJewish nationalism$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aLabor Zionism$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009128494
650 0 $aJews$zPalestine$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008106112
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