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Few countries provoke as much passion and controversy as Israel. What is Modern Israel? convincingly demonstrates that its founding ideology - Zionism - is anything but a simple reaction to antisemitism. Dispelling the notion that every Jew is a Zionist and therefore a natural advocate for the state of Israel, Yakov Rabkin points to the Protestant roots of Zionism, in order to explain the particular support Israel musters in the United States. Drawing on many overlooked pages of history, including English, French, Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian sources, Yakov Rabkin shows that Zionism was conceived as a sharp break with Judaism and Jewish continuity. Israel’s past and present must be seen in the context of European ethnic nationalism, colonial expansion and geopolitical interests, rather than as an incarnation of Biblical prophecies or a culmination of Jewish history.
Yakov M. Rabkin is Professor of History at the University of Montreal, Canada. His is the author of What is Modern Israel? (Pluto, 2016) and A Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism (Zed Books, 2006), amongst other works.
AcknowledgementsGlossaryPrefaceIntroduction1. The Land of Israel and Its Place in Jewish Tradition2. The Jews of Europe: Between Equality and Extermination3. A Return to the Promised Land as a Return to History4. The Zionist Enterprise5. The Nazi Genocide, Its Memory and Its Lessons6. The Making and Maintaining of the Zionist State7. Jewish Opposition to Zionism8. Israeli Society and Jewish Communities9. Israel in the International ArenaConclusion: A State Without BordersNotesIndex
'Those who believe that Zionism is a sequel of Judaism may do well to read this book; those who believe that Israel is a Jewish state must read it'
