Contents
Foreword by Natan Sharansky
Acknowledgments
Introduction: How Zionism’s Six Traditional Schools of Thought Shape Today’s Conversation
Part One. Pioneers: Founding the Jewish State
1. Pioneers: Political Zionism
Peretz Smolenskin
It Is Time to Plant (1875–77)
Let Us Search Our Ways (1881)
The Haskalah of Berlin (1883)
Leon Pinsker
Auto-Emancipation: An Appeal to His People by a Russian Jew (1882)
Theodor Herzl
The Jewish State (1896)
From the Diaries of Theodor Herzl (1895)
Third Letter to Baron Hirsch (1895)
Max Nordau
Zionism (1902)
Muskeljudentum, Jewry of Muscle (1903)
Jacob Klatzkin
Boundaries: Judaism Is Nationalism (1914–21)
Chaim Weizmann
On the Report of the Palestine Commission (1937)
Natan Alterman
Shir Moledet (Song of the homeland) (1935)
Magash HaKesef (The silver platter) (1947)
Albert Einstein
Palestine, Setting of Sacred History of the Jewish Race (with Erich Kahler) (1944)
2. Pioneers: Labor Zionism
Moses Hess
Rome and Jerusalem (1862)
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bilu Manifesto (1882)
Joseph Hayyim Brenner
Self-Criticism (1914)
Nahman Syrkin
The Jewish Problem and the Socialist Jewish State (1898)
Ber Borochov
Our Platform (1906)
Aaron David Gordon
People and Labor (1911)
Our Tasks Ahead (1920)
Rachel Bluwstein
My Country (1926)
Berl Katzenelson
Revolution and Tradition (1934)
Rahel Yanait Ben-Zvi
The Plough Woman (1931)
3. Pioneers: Revisionist Zionism
The Union of Zionists-Revisionists
Declaration of the Central Committee of the Union of Zionists-Revisionists (1925)
Vladimir Jabotinsky
The Fundamentals of the Betarian World Outlook (1934)
Evidence Submitted to the Palestine Royal Commission (1937)
The Iron Wall ([1923] 1937)
Saul Tchernichovsky
I Believe (1892)
They Say There’s a Land (1923)
The Irgun
Proclamation of the Irgun Zvai Leumi (1939)
Avraham (Yair) Stern
Eighteen Principles of Rebirth (1940)
Haim Hazaz
The Sermon (1942)
4. Pioneers: Religious Zionism
Yehudah Alkalai
The Third Redemption (1843)
Samuel Mohilever
Message to the First Zionist Congress (1897)
Isaac Jacob Reines
A New Light on Zion (1902)
Abraham Isaac Kook
The Land of Israel (1910–30)
The Rebirth of Israel (1910–30)
Lights for Rebirth (1910–30)
Moshe “Kalphon” HaCohen
Mateh Moshe (Moses’s headquarters) (1920)
Meir Bar-Ilan (Berlin)
What Kind of Life Should We Create in Eretz Israel? (1922)
5. Pioneers: Cultural Zionism
Eliezer Ben-Yehudah
A Letter of Ben-Yehudah (1880)
Introduction to The Complete Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Hebrew (1908)
Ahad Ha’am (Asher Zvi Ginsberg)
On Nationalism and Religion (1910)
The Jewish State and the Jewish Problem (1897)
Hayyim Nahman Bialik
The City of Slaughter (1903)
At the Inauguration of the Hebrew University (1925)
Micah Joseph Berdichevski
Wrecking and Building (1900–1903)
In Two Directions (1900–1903)
On Sanctity (1899)
Martin Buber
Hebrew Humanism (1942)
An Open Letter to Mahatma Gandhi (1939)
6. Pioneers: Diaspora Zionism
Solomon Schechter
Zionism: A Statement (1906)
Louis Dembitz Brandeis
The Jewish Problem and How to Solve It (1915)
Henrietta Szold
Letter to Augusta Rosenwald (1915)
Horace Mayer Kallen
Zionism and Liberalism (1919)
Stephen S. Wise
Challenging Years (1949)
Milton Steinberg
The Creed of an American Zionist (1945)
Part Two. Builders: Actualizing and Modernizing the Zionist Blueprints
7. Builders: Political Zionism
Israel’s Declaration of Independence (1948)
David Ben-Gurion
The Imperatives of the Jewish Revolution (1944)
Speech to Mapai Central Committee (1948)
Am Segula: Memoirs (1970)
The Law of Return (1950)
Isaiah Berlin
Jewish Slavery and Emancipation (1953)
The Achievement of Zionism (1975)
Abba Eban
Statement to the Security Council (1967)
Teddy Kollek
Jerusalem (1977)
Chaim Herzog
Address to the United Nations General Assembly (1975)
Albert Memmi
The Liberation of the Jew (1966, 2013)
Jews and Arabs (1975)
Yonatan (Yoni) Netanyahu
Letters from Yoni Netanyahu (1968, 1975)
Elie Wiesel
One Generation After (1970)
A Jew Today (1975, 1978)
Natan Sharanksy
Fear No Evil (1988)
Emmanuel Levinas
Politics After (1979)
Assimilation and New Culture (1980)
Martin Peretz
The God That Did Not Fail (1997)
8. Builders: Labor Zionism
Golda Meir
A Land of Our Own (1973)
Address to the United Nations General Assembly (1958)
Muki Tsur
The Soldiers’ Chat (1967)
Amos Oz
The Meaning of Homeland (1967)
Roy Belzer
Garin HaGolan Anthology (1972)
The Members of Kibbutz Ketura
The Kibbutz Ketura Vision (1994)
Yaakov Rotblit
Shir LaShalom, A Song for Peace (1969)
Leonard Fein
Days of Awe (1982)
Yitzhak Rabin
Our Tremendous Energies from a State of Siege (1994)
Shimon Peres
Nobel Lecture (1994)
Shulamit Aloni
I Cannot Do It Any Other Way (1997)
9. Builders: Revisionist Zionism
Uri Zvi Greenberg
Those Living-Thanks to Them Say (1948)
Israel without the Mount (1948–49)
Geulah Cohen
Memoirs of a Young Terrorist (1943–48)
The Tehiya Party Platform (1988)
Moshe Shamir
For a Greater Israel (1967)
The Green Space: Without Zionism, It’ll Never Happen (1991)
Menachem Begin
The Revolt (1951)
Broadcast to the Nation (1948)
Statement to the Knesset upon the Presentation of His Government (1977)
Yitzhak Shalev
We Shall Not Give Up Our Promised Borders (1963)
Eliezer Schweid
Israel as a Zionist State (1970)
The Promise of the Promised Land (1988)
Benjamin Netanyahu
A Place among the Nations (1993)
10. Builders: Religious Zionism
Ben-Zion Meir Chai Uziel
Prayer for the State of Israel (1948)
On Nationalism (ca. 1940–50)
David Edan
A Call for Aliyah (ca. 1950)
Joseph Ber Soloveitchik
Listen! My Beloved Knocks! (1956)
Yeshayahu Leibowitz
A Call for the Separation of Religion and State (1959)
Zvi Yehuda Hakohen Kook
On the 19th Anniversary of Israel’s Independence (1967)
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Israel: An Echo of Eternity (1969)
Esther Jungreis
Zionism: A Challenge to Man’s Faith (1977)
Talma Alyagon-Roz
Eretz Tzvi, The Land of Beauty (1976, 2014)
Eliezer Berkovits
On Jewish Sovereignty (1973)
Gush Emunim
Friends of Gush Emunim Newsletter (1978)
David Hartman
Auschwitz or Sinai (1982)
The Third Jewish Commonwealth (1985)
Commission on the Philosophy of Conservative Judaism
Emet V’Emunah: Statement of Principles of Conservative Judaism (1988)
Richard Hirsch
Toward a Theology of Reform Zionism (2)
Ovadia Yosef
Oral Torah 14 (1979)
11. Builders: Cultural Zionism
Haim Hefer
There Were Times (1948)
A. M. Klein
The Second Scroll (1951)
Leon Uris
The Exodus Song / This Land Is Mine (1960)
Shmuel Yosef Agnon
Nobel Prize Speech (1966)
Naomi Shemer
Jerusalem of Gold (1967)
Yehudah Amichai
All the Generations before Me (1968)
Tourists¿ (1980)
Gershon Shaked
No Other Place (1980, 1987)
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
Deborah, Golda, and Me (1991)
Anne Roiphe
Generation without Memory (1981)
12. Builders: Diaspora Zionism
Arthur Hertzberg
Impasse: A Movement in Search of a Program (1949)
Some Reflections on Zionism Today (1977)
Mordecai M. Kaplan
A New Zionism (1954, 1959)
Rose Halprin
Speech to the Zionist General Council (1950)
Jacob Blaustein
Statements by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Mr. Jacob Blaustein on the Relationship between Israel and American Jews (1950, 1956)
Simon Rawidowicz
Babylon and Jerusalem (1957)
Two That Are One (1949)
Irving “Yitz” Greenberg
Twenty Years Later: The Impact of Israel on American Jewry (1968)
Yom Yerushalayim: Jerusalem Day (1988)
Eugene Borowitz
Twenty Years Later: The Impact of Israel on American Jewry (1968)
Herman Wouk
This Is My God (1969, 1974)
Arnold Jacob Wolf
Will Israel Become Zion? (1973)
Breira National Platform (1977)
Hillel Halkin
Letters to an American Jewish Friend: The Case for Life in Israel (1977, 2013)
Dennis Prager and Joseph Telushkin
Nine Questions People Ask about Judaism (1975)
Alex Singer
Alex: Building a Life (1983, 1986, 1996)
Blu Greenberg
What Do American Jews Believe? A Symposium (1996)
Part Three. Torchbearers: Reassessing, Redirecting, Reinvigorating
13. Torchbearers: Political Zionism
Michael Oren
Jews and the Challenge of Sovereignty (2006)
Tal Becker
Beyond Survival: Aspirational Zionism (2011)
Michael Walzer
The State of Righteousness: Liberal Zionists Speak Out (2012)
Aharon Barak
Address to the 34th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem (2002)
Yael “Yuli” Tamir
A Jewish and Democratic State (2)
Ze’ev Maghen
John Lennon and the Jews: A Philosophical Rampage (2010)
Daniel Gordis
The Promise of Israel (2012)
Leon Wieseltier
Brothers and Keepers: Black Jews and the Meaning of Zionism (1985)
Irwin Cotler
Speech to the United Jewish Communities General Assembly (2006)
Gadi Taub
In Defense of Zionism (2014)
Bernard-Henri Lévy
The Genius of Judaism (2017)
Asa Kasher
idf Code of Ethics (1994)
14. Torchbearers: Labor Zionism
Anita Shapira
The Abandoned Middle Road (2012)
Ephraim Katchalski-Katzir
My Contributions to Science and Society (2005)
Ruth Gavison
Statement of...