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Record Nr.

UNINA9910974705503321

Autore

Kaplan Eran

Titolo

The Jewish radical right : Revisionist Zionism and its ideological legacy / / Eran Kaplan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Madison, Wis., : University of Wisconsin Press, c2005

ISBN

9786612269615

9781282269613

1282269615

9780299203832

0299203832

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 234 p. ) : ill., ports. ;

Collana

Studies on Israel

Disciplina

320.54/095694

Soggetti

Revisionist Zionism - Israel - History

Religious right - Israel

Right and left (Political science)

Israel Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Between left and right : Revisionism in Zionist politics -- Monism : Revisionism's ontological philosophy -- A mobilized society : Revisionist economics -- The state of pleasure : Revisionist aesthetics -- Land, space and gender : visions of the future Hebrew state -- Neither east nor west : Revisionism and the Mediterranean world.

Sommario/riassunto

The Jewish Radical Right is the first comprehensive analysis of Zionist Revisionist thought in the 1920s and 1930s, and of its ideological legacy in modern-day Israel. The Revisionists, under the leadership of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, offered a radical view of Jewish history and a revolutionary vision for its future. Using new archival material, Eran Kaplan examines the intellectual and cultural origins of the Zionist and Israeli Right, when Revisionism evolved into one of the most important movements in the Zionist camp. He presents revisionism as a form of integral nationalism, rooted in an ontological monism and intellectually related to the radical right-wing ideologies that flourished in the early twentieth century. Kaplan provocatively suggests that revisionism's



legacies can be found both in the right-wing policies of Likud and in the heart of Post Zionism and its critique of mainstream (Labor) Zionism.Published with support from the Koret Jewish Studies Program