Summary
Book by historian Dmitry Shumsky that Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine cites for the claim that the demand for a Jewish state did not define Zionism until the 1940s (Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine, line 164).
Details
- As Beinart presents the book: it covers cultural Zionists such as Ahad Ha’am and political Zionists such as Theodor Herzl, Leon Pinsker, Vladimir Jabotinsky and, for much of his life, David Ben-Gurion, who emphasized self-determination over sovereignty (line 164).
- The book is also Beinart’s source for the 1940s “new contract” formulation of Zionist thinking after the Holocaust (line 168). The essay gives no publisher or publication date for the book.
Related pages
Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine, Dmitry Shumsky, Zionism