Zionism and the Fin de Siecle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky
Michael Stanislawski's provocative study of Max Nordau, Ephraim Moses Lilien, and Vladimir Jabotinsky reconceives the intersection of the European fin de siècle and early Zionism. Stanislawski takes up the tantalizing question of why Zionism, at a particular stage in its development, became so attractive to certain cosmopolitan intellectuals and artists. With the help of hundreds of previously unavailable documents, published and unpublished, he reconstructs the ideological journeys of writer...
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"Stanislawski shows that each of these three [Nordau, Lilien, and Jabotinsky] came to Zionism out of engagement with the larger issues that preoccupied intellectuals and artists at the turn of the century and that the adoption of Jewish nationalism was by no means a foregone conclusion or an inevitable trajectory. The chapters are written in a lively and accessible style."—David Biale, author of Eros and the Jews"Stanislawski has literally rewritten the early history of Zionism. . . . [His] discovery and masterly use of Nordau's correspondence with Olga Novikova and his treatment of Jabotinsky's youthful journalistic sallies are models of lucid and absorbing historical analysis."—Derek. J. Penslar, author of Shylock's Children Jerusalem Post An important contribution for serious students of Zionism and yet another example of the continuing intensity of the new historians.
List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Cosmopolitanism, Zionism, and Assimilation: The Case of Theodor Herzl12Max Nordau, the Improbable Bourgeois193Nordau and Novikova: Romance with an Antisemite and the Road to Zionism364Nordau's Zionism: From Heine to Bar Kochba745From Jugendstil to "Judenstil": Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in the Work of Ephraim Moses Lilien986Vladimir Jabotinsky, from Odessa to Rome and Back: "Dichtung und Wahrheit"1167Jabotinsky's Road to Zionism1508Jabotinsky's Early Zionism: From "In the City of Slaughter" to Alien Land1789Vladimir Jabotinsky, Cosmopolitan Ultra-Nationalist203Conclusion239Notes249Bibliography267Index277
\ ForwardA pioneering intellectual biography and [a challenge to] conventional understandings of the great-leader biography as a genre. This is a rich and complex book. [Stanislawski's] writing is always lively and often brilliant.\ \ \ \ \ Jerusalem PostAn important contribution for serious students of Zionism and yet another example of the continuing intensity of the new historians.\ \
