Author: Stanislawski, Michael [1952 - ]
Title: Zionism and the Fin-de-siecle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xxi,282,(12)pp. 12pp photoplates. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Cosmopolitanism, Zionism & Assimilation: The Case of Theodor Herzl; Max Nordau: the Improbable Bourgeois; Nordau & Novikova: Romance with an Antisemite & the Road to Zionism; Nordau's Zionism: From Heine to Bar Kockba; From Jugendstil to 'Judenstil*: Cosmopolitanism & Nationalism in the Work of Ephraim Moses Lilien; Vladimir Jabortinsky, from Odessa to Rome & Back: "Dichtung und Wahrheit"; Jabotinsky's Road to Zionism; Jabotinsky's Early Zionism: From 'In the City of Slaughter' to 'Alien Land'; Vladimir Jabotinsky: Cosmopolitan Ultra-Nationalist; Conclusion. [" Michael Stanislawski's provocative study of Max Nordau, Ephraim Moses Lilien, and Vladimir Jabotinsky reconceives the intersection of the European fin de siecle 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 With the help of hundreds of previously unavailable documents,published and unpublished, he reconstructs the ideological journeys of writer and critic Nordau, artist Lilien, and political icon Jabotinsky. He argues against the common conception of Nordau and Jabotinsky as nineteenth-century liberals, insisting that they must be understood against the backdrop of Social Darwinism in the West and the Positivism of Russian radicalism in the fin de siecle, as well as Symbolism, Decadence, and Art Nouveau..." - Publisher's description]

Keywords: Zionism, Max Nordau Israel, Ephraim Moses, Lilien Politics, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Theodor Herzl, Jewish Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, Political History