Socialist Zionism
A Broken Dream
de אודי אדיב
>This book is, to some extent, about Zionist history. However, my aim has not been to discover hidden historical facts, or to reveal, à la Von Ranke, “what Zionist history really was”. Instead, I mainly intended to elaborate about the writers of the Israeli “republic of letters” from a socialist perspective, a perspective which still exists in this reality of exclusivist Israeli-Jewish nationhood. Hence, the relevance and importance of the critique contained in this book are twofold: political and theoretical. As a political activist, I criticized Zionism a priori, as the late, ultra- nationalist response to the failure of Jewish emancipation in Central and Eastern Europe. However, after further study and thought, I realized that historically the Zionist project was mostly accomplished by the Zionist labour movement. The geographical, historical and ideological context within which this movement was formed was that of the Russian revolutionary movement of the early 20th century. Hence, the early Zionist movement, then in a state of flux, still had the potential to opt for more enlightened ways to realize its Jewish national idea. The second part consists of a dual negation of two prominent approaches in Israeli contemporary "republic of letters": the apologetic writings of the neo-Zionist school, as well as the criticism for criticism’s sake of the post-Zionist school, which renders the inspirational, educative and revolutionary voice of the intellectual irrelevant and unheeded. - [amazon listing](https://www.amazon.com/Socialist-Zionism-Broken-Neo-Zionism-Post-Zionism/dp/B0BGN8XRR6)
