תיאור הספר

RARE monograph on the role that Jewish religion played in the evolution of the Zionist movement by Yosef Salmon - professor of Modern Jewish History at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. The studies presented in the book cover a period of more than one hundred years, from the opinions about the Land of Israel expressed in the writings of the Hatam Sofer, Akiva Joseph Schlesinger, R. Zevi Hirsch Kalischer, through biographical study of the central figures in the evolution of religious Zionism: David Gordon, Yehiel Michael Pines and Samuel Mohilewer, the issue of religion during the early years of the Zionist Organization and the irreparable crisis between the Zionist movement and the ultra-Orthodox in eastern and central Europe around the year 1900, to the establishment of Hapoel HaMizrachi in 1922. 245x175mm. XXVIII+399 pages. Illustrated Hardcover. Cover and spine slightly rubbed. Spine edges bumped. This comprehensive monograph on the interrelation of Judaism and the evolving Zionist movement is in good condition.