Syllabus
1) Introduction
I. Beginnings 2) Moses L. Lilienblum, Leo Pinsker in: Arthur Hertzberg (ed.), The Zionist Idea. A Historical Analysis and Reader, A Temple Book, Atheneum, New York 1981, pp. 173 – 198. 3) Achad Haam, ibid., pp. 248 – 269. 4) Nachman Syrkin, ibid., pp. 333 – 351. 5) Theodor Herzl, ibid., pp. 204 – 225.
II. Hannah Arendt 6) Hannah Arendt, The Jew as Pariah: Jewish Identity and Politics in the Modern Age, (ed. Ron H. Feldman), Grove Press, New York 1978; Herzl and Lazare, Zionism Reconsidered, pp. 125 – 163. 7) H. Arendt, ibid., The Jewish State: Fifty Years After, To Save the Jewish Homeland, pp. 164 – 192. 8) H. Arendt, ibid., Peace or Armistice in the Near East?, pp. 193 – 224.
III. Omri Boehm 9) Omri Boehm, Haifa Republic. A Democratic Future for Israel, New York Review of Books, N. Y. 2021, Introduction and Chapter 1: The Liberal Zionism of the Future. 10) O. Boehm, ibid., Chapter 2: Forgetting and Remembering: the Holocaust. 11) O. Boehm, ibid., Chapter 3: Remembering and Forgetting: the Nakba. 12) O. Boehm, ibid., Chapter 4: The Haifa Republic. 13) Concluding Discussion.
Annotation
The course offers the selection of Zionist texts from the 1880s and 1890s to the present. The first part offers texts by Moshe L.
Lilienblum, Leo Pinsker, Achad Haam, Nachman Syrkin and Theodor Herzl. The second part is devoted to the Zionist writings of Hannah Arendt. The concluding part deals with the recent re-formulation of Zionism by Omri Boehm.