Zionism and the Fin de Siecle: Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to JabotinskyMichael 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 With the help of hundreds of previously unavailable documents, published and unpublished, he reconstructs the ideological journeys of writer and critic Nordau, artist Lilien, and political icon Jabotinsky.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 siècle, as well as Symbolism, Decadence, and Art Nouveau. When these men turned to Zionism, Stanislawski says, far from abandoning their aesthetic and intellectual preconceptions, they molded Zionism according to their fin de siècle cosmopolitanism. Showing how cosmopolitanism turned to nationalism in the lives and work of these crucial early Zionists, this story is a fascinating chapter in European and Russian, as well as Jewish, cultural and political history. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2001. 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 particu |
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Max Nordau the Improbable Bourgeois | 23 |
Nordau and Novikova Romance with an Antisemite and the Road to Zionism | 40 |
Nordaus Zionism From Heine to Bar Kochba | 78 |
From Jugendstil to Judenstil Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in the Work of Ephraim Moses Lilien | 100 |
Vladimir Jabotinsky from Odessa to Rome and Back Dichtung und Wahrheit | 118 |
Jabotinskys Road to Zionism | 152 |
Jabotinskys Early Zionism From In the City of Slaughter to Alien Land | 180 |
Vladimir Jabotinsky Cosmopolitan UltraNationalist | 205 |
Conclusion | 241 |
Notes | 251 |
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