"Zionism: The Birth and Transformation of an Ideal" by Milton Viorst
I searched this sub and nothing came up, even for the author. But I thought it's a book worth reading, considering the issues going on right now. It's always good to try and get more information on subjects that you might not understand. And I've never been interested in the subject at all.
I started reading it last night and found it very informative. Written by a Jewish man and focused on the leaders of the Zionist movement from the very beginning, it has already shed light on the movement as a whole. I've only read 42/350 pages but already have a better idea of how the movement was founded and put in to gear by the first serious "Leader" of the cause, Herzl.
Herzl was Jewish but not actually very religious, a fairly secular man who came from a family who assimilated into western society pretty well. I found it very interesting how a man so out of touch with his religion started the push for a home for the Jewish people. He even considered Argentina as a place to create the homeland. It just shows how little it meant about religion to him and just more about the Jewish "race" finding a place to be safe and out from under antisemitism.
I just wanted to mention it because it seems like it's never been talked about on this sub at all.
And so far it has opened my eyes a bit, especially to the different factions of zionists and how they all had different views of the movement.
And it just had a price drop so it was well worth it.
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