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The Jewish Radical Right: Revisionist ZIonism and its Ideological Legacy
Eran Kaplan לקטלוג
The Jewish Radical Right: Revisionist ZIonism and its Ideological Legacy
The Jewish Radical Right is the first comprehensive analysis of Zionist Revisionist thought in the 1920s and 1930s, and its ideological legacy in modern-day Israel. The Revisionists, under the leadership of Ze'ev Jabotinsky, offered a radical view of Jewish history and a revolutionary vision for its future. Using new archival material, Eran Kaplan examines the intellectual and cultural origins of the Zionist and Israeli Right, when Revisionism evolved into one of the most important movements in the Zionist camp. He presents revisionism as a form of integral nationalism, rooted in an ontological monism and intellectually related to the radical right-wing ideologies that flourished in the early twentieth century.

Kaplan provocatively suggests that revisionism's legacies can be found both in the right-wing policies of Likud and in the heart of Post-Zionism and its critique of mainstream (Labor) Zionism. Providing a unique and new understanding of Revisionist Zionism, Eran kaplan's book is truly pathbreaking.


Eran Kaplan is assistant professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati.