Class 23. 4/12 Jewish nationalism and the State of Israel

Bonna Devorah Haberman, “Israel, a Palace in Space: A Gendered Re-Vision of Territoriality Download Israel, a Palace in Space: A Gendered Re-Vision of Territoriality

,” Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies & Gender Issues 6 (Fall 2003), 165-181.

Mendes-Flohr and Reinharz, Jew in the Modern World Download Jew in the Modern World

: “Zionism,” 585–587; Leo Pinsker, “Auto-Emancipation,” (1882), 589–591; Theodor Herzl, “A Solution of the Jewish Question (1896), Protestrabbiner, “Protest Against Zionism” (1897), 599–604; Max Nordau, “Jewry of Muscle” (1903), 616–617; David Ben-Gurion, “On the Arab Question” (1937), 686–690.

What were the motivations for the creation of the State of Israel? How did the founding of the State of Israel change Judaism worldwide?