Historical Dictionary of Zionism

by Rafael Medoff and Chaim I. Waxman

The Jewish attachment to Zion is many centuries old. While the modern Zionist movement was organized a little more than a century ago, the roots of the Zionist idea reach back close to 4,000 years ago, to the day that the biblical patriarch Abraham left his home in Ur of the Chaldees to settle in the Promised Land, where the Jewish state subsequently arose. From that day to the establishing of the state of Israel in 1948, the Jewish people have been...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810859580
• ISBN13: 9780810859586
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.4"