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In another two-parter, Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt break down the long thorny history of Zionism.
In part one, covering the 1890s to the 1930s, they explain how Theodor Herzl single handedly created a movement for a Jewish nation, Chaim Weizmann won over Churchill and Balfour, and Ze’ev Jabotinsky sowed the seeds of Likud. Utopian dreams wrestle with hard-nosed pragmatism as the Zionists clash with the world’s great powers, and each other, about what a Jewish nation should be.
Hear Part Two right now when you support Origin Story on Patreon: www.Patreon.com/originstorypod
Reading list:
Steven Beller – Herzl
Lenni Brenner – Zionism in the Age of Dictators
Walter Laqueur – A History of Zionism
Alex Ryvchin – Zionism: The Concise History
Avi Shlaim – The Iron Wall
Michael Stanislawski – Zionism: A Very Short Introduction
Melvin J. Urofsky – American Zionism from Herzl to the Holocaust
Jeff Walker – The Revisionists and the Rise of Right-Wing Zionism
Geoffrey Wheatcroft – Churchill’s Shadow
Paul Bogdanor’s critique of Lenni Brenner:
https://fathomjournal.org/an-antisemitic-hoax-lenni-brenner-on-zionist-collaboration-with-the-nazis/
The Making of Modern Zionism: The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State, by Shlomo Avineri
Written and presented by Dorian Lynskey and Ian Dunt. Audio production and music by Jade Bailey. Logo art by Mischa Welsh. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Origin Story is a Podmasters production.
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