Yitzḥak Conforti
Biographic Data
| ID | 3479384 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yitzḥak Conforti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yitzḥak |
| FAMILY NAME | Conforti |
| SIGNATURE | CONFORTI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Zionism and the Hebrew Bible
The Bible’s central position in the Zionist movement is well-known. Most previous studies on this topic have focused on Israeli society following the establishment of the State of Israel. By contrast, this article focuses on the role of the Hebrew Bible in Jewish nationalism and early Zionist thought from the 1880s to 1948. This article examines the connection between Zionism and the Bible in the context of modern nationalism research from a cult…
Utopian imagination in the Zionist movement
This article examines the last utopian novel of early Zionist thought and literature. The utopia Jerusalem Rebuilt was written after the First World War and published in the mid-1920s by Boris Schatz. This work combined artistic utopian vision and Jewish nationalism, and it reflected the early Zionist vision at the turn of the twentieth century. This article discusses Schatz’s work against the backdrop of Zionist utopian literature that was writt…
The cultural origins of Jewish nationalism
This article offers a new perspective on the early stages of Zionism, adopting the ethno‐symbolic approach to the study of nationalism. Scholars who follow this approach assert that in order to achieve a complete understanding of nationalism, we must address its cultural pre‐modern dimension. I argue that in the case study of Jewish nationalism presented here, this approach offers us a more nuanced understanding of early Zionism. First, the artic…
State or D iaspora
This study addresses the writing of J ewish history as a form of national belonging in I srael and in the D iaspora. S imon D ubnow laid the foundation for J ewish national historiography in the beginning of the twentieth century. Beginning in the 1920s, Zionist historians in Palestine emphasized the centrality of the Land of I srael in J ewish history, while J ewish historians in the D iaspora preferred an elliptical model, which recognized two …
Searching for a Homeland
This article addresses the relationship between territorial borders and ethnic boundaries in the Z ionist movement. Beginning with the Sixth Z ionist Congress in 1903, the distinction between these two components of the Z ionist movement rose to the forefront of the Z ionist consciousness. The argument over the U ganda proposal revealed the differing preferences of political and practical Z ionism. But this argument, which ended with the rejectio…
Zionist Awareness of the Jewish Past
Since the 1980s, the question of how nations are formed has been the topic of historiographic debate: is it correct to define nation‐building in terms of inventing traditions, or is the ethnic‐symbolic viewpoint more useful in understanding the process of development of the nation‐state? This debate is also reflected in research on J ewish nationalism. In this article, I will examine this issue in relation to the Z ionist movement, focusing on se…
Between ethnic and civic
This article addresses two basic issues of the Zionist vision: 1. Was the Jewish state planned as an ethnic or civic state? 2. What was the character of the Zionist vision? Was it a holistic utopian vision, or a minimalist vision for creating a Jewish national state? This research concludes that the state of Israel, which developed from a nationalist ethnic-cultural movement, integrated within it ethnic values as well as Western civic values. The…
East and West in Jewish nationalism
This article analyses the ethnic and civic components of the early Zionist movement. The debate over whether Zionism was an Eastern-ethnic nationalist movement or a Western-civic movement began with the birth of Zionism. The article also investigates the conflict that broke out in 1902 surrounding the publication of Herzl's utopian vision, Altneuland. Ahad Ha'am, a leader of Hibbat Zion and 'Eastern' cultural Zionism, sharply attacked Herzl's 'We…
Alternative voices in Zionist historiography1
In contrast to the image popularized by the post‐Zionist polemic in Israel, Zionist historiography in its formative age between the 1930s and the 1960s did not share a unified view of the Jewish past. Various historians researched Jewish history from the nationalist point of view as well as that of a scientific research project, with the goal of understanding and describing the Jewish past. This complexity in the view of the Jewish past became ev…
Between ethnic and civic
This article addresses two basic issues of the Zionist vision: 1. Was the Jewish state planned as an ethnic or civic state? 2. What was the character of the Zionist vision? Was it a holistic utopian vision, or a minimalist vision for creating a Jewish national state? This research concludes that the state of Israel, which developed from a nationalist ethnic-cultural movement, integrated within it ethnic values as well as Western civic values. The…
East and West in Jewish nationalism
This article analyses the ethnic and civic components of the early Zionist movement. The debate over whether Zionism was an Eastern-ethnic nationalist movement or a Western-civic movement began with the birth of Zionism. The article also investigates the conflict that broke out in 1902 surrounding the publication of Herzl's utopian vision, Altneuland. Ahad Ha'am, a leader of Hibbat Zion and 'Eastern' cultural Zionism, sharply attacked Herzl's 'We…
Searching for a Homeland
This article addresses the relationship between territorial borders and ethnic boundaries in the Z ionist movement. Beginning with the Sixth Z ionist Congress in 1903, the distinction between these two components of the Z ionist movement rose to the forefront of the Z ionist consciousness. The argument over the U ganda proposal revealed the differing preferences of political and practical Z ionism. But this argument, which ended with the rejectio…
Alternative voices in Zionist historiography1
In contrast to the image popularized by the post‐Zionist polemic in Israel, Zionist historiography in its formative age between the 1930s and the 1960s did not share a unified view of the Jewish past. Various historians researched Jewish history from the nationalist point of view as well as that of a scientific research project, with the goal of understanding and describing the Jewish past. This complexity in the view of the Jewish past became ev…
Zionism and the Hebrew Bible
The Bible’s central position in the Zionist movement is well-known. Most previous studies on this topic have focused on Israeli society following the establishment of the State of Israel. By contrast, this article focuses on the role of the Hebrew Bible in Jewish nationalism and early Zionist thought from the 1880s to 1948. This article examines the connection between Zionism and the Bible in the context of modern nationalism research from a cult…
Utopian imagination in the Zionist movement
This article examines the last utopian novel of early Zionist thought and literature. The utopia Jerusalem Rebuilt was written after the First World War and published in the mid-1920s by Boris Schatz. This work combined artistic utopian vision and Jewish nationalism, and it reflected the early Zionist vision at the turn of the twentieth century. This article discusses Schatz’s work against the backdrop of Zionist utopian literature that was writt…
The cultural origins of Jewish nationalism
This article offers a new perspective on the early stages of Zionism, adopting the ethno‐symbolic approach to the study of nationalism. Scholars who follow this approach assert that in order to achieve a complete understanding of nationalism, we must address its cultural pre‐modern dimension. I argue that in the case study of Jewish nationalism presented here, this approach offers us a more nuanced understanding of early Zionism. First, the artic…
Zionist Awareness of the Jewish Past
Since the 1980s, the question of how nations are formed has been the topic of historiographic debate: is it correct to define nation‐building in terms of inventing traditions, or is the ethnic‐symbolic viewpoint more useful in understanding the process of development of the nation‐state? This debate is also reflected in research on J ewish nationalism. In this article, I will examine this issue in relation to the Z ionist movement, focusing on se…
Alternative voices in Zionist historiography1
In contrast to the image popularized by the post‐Zionist polemic in Israel, Zionist historiography in its formative age between the 1930s and the 1960s did not share a unified view of the Jewish past. Various historians researched Jewish history from the nationalist point of view as well as that of a scientific research project, with the goal of understanding and describing the Jewish past. This complexity in the view of the Jewish past became ev…
East and West in Jewish nationalism
This article analyses the ethnic and civic components of the early Zionist movement. The debate over whether Zionism was an Eastern-ethnic nationalist movement or a Western-civic movement began with the birth of Zionism. The article also investigates the conflict that broke out in 1902 surrounding the publication of Herzl's utopian vision, Altneuland. Ahad Ha'am, a leader of Hibbat Zion and 'Eastern' cultural Zionism, sharply attacked Herzl's 'We…
Between ethnic and civic
This article addresses two basic issues of the Zionist vision: 1. Was the Jewish state planned as an ethnic or civic state? 2. What was the character of the Zionist vision? Was it a holistic utopian vision, or a minimalist vision for creating a Jewish national state? This research concludes that the state of Israel, which developed from a nationalist ethnic-cultural movement, integrated within it ethnic values as well as Western civic values. The…
Zionist Awareness of the Jewish Past
Since the 1980s, the question of how nations are formed has been the topic of historiographic debate: is it correct to define nation‐building in terms of inventing traditions, or is the ethnic‐symbolic viewpoint more useful in understanding the process of development of the nation‐state? This debate is also reflected in research on J ewish nationalism. In this article, I will examine this issue in relation to the Z ionist movement, focusing on se…
Searching for a Homeland
This article addresses the relationship between territorial borders and ethnic boundaries in the Z ionist movement. Beginning with the Sixth Z ionist Congress in 1903, the distinction between these two components of the Z ionist movement rose to the forefront of the Z ionist consciousness. The argument over the U ganda proposal revealed the differing preferences of political and practical Z ionism. But this argument, which ended with the rejectio…
State or D iaspora
This study addresses the writing of J ewish history as a form of national belonging in I srael and in the D iaspora. S imon D ubnow laid the foundation for J ewish national historiography in the beginning of the twentieth century. Beginning in the 1920s, Zionist historians in Palestine emphasized the centrality of the Land of I srael in J ewish history, while J ewish historians in the D iaspora preferred an elliptical model, which recognized two …
The cultural origins of Jewish nationalism
This article offers a new perspective on the early stages of Zionism, adopting the ethno‐symbolic approach to the study of nationalism. Scholars who follow this approach assert that in order to achieve a complete understanding of nationalism, we must address its cultural pre‐modern dimension. I argue that in the case study of Jewish nationalism presented here, this approach offers us a more nuanced understanding of early Zionism. First, the artic…
Utopian imagination in the Zionist movement
This article examines the last utopian novel of early Zionist thought and literature. The utopia Jerusalem Rebuilt was written after the First World War and published in the mid-1920s by Boris Schatz. This work combined artistic utopian vision and Jewish nationalism, and it reflected the early Zionist vision at the turn of the twentieth century. This article discusses Schatz’s work against the backdrop of Zionist utopian literature that was writt…
Zionism and the Hebrew Bible
The Bible’s central position in the Zionist movement is well-known. Most previous studies on this topic have focused on Israeli society following the establishment of the State of Israel. By contrast, this article focuses on the role of the Hebrew Bible in Jewish nationalism and early Zionist thought from the 1880s to 1948. This article examines the connection between Zionism and the Bible in the context of modern nationalism research from a cult…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Zionism (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · History (7 works) · History (7 works) · Judaism (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Nationalism (7 works)