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by Michaеl Stanislawski (Author), Nastasya Vahtina (Translator)
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Zionism is one of the most controversial ideologies in the world. Its supporters laud its success at liberating the Jewish people after millennia of persecution and at securing the creation of Israel. But to its opponents, Zionism relies on a racist ideology culminating in Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and is one of the last manifestations of colonial oppression in the world. Michael Stanislawski presents an impartial and disinterested history of Zionist ideology from its origins to the present. Stanislawski's balanced analysis illuminates why, despite the undeniable success in its goal of creating a Jewish state, profound questions remain today about the long-term viability of Zionist ideology in a rapidly destabilizing Middle East.
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Сионизм - одна из самых противоречивых идеологий в мире. Сторонники восхваляют его успех в создании Израиля и освбождении еврейского народа после тысячелетних преследований. А противники считают, что сионизм опирается на расистскую идеологию, которая привела к израильской оккупации палестинских территорий, и является одним из проявлений колониального угнетения в мире. Майкл Станиславски рассказывает историю сионистской идеологии от ее истоков до наших дней. Его беспристрастный, взвешенный анализ показывает, почем
Author Biography
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Michael Stanislawski is the Nathan J. Miller Professor of Jewish History in the Department of History, and Director Emeritus of The Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies, at Columbia University. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Harvard, and specializes in Jewish, European intellectual, and Russian history, and in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. His most recent book, Zionism: A Very Short History was published in 2016 by Oxford University Press. His other publications include Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews (1983), For Whom do I Toil: Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry (1986), Psalms for the Tsar (1986), Zionism and the Fin-de Siècle (2001), Autobiographical Jews (2005), and A Murder in Lemberg: Politics, Religion, and Violence in Modern Jewish History (2007), Hebrew translation 201 . He is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Israel Supreme Court Project at Cardozo Law School, and has served as a visiting professor of law at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and the Reichman University (formerly The Interdisciplinary Center) Faculty of Law, as well as the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Cape Town and the Jewish Studies Program of the Central European University, formerly of Budapest.
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Майкл Станиславски -- профессор еврейской истории им. Натана Дж. Миллера, почетный директор Института изучения Израиля и еврейства Колумбийского университета. Член Академического консультативного совета Проекта Верховного суда Израиля при Школе права Кардозо, приглашенный профессор права на юридическом факультете Тель- Авивского университета и юридическом факультете Университета Райхмана, а также в Центре еврейских исследований Кейптаунского университета и на программе еврейских исследований Центрально- Европейского университета. Автор книг Tsar Nicholas I and the Jews (1983), For Whom do I Toil: Judah Leib Gordon and the Crisis of Russian Jewry (1986), Psalms for the Tsar (1986), Zionism and the Fin-de Siècle (2001), Autobiographical Jews (2005) и A Murder in Lemberg: Politics, Religion, and Violence in Modern Jewish History (2007).
