Zionism: The Tablet Guide

The definitive guide to the past, present, and future of modern Judaism’s most fantastical and magnetic idea—and the West’s most explosive political label. From primary essays by Zionism’s utopian founders to interviews with modern political leaders and critics, this essential volume, published on the 75th anniversary of the creation of the State of Israel, animates the currents and contradictions of an idea that both frightens and fascinates Jews and outsiders alike. Featuring an introduction by Tablet Editor-at-Large Liel Leibovitz and contributions from Ze’ev Jabotinsky, Shimon Peres, Noam Chomsky, George Steiner, Walter Russell Mead, Michael Walzer, Howard Jacobson, Matti Friedman, Dara Horn, Einat Wilf, and others, this historical anthology deserves a place on the bookshelf of every politically interested person, Jewish or not.