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100 1 _aRovner, Adam,
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245 1 0 _aIn the shadow of Zion :
_bpromised lands before Israel /
_cAdam Rovner.
260 _aNew York :
_bNYU Press,
_c(c)2014.
300 _a1 online resource
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520 0 _a"From the late nineteenth century through the post-Holocaust era, the world was divided between countries that tried to expel their Jewish populations and those that refused to let them in. The plight of these traumatized refugees inspired numerous proposals for Jewish states. Jews and Christians, authors and adventurers, politicians and playwrights, and rabbis and revolutionaries all worked to carve out autonomous Jewish territories in remote and often hostile locations across the globe. The would-be founding fathers of these imaginary Zions dispatched scientific expeditions to far-flung regions and filed reports on the dream states they planned to create. But only Israel emerged from dream to reality. Israel's successful foundation has long obscured the fact that eminent Jewish figures, including Zionism's prophet, Theodor Herzl, seriously considered establishing enclaves beyond the Middle East. In the Shadow of Zion brings to life the amazing true stories of six exotic visions of a Jewish national home outside of the biblical land of Israel. It is the only book to detail the connections between these schemes, which in turn explain the trajectory of modern Zionism. A gripping narrative drawn from archives the world over, In the Shadow of Zion recovers the mostly forgotten history of the Jewish territorialist movement, and the stories of the fascinating but now obscure figures who championed it. Provocative, thoroughly researched, and written to appeal to a broad audience, In the Shadow of Zion offers a timely perspective on Jewish power and powerlessness"--
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505 0 0 _a""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: They Say There Is a Land . . .""; ""1. Noah�s Ark on the Niagara: Grand Island, New York (1818�1848)""; ""2. Greetings from the Promised Land: Uasin Gishu, East Africa (1903�1905)""; ""3. Angolan Zion: Benguela Plateau (1907�1914)""; ""4. The Lost Jewish Continent: Madagascar (1933�1942)""; ""5. New Jerusalem, Down Under: Port Davey, Tasmania (1940�1945)""; ""6. Welcome to the Jungle: Suriname (1938�1948)""; ""Epilogue: Go to Uganda""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""
505 0 0 _a""E""""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""; ""About the Author""
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650 0 _aJewish diaspora
_xHistory
_y19th century.
650 0 _aJewish diaspora
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aJews
_xMigrations.
650 0 _aJews
_xHistory.
650 0 _aJews
_xIdentity.
650 0 _aZionism
_xInfluence.
655 1 _aElectronic Books.
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_bCynthia Snell
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_dCynthia Snell