Georges Bensoussan, historian, is notably the author of
An intellectual and political history of Zionism, 1860-1940
(Fayard, 2002) and of
Jews in Arab countries: the great uprooting 1850-1975
(Tallandier, 2012).
Why has the history of Zionism and Israel been swallowed up by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and lost sight of after decades of propaganda whose matrix, outside the "Arab world", was the Soviet Union of Stalin (“Zionism” as a charge against the defendants of the Communist trials, from Rajk in Budapest in 1949 to Slansky in Prague in 1952), and before her the Nazi Reich (Hitler sees in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, published in
1924
in Germany under the title
Zionist Protocols,
the report of the first Zionist congress held in Basle in 1897) and its auxiliaries?
In the Europe of the second half of the 19th century, Zionism first appeared as a response to the secularization of Jewish identity.
To the question of how to remain Jewish when one moves away from…
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