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Modernism and Zionism
by Palgrave Connect (Online service), Ohana, David
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Building new mythologies was a main project in the emergence of national movements in the modern era. The Zionist project was part of the modern enterprise, and it represented the Promethean passion of Western man; it sought to establish a political reality in the image of the n…