In 73 A.D., legend has it, 960 Jewish rebels under siege in the ancient desert fortress of Masada committed suicide rather than surrender to a Roman legion. Recorded in only one historical source, the story of Masada was obscure for centuries. In The Masada Myth, Israeli sociolo…
In 73 A.D., legend has it, 960 Jewish rebels under siege in the ancient desert fortress of Masada committed suicide rather than surrender to a Roman legion. Recorded in only one historical source, the story of Masada was obscure for centuries. In The Masada Myth, Israeli sociolo…
Traces the relationship between the international socialist movement and the Zionist labor movement (Poalei Zion, Ahdut ha-Avodah). Since Marx, the socialist movement held that antisemitism would disappear with the assimilation of the Jews in advanced capitalist society and in t…