The State of Israel in Jewish Public Thought: The Quest for Collective Identity

Yosef Gorny

1994

At the same time, let it be pointed out that this call for a new Hibbat Zion is directed towards the idea rather than the movement, since the historical Hibbat Zion was a movement which failed and an idea which triumphed. It failed because it did not produce from its midst a national leadership, failed to unite Jews of Eastern and Western Europe in…

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Yosef Gorny

b. 1933

Yosef Gorny is a researcher of Jewish history. Born in Poland, he came to Palestine at the age of four. Gorny is a professor emeritus of the School of Jewish Studies and head of the Institute of Jewish Media and Communications Research at Tel Aviv University. He received the Bialik Prize for Jewish philosophy in 2006.

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