Preface Glossary Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. Ideas and the course of history 2. Israeli society and politics before Independence 3. A remarkable and terrible decade Part II. Appearances and Reality: 4. The political world of the founding fathers 5. The vicissitudes of hegemony 6. The revolutionary maximalists 7. The reluctant vanguard 8. The lost avant-garde 9. The Communists - in captivity Part III. The Fallacies of Realpolitik: 10. Jabotinsky and the Revisionist tradition 11. The revolt 12. The mysticism of realism Part IV. Sectarian Interests and a Facade of Generality: 13. The General Zionists 14. The farmers and the Sephardi notables Part V. God's Dispositions: 15. Religious natlionalism 16. Religious orthodoxy and the cult of separateness Part VI. The Boundaries of the Intelligentsia: 17. Canaanites and Semites 18. Magnes, Buber and Ihud (Unity) 19. The divided heritage: Israel's diplomatic tradition Notes Index.
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