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פסיכוהיסטוריה של הציונות A Psychohistory of Zionism Paperback – 1975 by Jay Y Gonen - A PSYCHOHISTORY OF ZIONISM Zionism as a driving historical force and Israel as a challenging contemporary reality are the twin focuses of this major new study. Using the insights of modern psychoanalysis as well as rich knowledge of Jewish history and culture, the author breaks new ground in his exploration of the roots of Zionism in Jewish consciousness through two thousand years of exile, persecution and struggle. He shows how the structure of the Jewish religion and family life, with its crosscurrents of pride and guilt, love and anger, helped give Zionism its extraordinary appeal, as did the necessity of preserving Jewish identity despite anti-Semitism and assimilation. With unusual objectivity and depth, the book goes on to examine closely the Israel that Zionism created, and the new nation's complex, often ambivalent relationship with traditional Jewish mentality and morality. More dramatically than any other nation in human history, Israel represents a dream come true, a vital desire fulfilled, and this book offers bold and invaluable understanding of this unique phenomenon that has come to affect so greatly-positively and negatively the entire world today. - אנגלית - 374 ע' - מצב משומש