{"product_id":"in-the-shadow-of-zion-2","title":"In the Shadow of Zion","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the late nineteenth century through the post-Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e\nera, the world was divided between countries that tried to expel their Jewish\u003cbr\u003e\npopulations and those that refused to let them in. The plight of these\u003cbr\u003e\ntraumatized refugees inspired numerous proposals for Jewish states. Jews and\u003cbr\u003e\nChristians, authors and adventurers, politicians and playwrights, and rabbis\u003cbr\u003e\nand revolutionaries all worked to carve out autonomous Jewish territories in\u003cbr\u003e\nremote and often hostile locations across the globe. The would-be founding\u003cbr\u003e\nfathers of these imaginary Zions dispatched scientific expeditions to far-flung\u003cbr\u003e\nregions and filed reports on the dream states they planned to create. But only\u003cbr\u003e\nIsrael emerged from dream to reality. Israel’s successful foundation has long\u003cbr\u003e\nobscured the fact that eminent Jewish figures, including Zionism’s prophet,\u003cbr\u003e\nTheodor Herzl, seriously considered establishing enclaves beyond the Middle\u003cbr\u003e\nEast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIn the Shadow of Zion brings to life the amazing true\u003cbr\u003e\nstories of six exotic visions of a Jewish national home outside of the biblical\u003cbr\u003e\nland of Israel. It is the only book to detail the connections between these\u003cbr\u003e\nschemes, which in turn explain the trajectory of modern Zionism. A gripping\u003cbr\u003e\nnarrative drawn from archives the world over, In the Shadow of Zion\u003cbr\u003e\nrecovers the mostly forgotten history of the Jewish territorialist movement,\u003cbr\u003e\nand the stories of the fascinating but now obscure figures who championed it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nProvocative, thoroughly researched, and written to appeal to\u003cbr\u003e\na broad audience, In the Shadow of Zion\u003cbr\u003e\noffers a timely perspective on Jewish power and powerlessness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nVisit the author's website: http:\/\/www.adamrovner.com\/.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Adam L. Rovner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573542191286,"sku":"9781479804573","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781479804573.jpg?v=1712138974","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/in-the-shadow-of-zion-2","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}