In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel

Dr. Adam Rovner, an Associate Professor of English and Jewish Literature at the University of Denver in the United States, recently had his book In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands before Israel published by New York University Press. Dr. Rovner speaks to host Gilad Halpern about the step-siblings of Zionism – six different attempts to establish a Jewish political entity in the 19th and 20th centuries – and why they all failed.

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1 comment on “In the Shadow of Zion: Promised Lands Before Israel

  1. dr. abraham Weizfeld says:

    Why is not the Autonomous Republic of Birobidjan of 1926 not mentioned,, notwithstanding the revulsion with the Stalinist dictatorship.

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