In the Shadow of Zion – Promised Lands Before Israel Rovner Hardback

In the Shadow of ZionPromised Lands Before Israel\nAuthor(s): Adam L. Rovner\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479817481, 978-1479817481\nSynopsis\nFrom the late nineteenth century through the post-Holocaust\n era, the world was divided between countries that tried to expel their Jewish\n populations and those that refused to let them in. The plight of these\n traumatized refugees inspired numerous proposals for Jewish states. Jews and\n Christians, authors and adventurers, politicians and playwrights, and rabbis\n and revolutionaries all worked to carve out autonomous Jewish territories in\n remote and often hostile locations across the globe. The would-be founding\n fathers of these imaginary Zions dispatched scientific expeditions to far-flung\n regions and filed reports on the dream states they planned to create. But only\n Israel emerged from dream to reality. Israel's successful foundation ha]