{"product_id":"9781479817481","title":"In the Shadow of Zion","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the late nineteenth century through the post-Holocaust  era, the world was divided between countries that tried to expel their Jewish  populations and those that refused to let them in. The plight of these  traumatized refugees inspired numerous proposals for Jewish states. Jews and  Christians, authors and adventurers, politicians and playwrights, and rabbis  and revolutionaries all worked to carve out autonomous Jewish territories in  remote and often hostile locations across the globe. The would-be founding  fathers of these imaginary Zions dispatched scientific expeditions to far-flung  regions and filed reports on the dream states they planned to create. But only  Israel emerged from dream to reality. Israel's successful foundation has long  obscured the fact that eminent Jewish figures, including Zionism's prophet,  Theodor Herzl, seriously considered establishing enclaves beyond the Middle  East.         In the Shadow of Zion brings to life the amazing true  stories of six exotic visions of a Jewish national home outside of the biblical  land of Israel. It is the only book to detail the connections between these  schemes, which in turn explain the trajectory of modern Zionism. A gripping  narrative drawn from archives the world over, In the Shadow of Zion  recovers the mostly forgotten history of the Jewish territorialist movement,  and the stories of the fascinating but now obscure figures who championed it.             Provocative, thoroughly researched, and written to appeal to  a broad audience, In the Shadow of Zion  offers a timely perspective on Jewish power and powerlessness.       Visit the author's website: http:\/\/www.adamrovner.com\/.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51185420140818,"sku":"9781479817481","price":65.73,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/3093\/4173\/files\/9781479817481.jpg?v=1774735734","url":"https:\/\/bargainbooks.com.au\/products\/9781479817481","provider":"Bargain Books Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}