Western Jewry and the Zionist Project, 1914-1933

This is the first study of the Zionist movement in Germany, England and the United States which recognises 'western Zionism' as a distinctive force. It focuses upon images of Zionist leaders and Palestine, on tours of Palestine, youth a women's organisations, the First World War, and the rise of the Keren Hayesod (Palestine Foundation Fund). While Zionism was creative and successful at making its aims and views of the world a part of western Jewish life, Jews also lost faith in the movement on acvcount of its apparent mismanagement and obsession with fundraising.