This interdisciplinary volume, containing eleven detailed studies, probes diverse aspects of how Jewish nationalism has worked in theory and practice–and at times been fiercely resisted–from the inception of Zionism in the late nineteenth century to the present. With contributions by Aviel Roshwald, Philip Bohlman, Derek Penslar, Barbara Mann, Nachman Ben-Yehuda, James Renton, Joshua Shanes, Michael Loewy, John M. Efron, Delphine Bechtel, Francois Guesnet, Inka Bertz, and Richard A. Freund.