Dmitry Shumsky is Associate Professor and Israel Goldstein Chair in the History of Zionism and the New Yishuv at the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Director of its Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel.
Honorable mention for the Shapiro Award, sponsored by
the Association for Israel Studies
Received special mention for the 2019 Ab Imperio Award,
sponsored by Ab Imperio Quarterly
“A must-read for scholars in the field, this is a brilliant,
trenchant critique of current dominant interpretations of the
Zionist movement and the birth of the state of Israel.”—Alon
Confino, author of A World Without Jews
“This provocative study disrupts the uncontested link between
Zionism and statism. It will no doubt ignite important popular and
scholarly debates about the past, present, and future significance
of Zionism and the state of Israel.”—Noam Pianko, University of
Washington
“Beyond the Nation State brilliantly situates Zionism in the
context of early twentieth‑century European political theory and
global debates over minority rights. This is a must-read for all
students of modern Jewish politics.”—Eliyahu Stern, Yale
University
“Dmitry Shumsky’s recovery of pre‑WWI Zionist aspirations for Jews
to live as autonomous nations in multinational imperial states is
revelatory. His analysis is exquisite—offering hope that a deeper
understanding of Zionism could liberate Israeli Jews searching for
a way to live in a binational society.”—Ian Lustick, University of
Pennsylvania
“With daring and verve, Dmitry Shumsky challenges the claim that
political Zionism meant a mono-ethnic nation-state. In his bold
retelling, Shumsky offers a fascinating alternative to Arthur
Hertzberg’s classic The Zionist Idea.”—David N. Myers, University
of California, Los Angeles
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