Peter Bergamin)’s, new book, The Making of the Israeli Far-Right: Abba Ahimeir and Zionist Ideology) (I. B. Tauris, 2019), is an intellectual biography of one of the most important propagators of the Maximalist Revisionist stream in Zionism ideology. The book positions Ahimeir within the contexts of the Israeli right and the Zionist movement in general, and corrects some common misunderstandings surrounding the man and his ideology.
Yaacov Yadgar)* is the Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford. His most recent book is Sovereign Jews: Israel, Zionism and Judaism (SUNY Press, 2017)). You can read more of Yadgar’s work here).*
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