"This edition is a substantially revised translation of Israel: Traum und Wirklichkeit des Jèudischen Staates by Michale Brenner, Ã Verlag C.H. Beck oHG, Munchen 2016"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-348) and index.

The five seasons of 1897 : shaping the Jewish future -- Winter in Berlin -- Spring in Vienna -- Summer in Basel -- Fall in Vilna -- Winter in Odessa -- The seven-hour-land : a light unto the nations -- Utopian ideals -- Hebrew revival -- Socialist dreams -- Orthodox reservations -- The national home : a state in the making? -- The autonomy solution -- The one-state solution -- The two-state solution -- The elsewhere solution -- Original Israel : a state defining itself -- What is a Jewish state? -- Who is a Jew in the Jewish state? -- Where is the new Canaan? -- Greater Israel : a state expanding -- Seventh day realities -- Messianic visions -- Apocalyptic nightmares -- Peace illusions -- Global Israel : a state beyond borders -- Israel abroad -- Israel imagined -- Israel lost and found -- Conclusion : Israel's new order.