CONTENTS -- Principles and Concepts -- The Scholarly Literature -- The Influence of Jewish Religion on the Ethos and Way of Life of the Zionist State -- A Note on Terminology -- PART ONE The Land of Israel in Orthodox Jewish Thought -- I. THE LAND OF ISRAEL IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ORTHODOX JEWISH THOUGHT1 -- The Hatam Sofer -- Akiva Joseph Schlesinger: The Rejection of Modernity -- Zvi Hirsch Kalischer and His Theory of Zionism -- II. Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe -- The Controversy over Religious Reform -- Responses to "Supplements to -- Pines and Stern: Alike yet Different -- Yehuda Leib Gordon: An Anti-Traditional Polemicist -- The Etrog Controversy and the New Gemara -- III. THE LAND OF ISRAEL IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF Y. M. PINES -- Restoring a Society in Crisis -- The Holiness of the Land -- Attitude toward the Biluim -- Sacrifice and Dedication -- The Benei Moshe Controversy -- IV. THE CORFU CITRON CONTROVERSY (1875-1891) -- The Controversy over Corfu Etrogim -- Etrogim from the Land of Israel -- The Conflict Abates in Europe and the Land of Israel -- The Polemics during the 1880s -- The End of the Polemics and the Blood Libel in Corfu -- PART TWO From Support to Uncertainty in the Era of Hovevei Ziyyon -- V. ZIONISM AND ANTI-ZIONISM IN TRADITIONAL EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWRY -- The Heralds of Zionism -- Religious Zionism vs. Secular Zionism -- Hovevei Ziyyon -- The Shemittah Controversy -- The Schools in Jaffa -- Herzl and the Religious Zionists -- From the First Zionist Congress to the Fourth -- Varieties of German Orthodoxy -- Searching for a Way Out -- VI. Y. M. PINES-LEADER OF PALESTINE JEWRY -- In Old Yishuv Circles -- In New Yishuv Circles -- Return to the Old Yishuv -- VII. AHAD HA-AM AND BENEI MOSHE: AN "UNSUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT"? -- VIII. HASIDISM, THE LAND OF ISRAEL, AND ZIONISM -- Hasidism at the Time of Hibbat Ziyyon.

Galicia-Opposition from Mahziqei ha-Dat and Ahavat Ziyyon -- The Hasidic Stance toward Zionism in the Time of Herzl -- Summary -- PART THREE Orthodoxy and Political Zionism -- IX. Theodor Herzl and Orthodox Jewry -- Herzl's Principles -- Herzl's Utopia -- The Western European Rabbis: Güdemann, Adler, and Kahn -- The Orthodox Question at the Early Zionist Congresses -- The Mizrachi Movement -- X. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MIZRACHI MOVEMENT IN AMERICA -- Religious Zionists in America -- The Beginnings of Mizrachi in America -- Mizrachi and the Zionist Federation -- American Mizrachi's Principles -- Mizrachi's Use of the Book Shivat Ziyyon -- XI. THE LIDA YESHIVAH: A UNIQUE INSTITUTION OF HIGHER LEARNING -- PART FOUR The National State and Society: Transforming Religious Values into National Values -- XII. Messianism and Normalization in Secular Zionist Thought -- Messianism and Zionism -- Traditional Messianism -- Messianic Terminology in Secular Zionist Thought -- Criticism of Secular Messianism -- A Reaction: Religious Zionism -- XIII. "RENEW OUR DAYS AS OF OLD": A ZIONIST MYTH -- Myth and Utopia -- Zionist Myths -- XIV. RELIGION AND SECULARISM IN THE ZIONIST NATIONAL MOVEMENT -- Ideological Models -- The Reality: A National Way of Life -- PART FIVE Religious Zionism: A General Perspective -- XV. THE "NEW JEW" IN RELIGIOUS ZIONIST THOUGHT -- Introduction -- Total Utopia -- Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer -- Yehiel Mikhel Pines: Writer, Journalist, Activist -- Rabbi Samuel Mohilever: The Rabbi of Hovevei Ziyyon -- The Admor Rabbi Hayyim Israel Morgenstern of Pilow-Kotsk -- State and Nationalism in the Thought of Rabbi Hayyim Herschensohn: Between America and the Land of Israel -- The Teachings of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Hakohen Kook: The Unity of Opposites -- Rabbis Moses Avigdor Amiel and Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel -- Religious-Pioneering Bodies.

Was Religious Zionism Messianic? -- The New Jew and Redemption -- Summary -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.