Itamar Ben Avi. Palestinism. Moulding a Common Country for Two Brother Peoples.
Auction 92 |
Thursday, February 18th,
2021 at 1:00pm
Fine Judaica: Rare Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Arts
Lot 240
(ZIONISM).
Itamar Ben Avi. Palestinism. Moulding a Common Country for Two Brother Peoples.
Jerusalem: Hasolel Press 1929
Est: $200 - $300
PRICE REALIZED $275
Itamar Ben-Avi, the son of Eliezer Ben Yehudah (the surname, AV"I, is an acronym for “Eliezer Ben Yehudah”) took his father's pioneering linguistic efforts in an entirely different direction - (or perhaps it was but the logical outcome of Ben Yehudah's radicalism). Ben-Avi defined Zionism as the longing for Zion, hence as he himself was born in Zion, he regarded himself no longer a Zionist per se, but rather a Palestinian. Thus he advocated that the ideal of Zionism be transmuted into that of "Palestinism," namely the development of a bi-national Arab-Jewish state for all native inhabitants of Palestine, partitioned into Jewish and Arab cantons.
In the present time, in what is for some, the "post-Zionist era," many will see this as a visionary tract.