Religious-Zionist historiography has at times attempted to emphasize
continuity, turning Abraham into the first Zionist and Nahmanides'
travel to the Holy Land into another landmark in the realization of the
religious-Zionist ideal. By contrast, this book approaches the creation
of the Mizrachi as a genuine revolution, when the religious and rabbinic
world entered institutionalized politics and, to some extent, assumed
the demands of modernity. This is the first study in English tracing the
course of religious-Zionism since the creation of the Mizrachi in 1902
until recent years, when traditional structures have changed or even
collapsed and the movement confronts a new horizon.