Lichtenstein, Tatjana: Zionists in Interwar Czechoslovakia: Minority Nationalism and the Politics of Belonging.

Lichtenstein’s book does a lot more than its title promises. Rather than telling
an organizational history of Zionism in the first Czechoslovak Republic, she
offers a new perspective and suggests new interpretations of Zionism itself, as
a Jewish national movement largely focused on nation building in the country,
rather than in Palestine. In this regard, the book does not only relate to similar
studies of Zionism (e.g. Shanes 2012), but it is also situated in the wider context
of studies of nationalism in Central Europe (e.g. Judson 2006; Zahra 2008). The
author discusses how Zionists worked to create a Jewish nation in interwar
Czechoslovakia, how national feelings and identifications were communicat-
ed, and how the movement and its ideas were built from bottom up.