Israeli historians

Are primary historians of Zionism amateurs in general? Zionist activists given the wide range of activities in the field of Zionism advertising began writing books that the activists turned to historians. So Nahum Sokoloph, Adolf Beyhem and Isaac Grown Baum wrote comparative histories of Zionism in the 1920 followed by Richard Likht Hayem, the prominent Israeli diplomat who became the first German historian of Zionism. Few professional historians in the field of history of the Zionists such as N. M. Gilber also chose the history of the movement for research and study, although their study did not provide satisfaction of researchers to formalize these measures at that time.
Has the history of the Zionist originated from movement? Political success was significantly effective in obtaining the Balfour Declaration. This declaration and subsequent success of the Zionist delegation at the Versailles Peace Conference put Zionism on the international map and result in its historical validity. Sokoloph wrote a two-volume history of Zionism for the English readers who were into new things. Its forward was written by Lord Balfour and he had emphasized on Zionist conflicts against Jews opposition movements in this paper. Balfour stressed that Jews need a national homeland and the country can only be established.
Sokoloph was considered the first new press and Judaism and Zionism have never seen more prominent journalist than him. According to Wiseman, his journal named Sapphira is in level of European magazines in terms of content and technics. He was active in the first Zionist Congress in 1897, and after that he turned the Sapphira press into the official organ of the Zionists. Tel Aviv Name was one of his the innovations inspired by the Zionist story of Herzl "Old New Land" and it was admitted as the first Jewish city after the occupation of Palestine. His support for Herzl and his ideas continued till Herzl's death. In 1905, he and several others' attempts to compile the first encyclopedia in Hebrew failed, and in 1906, he was responsible to invite David Wolfson, general secretary of the World Zionist Organization. Since then, his life was linked with the Zionist movement.
His first step in this position was the establishment of formal Hebrew weekly "Hayulam" which was known as the official organ of the World Zionist Organization and was published after the establishment of the State of Israel.
According to Sokoloph's books, the history of Zionism began with the return of the Jews to England in the mid-seventeenth century, and Rabbi Menashe Ben Israel was the person who encouraged it.
Sokoloph knows its end in 1918 following the end of World War I. He was faithful to the spirit of Jewish - British Coalition hidden in the Balfour Declaration, and he concluded that the origins of Zionism were primarily English and comes from the Gospel and its language is seen like it can be seen in English literature, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, Shelley Vebranyng, to George Eliot.
Sokoloph dedicated a major part of his periodic studies to interest in England in the Holy Land and Anglo-Saxon world resulting in the Jews resurrection to their homeland. This ancient idea, according to writings he gave to the readers, was later spread from Great Britain to France. In the 19th century, the idea was like small-scale form of dangerous colonial ideas that like some characters, such as the Museum of Monte Fiore and Adolphe Crémieux joined together. Jewish resurrection and connecting it to an ancient land turned into beginning of migration and colonization of the land by National goal. The idea attracted Jewish millionaires such as Baron Edmond de Rothschild and Baron Maurice Dohyresh .
Sokoloph considered Herzl's Zionism as a new Zionism and devoted ten percent of his first books to it. This issue linked with general historical background of Herzl's diplomatic efforts as well as the decline of the Ottoman Empire and Great Britain's policy in the Middle East. The second volume of Sokoloph's book mainly terminated in diplomatic activities and the Zionist lobby, which led to the Balfour Declaration; of course, by emphasizing and highlighting the message of legal validity of the Zionist idea and political reforms of it.
A few months after the publication of Sokoloph's book in London in 1919, the first volume of Beyhem was published by title of "the Zionist movement" in Berlin involving the history of the Zionist movement till Herzl's death. The second volume was published in 1921. The book was an overview of a decade from Herzl's death until the beginning of World War I, and it is an introduction about world war I years and Peace Conference, Beyhem's historical perspective towards Zionism \ quite different from Sokoloph. So that he considered roots related to the gospel of Jesus Christ coming and believing in promises that constituted the main part of the book of Sokoloph unimportant and tried to make legal status that constituted the basis of Sokoloph's research. Apart from that, he examined famous Balfour declaration to Lord Rothschild based on the idea that communication will enhance the study of German readers about Zionism. In addition, according to him, this matter put Zionist movement in the German camp. Beyhem in examining the facts of Jewish life in the nineteenth century by examining some economic, social and cultural factors and indicators in the light of modernization and separation and segregation between Jewish communities in West and East Europe, emphasized the point that Zionism basically had caused internal extension of the Jews. He focused on the growth of this movement, and counted its structural strength in the institutions and parties, Zionist ideology and intellectuals' interests, Hebrew culture, and some controversies among Jews outside Palestine.
In Sokoloph's idea, Zionist leader and spokesman who later managed the World Zionist Organization (1931-1935), the idea of Zionism is located in the heart of Zionist history.
In point of view of Beyhem turning point in Zionist history was its movement, institutions and performance. Shared vision of both the historians legalized the search for political and legal legitimacy. Sokoloph led this search globally and Beyhem led it among the Jewish people. In addition to defending Zionism against its opponents and critics, Zionist historians throughout the 1920s and 1930s were in an effort to gain legitimacy for local Jewish communities and recognition of the Jews internationally. Apart from Sokoloph's attempt to identify the origins of Zionism in the 17th century in England, N.M. Gilbbr discovered that the idea of the resurrection of Jews in Germany, France and Denmark can be seen. His continued the idea of Judaism growth with the idea of the 19th century of Europeans on the question of Palestine of the Jews from Congress of Vienna in 1815 till the Congress of Berlin in 1878.
Sokoloph published HIBBATZION book in 1934. The book reflects similar ideas before Zionism and love of Zion from George Eliot and Benjamin Disraeli and Moses Hess and Rabbi Zoë Hirsch Kalyscher Talyopnsker, Ahad Ahaam, Baron Rothschild, and Rabbi Samuel Mohylver. The second volume of HIBBATZION was almost like the first volume. This book which was written later by Ben Zion Dinaberg Dinawar, described the development of Lovers of Zion movement in Russia after plans of 1881 in Russia. Dinawar published three books based on original documents published by Publications Abraham Daryanof, a Jewish publication in Russian. Apart from that, the documents were collected in Jerusalem by the Jewish National Library in the form of diaries and private letters and notes
Dinawar considered love to Zion as an old idea remaining during the time. However, the issue was result of disappointing Jews from the political responses of Russian government that after the liberal reforms of Tsar, Alexander II, was assassinated in 1881. Dinawar considered Zionism as a domestic force of Jewish history. In future studies, he analyzed the early roots of the phenomenon of Zionism and in the paper he set Zionism in format of new Jewish history. Event-recording themes and structure of Dinawar were quite different from primary historians such as Leyopoldzones, Heinrich Gerets and Simon Dobnu who had written a comprehensive history of the Jews. Jewish historians and founder of Jerusalem school in Jewish history suggested a new unifying power in Jewish history in Palestine. According to Dinawar opinions the continuation of this trajectory from ancient times inspired the rules of Zionism and subsequently resulted in the main force for Jewish history from the middle Ages to the modern era.
Both Jewish historians, Sokoloph and Dinawar know the beginning of Zionism in a few centuries ago and one of religious disapprovals of the two Zionist historians is at this point. Sokoloph knows it at half of the seventeenth century in England and Dinawar knows it in 1700 and immigration of Rabbi Judas and his followers to Israel (Palestine) as start of a new era in the history of the Jewish nation.
It is worth noting that Dinawar based on his own way distinguishes the history of the Zionist movement in the Diaspora and history of Zionism in the period before the establishment of the State of Israel (or Byshvu). With this issue, he puts his emphasis from ideology and Zionism organization in period of distribution to fact of Zionism in Palestine.
Kurt Navratzky and Arthur Rupyn, pioneers of books on Zionists agricultural colonization history in Palestine, have taken some steps in this regard as well. Later, Alexander Baines start writing in the same field. The early writings in order to convince readers stressed that the presence of Jews in Palestine has had great importance in the development of Palestine in agricultural, economic, social and political terms. The first Agriculture books published in the 1930s and 1940s and the books published to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first kibbutz and Mushavim were by the same goal.
Attracting immigrants from Central Europe in 1930, beyond agriculture, expanded the motivation to build a state of the Jews in order to make the history. Thus, in addition to historians, many economists started writing economic history. Alfred Boone, David Hurwitz, and Abraham Aulitenror began to introduce the economic attractions of the Palestine and the role of the Zionists in the development of their country. Although these books were written in support of the Zionists' arguments in relation to Palestine, at the same time, they established the foundation of the Zionist economic historian which was later expanded by Nahum Gross and others.