Ahad Ha'Am: The Prophet of Zionism

Chaps 1-4: The early years, from childhood to early manhood. Life in a village in the Ukraine. Transformation from Hassidism to modern enlightenment (1856-86).Chaps 5-7: Move to Odessa and start of career as a political leader in Hovevei Tzion. Publication of his manifesto of Cultural Zionism, as an antithesis to the ideology of Hovevei Tzion at that time (1887-91).Chaps 8-10: The emergence of Ahad Ha'am as the political and ideological leader of the Hovevei Tzion movement (1892-6).Chaps 11-13: Herzl's dominance reduces the political power of Ahad Ha'am, who becomes spiritual leader of Jewish national intellectuals through his editorship of the journal Ha-Shiloach (1896-1901).Chaps 12-16: Decline of Ahad Ha'am's significance as a spiritual, intellectual and political leader (1902-7).Chaps 17-19: In London as a clerk in the office of the Wissotsky Company. Return of Ahad Ha'am to the centre of the Zionist political scene as a result of Weizmann's confidence in him as a visionary leader (1908-21).Chap. 20: Ahad Ha'am in Tel Aviv, and the honour paid to him in the last days of his life (1922-7).Chap. 21: A retrospective view: Ahad Ha'am as a Zionist prophet?