future image of the Jewish people as envisaged by the ideologues of early Zionism

Traces the evolution of Zionism from its original "Thinkers" through to the multi-hyphenated Zionism:socialist, religious, liberal Zionism and so forth leading to a loss of clarity of vision and purpose.Not one of those different schools succeeded in either imposing their authority on its rivals nor persuade them of its version being fully practicable and viable for the majority of Jews.What really bound the Zionists together was their "revolutionary" reasons characterised by its opposition to the status quo.