Introduction Chapter 1: Zionism's emergence from Germany's Jewish experiences. -Jews in German culture and Bildung -Rising German antisemitism -The German-Jewish identity crisis -German colonisation as a model for Zionists Chapter 2: Race science in Germany and Zionism -The Jewish divide: East and West -Racial muscles: German and Jewish youth movements. -Racial thinking in Germany -The racial imagination of German Jews - Jews against racial thinking -Zionist racial nationalism The Wandervogel ideology Chapter 3: Max Nordau: Muscular Judaism Against Degeneration -Max Nordau: A biographical sketch -Nordau's Pre-Zionist period and the discourse of degeneration. -Nordau and Zionism: Herzl's most significant convert. -Crafting the public image of Zionism. -Max Nordau: prophet of racial Zionism -Muscular Judaism -Max Nordau: Bedrock at Zionist congresses. Chapter 4: Arthur Ruppin: 'A Return to the Soil' -Ruppin's early life and self-image -Ruppin the racialist and eugenicist -On the road to Zionism. -From Posen to Palestine: Ruppin and the Palestine Office ( Palästinaamt ) 1908 -Father of Jewish settlement in Palestine: German colonialism and Palestine settlement strategies.

Ruppin's land purchasing strategy/Arab policy Chapter 5: Ephraim Lilien and the Iconography of Zionism: 'Propaganda in Great Style' -Martin Buber's influence: Cultural Zionism and a programme for 'rebirth' and' regeneration.' The mission of Ost und West (1901-1922) The birth of Zionist art at the Fifth Zionist Congress (1901) -Ephraim Lilien, Jugendstil and Palestine. -Establishing the Bezalel School of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem (1903) - Art and propaganda The Jewish National Fund as a vehicle for the new Zionist art Exposition and pavilion iconography: representing "Jewish" Palestine -From Muskleljude to Sabra.