Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I The books Hazon Zion and Kol ha-Tor and the Rivlinian myth
7. 1 Hazon Zion, a Messianic Zionist movement 11
8. 2 The main ideas of Kol ha-Tor 18
9. 3 Does Kol ha-Tor express a Messianic Zionist doctrine held by the Vilna Gaon? 21
10. PART II The Vilna Gaon and his disciples as the first Zionists: The evolution of a myth
11. 4 Why did the disciples of the Vilna Gaon immigrate to the Land of Israel? 29
12. 5 How did the Rivlinian myth take form? 38
13. 6 Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kasher’s Ha-Tkufah ha-Gdolah 47
14. 7 The academic version of the Rivlinian myth 50
15. 8 Did Shlomo Zalman Rivlin receive the text of Kol ha-Tor from Yitzhak Zvi Rivlin? 68
16. PART III Additional writings by Shlomo Zalman Rivlin
17. 9 Mossad ha-Yesod: The Old Yishuv recast as the beginnings of Zionism 75
18. 10 Midrash Shlomo and the Department for Training Young Orators 96
19. 11 Ha-Maggid Doresh Zion: Rabbi Moshe Rivlin as a “Zionist” leader 106
20. 12 Sefer ha-Pizmonim: Yosef Yosha Rivlin as a “Messianic Zionist visionary” 121
21. PART IV The creation of Kol ha-Tor
22. 13 Who was the author of Kol ha-Tor? 143
23. 14 Shlomo Zalman Rivlin: The man and his literary motives 154
24. 15 The embrace of the Rivlinian myth and Kol ha-Tor in Religious Zionist circles 164
25. Conclusion 179
26. APPENDIX Rivlin family members 183
27. Notes 187
28. Bibliography 209
29. Index of Names 217