THE REVIVAL OF ISRAEL Important as the first book to give theoretical expression to Zionism, "The Revival of Israel" was originally published in 1862. The scholar Melvin I. Urofsky notes that it 'laid down nearly all of the premises and proposals' that Theodore Herzl, founder of the modern political Zionist movement, would popularize four decades author, Moses Hess (1812-1875), was a German socialist who brought his revolutionary zeal to the preaching of Jewish nationalism. …