Zionism the German Empire and Africa explores the impact on the self-perception and culture
of early Zionism of contemporary constructions of racial difference and of the experience of
colonialism in imperial Germany. More specifically interrogating in a comparative analysis
material ranging from mainstream satirical magazines and cartoons to literary aesthetic and
journalistic texts advertisements postcards and photographs monuments and campaign medals
ethnographic exhibitions and publications popular entertainment political speeches and
parliamentary reports the book situates the short-lived but influential Zionist satirical
magazine Schlemiel (1903¿07) in an extensive network of nodal clusters of varying and shifting
significance and with differently developed strains of cohesion or juncture that roughly
encompasses the three decades from 1890 to 1920.
