Foreword by David Biale
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I The books Hazon Zion and Kol ha-Tor and the Rivlinian myth
1.Hazon Zion, a Messianic Zionist movement
2.The main ideas of Kol ha-Tor
3.Does Kol ha-Tor express a Messianic Zionist doctrine held by the Vilna Gaon
PART II The Vilna Gaon and his disciples as the first Zionists: The evolution of a myth
4.Why did the disciples of the Vilna Gaon immigrate to the Land of Israel?
5.How did the Rivlinian myth take form?
6.Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kasher's Ha-Tkufah ha-Gdolah
7.The academic version of the Rivlinian myth
8.Did Shlomo Zalman Rivlin receive the text of Kol ha-Tor from Yitzhak Zvi Rivlin?
PART III Additional writings by Shlomo Zalman Rivlin
9.Mossad ha-Yesod: The Old Yishuv recast as the beginnings of Zionism
10.Midrash Shlomo and the Department for Training Young Orators
11.Ha-Maggid Doresh Zion: Rabbi Moshe Rivlin as a "Zionist" leader
12.Sefer ha-Pizmonim: Yosef Yosha Rivlin as a "Messianic Zionist visionary
PART IV The creation of Kol ha-Tor
13.Who was the author of Kol ha-Tor?
14.Shlomo Zalman Rivlin: The man and his literary motives
15.The embrace of the Rivlinian myth and Kol ha-Tor in Religious Zionist circles
Conclusion
Appendix: Rivlin family members
Notes
Bibliography
Index